I had my Optimate 3+ for over 2 years now, it got a lot of beating and water splashing i actually ran over a couple of times while parking the bike…it still function very well. I have been using it to maintain the bike batteries and the battery of an old car i have in the garage, although it takes a couple of days to fully charge the car battery but it does the job.

I usually park one of my bikes at the office and the rest at home, and after a couple let downs by the bike parked at the office i decided to get another battery maintainer and keep it at the office parking. I looked around locally for something small yet tough, one that is water resistant and can charge car batteries as well but i did not find any. So i decided to order one over the net, did some googling and finally ended up getting the Genius G3500. The G3500 is an 8 Step fully automatic charger, it charges 6V & 12V Wet, Gel, MF & AGM batteries. It’s almost the size of a Pepsi can, light, tough water resistant and very nicely packed. I also ordered extra connecters for all the bikes.

Now the only this i did not notice while reading the specs before ordering is that it only takes 110-120 VAC and not 220-240 VAC !!

So i am gona need a step down transformers .

I have been hesitant to upgrade to Lion fearing compatibility issues, but after reading some reviews and a lot of googling i finaly upgraded. While installing, Lion checks for incompatible softwares and place them in a special folder.. i had only one incompatible software which i don’t use, i even did not know i still have it.

The finder windows has a new look, the systems prefs got some nice upgrades especially the Trackpad pane which now has lots of new gestures, the Users & Groups pane and the Mail app got some new features as well. The new trackpad gestures makes you feel as if you are using completely new apps, most of the apps can now run in full screen, a great feature if you are using a Mac with a small screen.

What i did not like is the Launchpad feature, a feature Apple bragged a lot about. The feature displays all your apps including some of the installers and the uninstallers!! but unlike the i devices you can’t remove any of the apps form the Launchpad, and the only way to hide these apps is by grouping them in a folder !!

I have been using the system the whole day today, and am still discovering new features, which i believe will take some time to remember, getting used to and start using them.

I downloaded Lion using this torrent

The title might be misleading but am referring to TV commercials.

Every Ramdan most of the local banks and telecom companies air their new TVCs’ on local satellite TV channels, a trend that picked up around 7-8 years ago when watching satellite channels was the thing to do -for some reason- in Ramadan !

Now with all the smart phones, ipads, social media and other micro communication tools, does anyone watch TV anymore, you know like we used to in the old days ?  like a family spending the evening around TV watching a movie or a TV show form a satellite channel.

I think we still do but the numbers are very little and doesn’t justify the money spent for advertising on these channels, i believe the internet has morphed satellite TV and turned it into an entertainment tool for kids and the elderly…those who aren’t using the internet yet or have nothing better to do on their laptops, ipads or smart phones.

Personally i only watch the news from satellite channels like Jazeera, Arabia, BBC, and sports channels like ESPN and Eurosport, i also watch movies that i download. But whenever i feel like wasting time i watch satellite TV, i just keep flipping between channels until i feel dizzy and go to sleep.

What i wanted to say is that i have watched almost all of ramadan TV commercials form NBK, Zain, GulfBank etc. either on my laptop or on my iphone and believe it or not i haven’t seen any of them on TV yet.

If you would like to watch them visit Blog 37,i think he posted all of them :-* فُـله .

This is a video we shot last year, we had a demo Aprilla RSV4 Factory, a demo BMW S1000rr and a fully moded BMW E60 M5.
We were experimenting with the RR trying to find out what can it do, so we asked our friend on the RR to stop and only start accelerating when we – me on the RSV4 and my friend in the M5- pass by him at a speed of 100km\h.
Now the thing that we did not know that the RSV4 was on the “R” mood which stands for Road and only pumps out 140hp while the “R” mood on the RR is the race mode that unleashes all the 180 horses.
Enjoy

Ducati must have gifted him the bike after this review !!

Since i have not ridden the Diavel yet i can only agree with part from 3:50 to 4:10.

