Motorcycle Consumer News tests of the 1998 model year YZF-R1 yielded a time of 2. 96 seconds and of 5. 93 seconds, a

; Motorcycle Consumer News 2004

Its supremacy over the ZX-11 was confirmed in April 2007 by Motorcycle Consumer News, although the speeds achieved were slightly lower and the margin was narrower.

* Scott Cochran, editor / owner of US Rider News, a motorcycle magazine which covers the United States ; author of Motorcycle Journeys Through the American South

Cycle World and Australian Motorcycle News magazine named it the best sportbike in the world.

** Australian Motorcycle News

Referred to throughout the sport as " Joey ", in 2005 he was voted the fifth greatest motorcycling icon ever by Motorcycle News.

Consulting and design engineer Phil Irving ( of Vincent Motorcycle fame ) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine.

He created the Britten Motorcycle Company in 1992 to produce revolutionary machines to his own design made of light materials and using engines he built himself, which became famous around the world.

A Feet First ( FF ) Motorcycle is a class of motorcycle design that seeks to look at the two-wheeled concept afresh, and create a new form of practical personal transport.

* P V Lamarque, " The design of cooling fins for Motorcycle Engines ", Report of the Automobile Research Committee, Institution of Automobile Engineers Magazine, March 1943 issue, and also in " The Institution of Automobile Engineers Proceedings, Session 1942-1943, pp 99-134 and 309-312.

He did however design the leather outfit worn by the main protagonist in the movie The Girl on a Motorcycle which influence the look portrayed in the Avengers.

Motorcycle safety concerns many aspects of vehicle and equipment design as well as operator skill and training that are unique to motorcycle riding.

The San Francisco Rod, Custom and Motorcycle Show annually gives the Joe Bailon Elegance Award for the visual appearance of the paint, interior, engine, design and suspension.

In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, he described the central character, thought to represent himself, as being far from a typical student ; he was interested in science as a goal in itself, rather than as a way to establish a career.

His difficult experiences as a student in a course taught by Richard McKeon were later described, thinly disguised, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

These parties were noted in some of Allen Ginsberg's poems and are also described in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, as well as Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs by Hunter S. Thompson and Freewheelin Frank, Secretary of the Hell's Angels by Frank Reynolds.

Motorcycle airbox, visible with the fuel tank removed. Motorcyclists and car enthusiasts use the term airbox for what might more properly be described as an air intake chamber.

* The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is held the first full week in August each year.

Motorcycle racing engines can use compression ratios as high as 14: 1, and it is not uncommon to find motorcycles with compression ratios above 12. 0: 1 designed for 86 or 87 octane fuel.

The company has developed a Motorcycle Pod that allows pilots to carry a street-legal motorcycle beneath their airplane.

Fort William is the home of the Scottish Six Day Motorcycle Trial ( SSDT ), held annually in the first full week of May.

* Tom Skerritt ( credited as " M. Borman ") as Motorcycle Officer

* T. McEwen junior, Scottish Motorcycle Speed Champion, the championships held on the West Sands, St Andrews on Saturday.

Motorcycle sport is a broad field that encompasses all sporting aspects of motorcycling.

Motorcycle racing ( also known as Moto racing and Bike racing ) is a motorcycle sport involving racing motorcycles.

Motorcycle racing can be divided into two categories, tarmac-based road disciplines and off road.

Motorcycle Polo first began officially in the mid 1930s.

With some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June.

Stephenson explores the GUI as a metaphor in terms of the increasing interposition of abstractions between humans and the actual workings of devices ( in a similar manner to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ) and explains the beauty hackers feel in good-quality tools.

Production Bike Racing is a form of Motorcycle racing that involves racing motorcycles virtually unmodified from those that can be bought in shops and then ridden on public highways.

The Blue Hussars on horseback were disbanded in the late 1940s and replaced by Motorcycle | motorbike outriders.

Roadshow: Landscape With Drums – A Concert Tour By Motorcycle.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

In the years following the publication of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance he has been solitary and reclusive.

In 1979, Pirsig's son Chris, who figured prominently in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, was stabbed to death during a mugging outside the San Francisco Zen Center.

Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance develops Pirsig's interpretation of " Quality " and " the Good.

* The Washington Post-ABC News Consumer Comfort Index is a consumer confidence index based on telephone interviews with 1, 000 randomly selected adults over the previous four-week period.

Bushnell has been inducted into the Video Game Hall of Fame and the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame, received the BAFTA Fellowship and the Nations Restaurant News “ Innovator of the Year ” award, and was named one of Newsweek's " 50 Men Who Changed America.

CNBC is the only NBC network whose abbreviation, while containing NBC, stands for another name: the Consumer News and Business Channel.

A subsidiary of NBCUniversal, it is the Asian service of the Consumer News and Business Channel ( CNBC ).

*" News Segments Packaged on Technology, Consumer Electronics "

News of the investigation came to light after the company sued five former executives in an attempt to prevent them providing information and documents to the relevant regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

*" Mobsters Charged in " Cramming " Scam " Consumer Affairs News

* CNBC ( until 1991 the Consumer News and Business Channel ), a US business news television channel

Some of the headlines in 1989-90 included " NHTSA Investigates Bronco II Rollovers ," Automotive News ( March 20, 1989 ) " Magazine Gives Ford's Bronco II ' Avoid ' Rating ," The Wall Street Journal ( May 8, 1989 ), and " Consumer Reports Criticizes Ford Bronco II's Handling ," The Washington Post ( May 18, 1989 ).

"... As a story, it's the best ... an enchanting game ..."- Scott Mace, Insider Magazine, " If you liked King's Quest, you'll love the sequel "- Consumer Software News, " Roberta Williams has simply outdone herself "- Computer Entertainment, King's Quest II has " the most lushly painted and highly detailed scenery seen since ... well, King's Quest I.

SMH offers care in 40 different specialties and is ranked as one of " America's Best Hospitals " by U. S. News & World Report, and has won the Consumer Choice Award for the best hospital in the area for 12 consecutive years.

He was the Stock Market Personality of the Month in Consumer Reports and appeared on various national television shows including ABC's Good Money, CNBC ’ s Squawk Box, Fox Business, NBC ’ s Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Regis and Kelly, ABC News, and Anderson Cooper 360.

Other prime time shows included 24 Nöje (" 24 Entertainment "), 24 Konsument (" 24 Consumer "), Sverige Nu (" Sweden Now ") and acquired programming such as Saturday Night Live, documentaries and World News from BBC World.

Washington – ABC News Consumer Comfort Index represents a rolling average based on telephone interviews with about 1, 000 adults nationwide each month.

It represents the rescaled average of Conference Board Consumer Confidence index, Reuters-University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment index and ABC News Consumer Comfort index.