Special Reports

  Productsplacedon the market in the EU are subject to general safetyrequirements.These requirements are included in the General ProductSafetyDirective 2001/95/EC (GPSD) which aims at ensuring that onlysafeconsumer products are sold in the EU. TheEuropean Commissions’ Rapid Alert System(RAPEX) enablesthe quick exchange of information between theEuropean countriesand the European Commission about dangerousnon-food productsposing a risk to […]

  Motorcycle culture is mostly dynamic, but it has some traditions that will never change. The nostalgia and appreciation for the person that first put you on a bike… everyone has that story, and they are often shared over more than a couple of beers. The South Carolina Biker Hall of Fame (SCBOF) honors that

  The Tesla S is the closest thing to a totally driverless car available now. I had to leave my state to test-drive it. New York’s archaic laws forbid taking both hands off the wheel. Once outside New York, the Tesla representative in the passenger seat had me turn on the autopilot. Suddenly, I was

Today, UC Davis released the first estimates of methane emissions from an underground gas storage field north of Los Angeles. Owned by Southern California Gas Company, the gas has been leaking since October. UC Davis pilot and scientist Stephen Conley measured the plume and estimates nearly 80,000 tons of methane have been released, or about

  Democratic NAZI party Leader Barak Insane Obama and his Gestapo at USEPA want more man made Utopia. If you like anything motorized, motorcycles, cars, trucks and boats. This is the beginning of the END. See Below… SEMA works to prevent proposed EPA prohibition of road-to-racecar conversionsTuesday, 09 February 2016 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Itwould have been Doug Bingham’s 45thGriffith Park Sidecar Rally this coming October, 2016 but his “flyingchair” will be empty this next go-around. After nearly halfcentury’s full-time dedication to the promotion of the sidecarexperience, on this past January 27, 2016, Doug passed away at age76. SayingDoug lived, breathed, ate, slept, dreamed sidecars would be noexaggeration. He

Three major auto-title lenders have filed legal petitions to block Virginia state officials from releasing company annual reports to the Center for Public Integrity, arguing that doing so would seriously damage their businesses. The title loan industry, which is dominated by three Georgia-based companies, has come under fire from consumer advocates and some lawmakers for

NMA Editor’s Note: The NMA has a long tradition of calling out the AAA for its often contradictory or hypocritical stances on important motorists’ issues such as improperly set speed limits and the use of red-light cameras. NMA Foundation Executive Director Jim Walker has often led the charge as he did recently with this letter

So often problems concerning the environment seem insurmountable, causing us to shrug our shoulders and then think about issues we feel that we can actually do something about. But since I traveled to Bonneville for my coverage of the challenges facing the Salt Flats, some very positive developments have taken place. Recently, I spoke with

    “…Yet ah! Why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more: – where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise.” Thomas Gray’s Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College    What Thomas Gray was talking about