I like Dainses products a lot, their designs are elegant and timeless,  i bought my Dainses Quito shoe 3 years ago and since then i hardly worn any of my other riding shoes, the Quito is very comfy and has all the protection that you need for normal street riding.

But after three years the Quito started to show some signs of wear, and its about time that i get a new one so i decided to get the Dainese Sechura, the Sechura is a warm weather touring boots, its stylish, has gear change guard, non-slip sole, ankle protection, and 3D Bubble air liner thats makes it better ventilated than the Quito, which used to make my feet sweat even when the weather is cold.

I have been wearing the Sechura for the past week and am very happy with it, it feels like you have an AC unit inside the shoe and with its SkyWalk sole you hardly feel your wearing a riding boots.

I’ll be going on a little bike trip next week, and i needed a bag to carry my stuff so i got this BMW bag…its a 55 liter soft bag with a semi hard bottom.

Its water proof and can sit on the pillion seat or on the luggage rack and strapped to the bike chassis, it comes with 6 pairs of straps -different sizes-, sidetop pockets, light reflectors, and a shoulder strap.

In case you need to know, i easily stuffed it with 16 t-shirts, 3 jeans, 3 shorts, 2 swimming shorts, 10 underwear’s, 3 pairs of shoes, a Flip-flop, socks, laptop, camera, chargers, toiletries, and the travel documents in the transparent upper pocket.

I like the quality of and design of the bag that i also got the smaller one -30 Liters-.

I’am not a fan of Egyptian movies, but this one hilarious…don’t miss it.

All the photos i took were bad because of the weather so i decided to use a stock photo

Early morning on Saturday  i started getting the usual SMSs’ form the guys asking me to wake up and join them for a ride, they knew i had the RSV4 Factory and they wanted to see how it performs and properly take it for a spin….i wasn’t interested in waking up early because i thought its still dusty outside, but i took a peak from behind the curtains and the next thing you know am doing +200km/h on the first curve that came my way… -it’s only when the curve ended i realized how fast i was going!-

The first thing you’ll notice about this bike is its tiny size and when i say tiny i mean light and tiny…i never been on one liter bike that is so small ‘n light, i think its even smaller than a 600cc bike.. seams this is the trend now!! once you are on the bike you become a transformer, your body grows 2 wheels and your balls becomes the engine…the bike literary disappears between your legs the only thing that you see from the bike is its side mirrors which are surprisingly functional !!!

The bike is more of a track bike, too firm to be road-practical..riding position is very racy with low clip-ons and high foot pegs, slipper clutch to prevent rear wheel lock-ups, and Brembo Monobloc four-piston brakes that you’ll enjoy touching…altering the center of gravity is made easy by only changing the position of a couple of screws…it has a lot power and goes mental once it reaches 10,000 rpm, but all that can be tamed down by changing the riding mode with a press of a button…but why tame it down when you can push it hard and enjoy the side effects, at the end of the day it’s not how much power you have, its how you use it.

The v4 engine is perfect, it has the horse power of a straight four and the soundfeel of the V twin…fire up the engine up and you’ll hear a very distinctive roar, a roar that can only come form an Italian bike, a roar that takes you back in time…back to when bikes sounded like bikes, engage the gear and that roar changes into a more deeper aggressive roar!!!

Its Ohlins suspension is so damn beautiful, it reads every little bump on the road and feeds it back to your hands, take the bike into a long curve on an uneven road and let it play its melody to your hands and rear….if you are into high speedon the throttle curves, wheelies, and going into roundabouts with a sliding back wheel, then this is your dream bike…this is a bike with a character, a bike with killer looks, a bike that you’ll need to talk to before riding it, a bike that talks back to you …a bike that asks you to push it hard, and shakes its head to tell you when you are over doing it.

The bike is available for test rides, call Bike World to schedule yours and don’t forget to convey my greetings to the bike.