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I guess it was just a question of time for when I had to submit and sign up for Twitter as well… ;)

https://twitter.com/#!/BikerThomasCOM

https://www.facebook.com/BikerThomasCOM

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Allright, so I finally got around to adding a Facebook fan page ;-p

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I May BikerThomas.com was featured in a post called “53 motorcycle enthusiast blogs”, it’s a good list of blogs and chances are good that you’ll find another motorcycle blog you can add to your regular reads (in addition to BikerThomas.com of course! :-).

Today, I got an e-mail from Mariah Gonzales telling me that she added me to her post called “TOP 100 Motorcycle Bloggers”. Being featured like this is always immensely appreciated, thank you very much! Go on, have a look at the list, it’s pretty extensive, you’re bound to find something you like.

53 motorcycle enthusiast blogs
http://www.motorcycleinsurance.org/53-motorcycle-enthusiast-blogs/

TOP 100 Motorcycle Bloggers
http://www.operationsmanagement.net/the-top-100-motorcycle-bloggers

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Family and friends have asked me to put up a guestbook. It’s finally here!
Click HERE to write something in it – be nice! :)

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I’m a huuuuge fan of iPhone. I use it everyday for all sorts of things and it’s just one of those things that make you think “how did I ever manage without this?”. I can even blog to BikerThomas.com straight from my iPhone with pictures and everything.

So it’s only fair that I contribute to the iPhone community as well by installing the totally awesome WPtouch iPhone Theme plugin. With this baby installed you can browse this blog in a super-friendly way on your iPhone (and hopefully also on iPad when it’s launched?).

From the iPhone-version of BikerThomas you can even share articles on Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Technorati etc. and send a link to the article you are reading to others. And you can leave a comment on the article you’re reading and share it on Facebook as usual of course :)

Enter www.bikerthomas.com in the built-in Safari browser on your iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS and check it out yourself!

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Motorcyclists get 25% off for travels before April next year (it’s still a bit cold at that time of year so put on some warm clothes!)

A coworker of mine told me about the autozug in Germany. It’s a train where you can put your car or motorcycle on the train, go get some sleep in a comfortable cabin and wake up in a totally different country the next morning, how cool is that!

Now, I know alot of you will say something along the lines of “why bring your bike if you’re not going to ride it?”. But I’ve tried driving on the Autobahn and though it’s efficient, it isn’t all that fun. I’m talking miles and miles of straight road with no turns here. And besides, how cool wouldn’t it be to get on the train in Hamburg, Germany and wake up in Verona, Italy or Narbonne in France? And you’ll be all relaxed and ready to take your monster out for a ride south to the east coast of Spain or deep into Italy or over even over the Alps!

This is something I’ll have to try sometime.

For tickets and more information hit Autozugs website:
http://www.dbautozug.de/site/dbautozug/en/start.html

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That’s 6.365,3 miles if you’re from the USA.

I finally passed the magic 10.000 KM mark this weekend while doing a 700KM drive to Oslo and back home. Wohoo!

To Illustrate how far 10.000KM really is, here’s a drawing I stole from an article about birds…

Nice to see things in perspective… :)

That’s right, it’s as far as from Alaska to New Zealand! So what’s the status of the bike? Still no breakdowns, nothing to worry about mechanically whatsoever  (except for the battery going flat over winter, but that was entirely my own fault as I “forgot” to hook it up to a charger).

My Kawasaki is still going strong! …and I’m looking forward to the next 10.000KM and the next and the next and so forth… :)

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In many cities in Norway we celebrate motorcycles by arranging “Day of the motorcycle”-events. It’s an annual event and different cities have different dates and many motorcyclists will attend several during Spring. People bring their motorcycles and get together for a chat, a coffee and a waffle :)

Like in England, Norway also has a union fighting for motorcyclists’ interests, they usually show up on these events and tell everyone to join and lets everyone know their agenda for the year.

Buuuuut, the real fun is watching all the supercool bikes! It’s always great to see people who have the same bike as you or the bike that you wish you had! Someone will always show up with a beautiful vintage bike or the biggest trike you ever put your eyes on. After you’ve been drooling on all the bikes for a few hours, watched the anti-drag race (to see who can ride a particular stretch as slowly as possible…) everybody ride together to a cafè or something similar. It’s all good fun!

I brought my friend Atle to this event, we didn’t bring our bikes but I’ll definitely bring it next year! Especially since the VN900 wasn’t represented this year – someone’s gotta put in the effort! ;)

 
Vintage Harley Davidson (left), The same Harley with an old Tempo (right)

 
A beautiful Classic Triumph (left), A custom bike that sticks out from the rest (right)

 
A trike with room for a beer fridge, handy! (left), “Motorsykkelens dag” in Kristiansand (right)

 
A shiny VN800 Classic (left), A perfect example of a tire that needs to be changed (right)

 
Same bikes, different styling (left), Mr. and Mrs. on their Harleys? Nice bikes!

 
Anti-drag-race (left), Time to grab some more more coffee and waffles in the closest city (right)

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