Devin: Red TRX 250, John: Black Raptor 660r, Chad: Black TRX 250, Sarah: White Raptor 700r, Brett: Black YFZ 450r, Chris and Kailee(sorry if I spelled it wrong!): Green Teryx, Rick: White YFZ 450r, Jeremy: White Yamaha Dirt Bike
SANTA CRUZ – It wasn’t the brilliant sunshine or crashing waves that reminded Princess Kapiolani Kawananakoa of her native land as she sat at Lighthouse Point Friday morning.
“What really reminds me of Hawaii is the warm feeling out here,” she said. “Everyone is so nice.”
Flanked by hundreds of Santa Cruzans, Kawananakoa was the guest of honor at a ceremony unveiling a bronze plaque commemorating her grandfather and two other princes who introduced surfing to Santa Cruz, and the Americas as a whole, 125 years ago  … Details
Marketing mavens created the word “tweens†when they realized kids aged 9 to 13 were spending more than $1 billion a year on stuff and needed to describe the demographic. Â
And these two bikes – Honda’s new VFR1200F and BMW’s new-for-’09 K1300S – occupy a similar in-between niche. On one end are liter-sized sportbikes bred on the racetrack, like those in our recent 2010 Literbike Shootout. While the other end is occupied by big sport-tourers like the BMW K1300GT, Honda ST1300, Kawasaki Concours 14 and Yamaha FJR1300 we compared last summer … Details