The tour comes on the heels of a partnership with "American Chopper," the reality show on the Discovery Channel, where the brand commissioned the motorcycle shop featured on the show, Orange County Choppers, to build a motorcycle in honor of the 35th anniversary of Hair Club.
The Bendix Company built a rear-wheel steering bicycle, and the U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned the construction of a rear-wheel steering motorcycle: both proved to be unridable.
Due to Feller's pitching speed, Lew Fonseca was commissioned by the Office of the Commissioner to pit Feller's fastball against a Harley-Davidson motorcycle in a speed trial.
Mr. Medavoy will also have rights to a book that is being written about the incident by Héctor Tobar, and is commissioning a script by Jose Rivera, whose screenplay for "The Motorcycle Diaries" was nominated for an Oscar in 2005.
The commission's statistics show that off-road motorcycle use accounted for more than 39,000 injuries that required emergency room treatment in 1998, a figure that rose to 47,400 in 1999.
In New Jersey, legislators heard such an uproar over the Motor Vehicle Commission's decision to raise the cost of registering a motorcycle (to $65 from $31.50) that they pushed to strip the commission of its power over the fees.
The deputy police chief in Kunduz Province, Ebadullah Talwar, said that two men riding on a motorcycle opened fire on Mohammad Amanullah, the head of the Kunduz office of the commission, at 8 45 a.m., and that he died at a hospital.
