From a press release:

San Jose, California, February 6, 2004 — Red Spider Video Productions announces the release of the broadcast music video “Flight Zone”. Red Spider Video Productions, best known for their innovative and fast paced on-track motorcycle video features, has produced a music video of “Flight Zone” featuring pro racer Brien Whitlock and Team IMR. “Flight Zone” was composed by Michael Gutierrez on the Visad Records label, (http://www.visadrecords.com) – an independent California -based recording company dedicated to offering artists a recording venue in which to preserve and showcase their music. RSVP will present the exclusive World Premiere of the video “Flight Zone” at Q Cafe, 529 Alma Street, Palo Alto, California Thursday, March 4, 2004. Festivities begin at 8 p.m. A trailer for the video can be seen at http://www.RedSpiderVideo.com/videorelease.htm

“Dale (Parizi, RedSpiderVideo.com executive producer) and I were thrilled to be asked to film and produce this exciting new video for Michael, Brien and Visad Records”, said Bobby Parizi, CEO of RSVP. “The music was written specifically for Brien and motorcycle racing. It’s fast paced, driving and truly describes the emotions and intensity of motorcycle racing at its best. We do believe this one of a kind video will put a strong and positive message out there for the sport of motorcycle riding.”

“I was happy to be a part of bringing talented people together, Mike, Dale & Bobby did an awesome job and I got to do what I like … Ride! Dale put her twist on it all, and it shows!” explained Brien Whitlock.

“This video was an awesome and fun project that came together with the help of all involved”, quotes Michael Gutierrez. “Thanks, Dale for the professional film production. Thank you, Brien and Team IMR, for believing in the dream. Keep taking the checkered flag, you guys are insane!!”

About Brien Whitlock
Concord, California
www.IMRacing.org
AMA #64 600 Supersport
AMA #164 Superstock-Formula Extreme (tba)
AFM #359
CCS, FUSA, WERA, WSMC

About Visad Records
Visad Records is an independent record label focusing on local artists who currently perform in the Area.
VisadRecords.com
5098 Foothills Blvd. Suite #3-150
Roseville, California 95747
916-771-8967

About Red Spider Video Productions
Red Spider Video Productions is exclusively committed to quality videography and post productions services at an affordable price to promote the motorcycle sport riding industry.
RedSpiderVideo.com
5003 Amondo Drive
San Jose, California 95129
408-314-0144

From a press release issued by Yamaha:

Membership Has Privileges: 2005 Yamaha FJR 1300/1300 ABS

CYPRESS, Calif.— Riding a Yamaha FJR 1300 puts owners into an exclusive club. BecauseYamaha doesn’t just build the best supersport touring bike in the world—it builds the only supersport touring bike in the world. The 145 horsepower FJR 1300/1300ABS is the ultimate combination of superbike power and sportbike handling with touring-bike comfort and convenience. Even the critics appreciated the FJR1300. Cycle World named it Best Sport-Touring Bike in its first season in the U.S. Last year, Motorcyclist called it Tourer of the Year while Rider magazine went ahead and labeled it Motorcycle of the Year for 2003.

Superbike Power
When it comes to low and mid-range torque, there’s no replacement for displacement. To that end, the FJR gets a 1298cc 16-valve fuel-injected four-cylinder engine which produces arm-straightening torque from off-idle and delivers a 145-horsepower peak at only 8,500 rpm. It’s a smooth, quiet beast, too, thanks to dual internal counterbalancers, and scissors-type primary gears which minimize gear whine and drivetrain lash. From there, power flows through a five-speed gearbox, low-maintenance shaft drive and onto the pavement through a 180-section rear tire.


Strong Like Bull

To deal with all that power, along with two people and their belongings, and still be able to handle with near-sportbike precision and control, the FJR gets a massive and stiff aluminum frame. Embracing the engine as a fully-stressed chassis member creates a super-rigid structure for attaching—that’s right—super strong suspension pieces: an adjustable fork with tubs fully 48mm in diameter, and a strong, adjustable-shock swingarm out back that also contains the FJR’s driveshaft

Optional ABS

When it’s time to stop, triple disc brakes with a pair of 320mm front rotors are good. When it’s time to stop on less-than perfect or wet surfaces, triple disc brakes with optional ABS are as good as it gets.

First Class

Color-matched saddlebags with liners, which use the same key as the ignition, are standard equipment. An electric-adjust windshield is standard equipment, so is the lockable small-item compartment in the left upper fairing. The full-zoot electronic/analog instrumentation, the centerstand and the integrated turnsignals all come standard. And don’t forget the 145-horsepower engine! Sometimes you can have it all.

