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10 MOTORCYCLE MOJO MAY 2019

BY THE NUMBERS

That’s how many Mad Bastard Scooter Rallies will have been

completed after this year’s edition takes place June 21–23.

The biennial 24-hour rally for scooters covers as much as

800 km. This year will mark the ¿nal edition of the rally.

Half a millennium. That’s how

long it’s been in years since

Leonardo da Vinci took his last

breath. This is significant for motorcyclists, because

without him, we would not have the ball bearing, among

other very pertinent inventions. He first drew a ball

bearing around the beginning of the 16th century.

Today, ball bearings are what enable motorcycles and

countless other machines to operate almost friction-free,

thus preventing them from complete meltdown.

The time it takes in milliseconds

for the Alpinestars Tech-Air

airbag system to fully inflate after

detecting a crash, and in most

cases, even before impact. The

system uses airbags to protect the

shoulders, kidney area, chest and

upper abdomen, and has been in

use since 2009 in the MotoGP.

That’s the temperature in Celsius that

Lithuanian adventure rider Karolis

Mieliauskas had to endure during

The Coldest Ride: a 1,000 km journey

across Russia’s far east from Yakutsk

to Oymyakon, one of the coldest

habitable places on Earth. He successfully completed the ride two

days early, and to celebrate, he took a dip in a frozen river.

The number of custom Roadmaster

Elites being manufactured by

Indian Motorcycle. Each one is

hand-painted and includes 24-karat

gold-leaf badging – a process that

takes 30 hours to complete.

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500

The number in dollars that are finally being put forward to

start the restoration of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, the

world’s land speed Mecca. Another $45 million is hoped to be

added to the restoration project over the next 10 years.

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The year that Triumph invented

the street-legal scrambler category

with its TR5 Trophy model,

so named after winning big with

the company’s Speed Twin at

the 1948 ISDT event in Italy.

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