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The Rider Pass , described as the largest motorcycle sharing marketplace , has announced that bikers can now pay a monthly subscription for discounted rides across the motorcycle rental marketplace . A subscription pricing plan from Austin , Texas based Riders Share is said to be an industry-first service for peerto-peer rentals . Launched in 2018 , Riders Share is said to have over 100,000 registered total users and says that over 15,000 people have shared their motorcycles on the platform . The base monthly subscription price is $ 24 with a 12-month term , or $ 22 per month if prepaid in advance .

Only a year since announcing its plans , BMW is starting battery component production in Germany at Leipzig and Regensburg and expanding its e-drive production network . The BMW Group is investing a total of around € 790m in expanding production capacity for drivetrain components for electrified vehicles at its Dingolfing , Leipzig , Regensburg and Steyr locations between 2020 and 2022 .

Anyone who thought that the MV ' Ever Given ' Suez Canal drama was over has underestimated the long-term implications . While the blockage may have been resolved in a week in March , the ship itself is still parked in a lake on the Canal in Egypt and has become the center of a huge international game of legal jeopardy . As ever , the attorneys will be the only winners - Yamaha and Ducati certainly won ' t be . They have complete bikes ( in the case of Yamaha ) and components trapped there among the 18,000 containers that are now being held hostage .

Internationally respected vehicle and performance engineer Ricardo has opened an Electrified Propulsion Research Centre ( EPRC ) as a global center of excellence for electrified transport engineering . " It is enabling the research and development of the next generation of electrified vehicles , from component level subsystems to fully integrated powertrain ." It is servicing vehicles across all platforms including automotive , commercial vehicle , defence , industrial and off-highway , highperformance and motorsport , and motorcycle .

Having posted a top speed of 144.2 mph on his way to qualifying first for the first King of The Baggers race of the season at Road Atlanta , Jamie O ' Hara took the win on his Mission Foods S & S Indian Challenger on Sunday May 2nd to pick up where he left off when he scooped the win at the first ever KOTB race ( Laguna Seca ) in 2020 . In a closely fought race that likely

foreshadows the story of the three-race season , O ' Hara took the win on his OEM and S & S Cycle backed Indian Challenger by less than half a second from the H-D Screamin ' Eagle Performance backed , 131 " crate engined Road Glide raced by pro rider Kyle Wyman - the son of Kim Wyman , owner of Harv ’ s H-D at Macedon , near Rochester in upstate New York .

Frankie Garcia brought the Roland Sands Design Indian Challenger home in third , some 25 seconds back but only 0.122 of a second ahead of Hayden Gillim on the Vance & Hines RDC ( Racing Development Center ) prepared 131 " Fuelpak FP3 custom tuned , hioutput 2-into-1 exhaust equipped Electra Glide in fourth . Eric Stahl ( Jiffy Tune Racing ) and John

Staged on a hybrid Super TT course , the seven weeks wait for the return of AFT action following the season-opening Double Header in Florida in March produced a sensational triple win across all three classes for title sponsor Yamaha at its home race in what proved to be a historic evening of Progressive American Flat Track racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway . Just miles from its American base of operations , Yamaha became the first manufacturer to ever pull off a victory sweep across all three classes in a single evening thanks to the virtuoso performances of Estenson Racing ’ s JD Beach and Dallas Daniels . Beach completed the remarkable triple win in absolutely crushing form aboard the No . 95 Estenson Racing Yamaha MT-07 DT in the Mission SuperTwins presented by S & S Cycle main event . The multi-time national champion roadracer and TT race winner opened up a full straightaway ’ s advantage early on and then cruised home to a near-five-second margin-of-victory by

Seuberling ( Mad Monkey Racing ) brought their Harleys home a lap behind Gillim as fifth and sixth finishers . Michael Barnes , also on a Harley ( DTF Performance / Hoban Brothers Racing / Darkhorse Crankworks ), was classified DNS - despite clearly having the chops to compete , having been the fourth best qualifier just 3.2 seconds behind O ' Hara .

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the end . An entertaining melee for second saw Sammy Halbert ( No . 69 Coolbeth-Nila Racing Indian FTR750 ), Briar Bauman ( No . 1 Indian Motorcycle / Progressive Insurance FTR750 ), Jarod Vanderkooi ( No . 20 Mission Roof Systems Indian FTR750 ), and Davis Fisher ( No . 67 BMC Racing / Dick Wall 60 Indian FTR750 ) slug it out in Beach ' s wake . In the AFT Production Twins presented by Vance & Hines , Dallas Daniels ( No . 32 Estenson Racing Yamaha MT-07 ) added to his quickly burgeoning reputation , not only winning in his Progressive AFT twin-cylinder debut but flat out dominating the Production Twins main event . All-around ace

Dalton Gauthier ( No . 79 D & D Cycles / Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson XG750R ) came home a clear second , with Dan Bromley ( No . 62 Memphis Shades / Vinson Construction Yamaha MT-07 ) third . In a red-flag impacted AFT Singles , despite pressure from Spanish flat track superstar Ferran Cardús ( Honda CRF450R ) and Mikey Rush ( Yamaha YZ450F ), Daniels held the lead from holeshot to chequered flag , becoming the first rider to win two classes at a single event since Ricky Graham . Next Up is the Mission Foods Texas Half-Mile at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth , on May 22nd . www . americanflattrack . com

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