The limited production 2005 Galaxy Blue FJR 1300 retails for $11,799 or $12,899 with ABS and are only available through a special Priority Delivery Program that runs February 6 to April 30, 2004. A $500 deposit at any Yamaha dealer puts customers in a national queue that will have customers taking deliveries following the order in which deposits are received. Shipments begin in July 2004 for this 2005 model. In addition, customers are eligible for zero interest and zero payments for six months from delivery date.

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

2003 AMA Superstock Champion Josh Hayes hopes to return from a broken foot in time to test his new Attack Kawasaki ZX-10R Superbike prior to going to the 2004 season opener at Daytona International Speedway.

Hayes suffered the injury while riding motocross January 3. “I was just doing some training. I had ridden a real long moto and gone back out to run around with some friends. It’s pretty stupid, but I ran out of gas,” Hayes told Roadracingworld.com Wednesday at California Speedway.

Hayes’ motocross bike lost power as he took off from a jump, causing him to land short. Hayes landed hard on his feet, breaking his left heel. The Gulfport, Mississippi rider had surgery to repair the fracture, with Dr. Arthur Ting surgically inserting three screws in the slow-healing bone on January 5.

Planning to ride around at California Speedway for brochure photos, Hayes came to the Fontana, California infield road course Tuesday on crutches and with a soft splint on his left foot. Hayes was unable to ride, however, because a shipping mistake sent his new leathers to Ontario, Canada instead of Ontario, California.

Hayes is scheduled for a follow-up examination with Dr. Ting Thursday at which time he hopes he will be given the green light to test his new ZX-10R Superbike at California Speedway or at Willow Springs.

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Contrary to statements he made at the December 2003 Dunlop tire test at Daytona International Speedway, four-time AMA Superbike Champion Mat Mladin will race in the 2004 Daytona 200 AMA Superbike season opener.

“I’ll do my absolute best to see that I don’t have to come and race here in March. I prefer to start with a 37-point deficit than come and race here (Daytona),” Mladin told Roadracingworld.com December 10, 2003, one day after the rear Dunlop tire on Jason DiSalvo’s Graves Yamaha YZF-R1 Superstock racebike exploded at 180 mph during testing at Daytona.

DiSalvo’s tire failure and his resulting long, high-speed slide down the Daytona pavement came less than two months after Mladin’s own teammate, 2003 AMA Formula Xtreme Champion Ben Spies, had another rear Dunlop explode at 186 mph at Daytona.

While DiSalvo was relatively uninjured, Spies suffered serious skin abrasions, some requiring surgical skin grafts, and was forced to miss three months of off-season physical training and preparations.

But Mladin’s feelings have now changed…somewhat.

“Sometimes you say things that I shouldn’t say you don’t really mean, but in the anger of the moment (pause) we were guaranteed that we wouldn’t have those tire problems,” Mladin told Roadracingworld.com Wednesday, February 4. “And when it happened near the end of the second day of a three-day test, it certainly becomes one of those things where it starts getting a bit old and you’re thinking as you go out on the racetrack it could be your last time out there.

“I’ll be at Daytona, whether I’ll be competitive or not is another story. I’ll certainly stay safe, let’s put it that way.”

Asked if anything had happened since the December test at Daytona to reinstall his confidence in Dunlop tires, Mladin simply said, “No.”

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

The 2004 Kawasaki ZX-10R AMA Superstock racebike is more powerful than the company’s ZX-7RR factory Superbike.

That’s the word from Kawasaki AMA Team Manager Michael Preston. Speaking during testing at California Speedway Wednesday, Preston told Roadracingworld.com that his team’s ZX-10R Superstock bikes made “way more horsepower and way more torque than our 750 ever did.”

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

The GSX-R600 Supersport racebikes ridden by Yoshimura Suzuki’s Aaron Yates and Ben Spies will be painted yellow rather than the team’s traditional colors, blue and white, for the AMA season opener at Daytona International Speedway.



“American Suzuki has decided to enter the yellow (Suzuki) GSX-R600 for Daytona,” Yoshimura Suzuki Team Manager Don Sakakura told Roadracingworld.com Wednesday. “It’s a brand new model, obviously, and we feel it’s going to be very competitive at Daytona, so we’re trying to make an issue or point there – new model, new bike, competitive bike. Hopefully we can do well there.”

Copyright 2004, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc.

Reader Chris Giron of Greensburg, Pennsylvania sent us this link to a local news story, which reports that authorities have finally caught a Nigerian scam artist taking advantage of Americans.

http://www.post-gazette.com/breaking/20040205nigeriap5.asp

From a press release issued by Aprilia:

In San Marino Republic, a postage stamp is dedicated to Manuel Poggiali and his victory with the Aprilia 250.

From left to right: Paride Andreoli, San Marino’s Minister of Sport Activities, Manuel Poggiali, Jan Witteveen, Aprilia Sport Activities Director, Pier Marino Mularoni, San Marino’s Secretary of State for Finances.