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2012 Harley-Davidson Night Rod Special
byWe’ve seen some brawny looking tough, nasty Harley Davidson in the past, but no one comes closer to the 2012 Harley-Davidson Night Rod Special. The Night Rod Special boasts Pro Stock lineage, black-x-infinity [...]
2012 Honda NC700X: First Look
byHonda introduced lightweight crossover motorcycles at the Milan Auto Show last year. These newly fangled middleweight crossover motorcycles ranked real-world fun above out-and-out performance. Recently [...]
2012 Kawasaki ER-6n – First Ride
byIf you want a bike that you could enjoy riding all day long, and yet asking for more it is the all new 2012 Kawasaki ER-6n. We are saying it because we just felt it. The revamped Kawasaki ER-6n is a harmonious [...]
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2012 Kawasaki ER-6n – First Ride
December 30th, 2011 at 09:12 am in KawasakiIf you want a bike that you could enjoy riding all day long, and yet asking for more it is the all new 2012 Kawasaki ER-6n. We are saying it because we just felt it. The revamped Kawasaki ER-6n is a harmonious riding machine which makes you ride all day long with a desire to wish [...]
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Kawasaki Motorcycles: Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager & Kawasaki ZX12Posted at December 29th, 2010 at 06:12 am in KawasakiKawasaki Motorcycles was found in the year 1954 and today it is known to be the leading manufacturer of motocross, Supersport touring, supersport, off-road, sport, dual purpose and cruiser motorcycles. They have been in the market [...] -
Kawasaki bikes: Kawasaki ZX6 & Kawasaki ZR7Posted at November 29th, 2010 at 12:11 am in KawasakiKawasaki Bikes initially used to produce low powered engines. The history of Kawasaki is completely different as compared to other motorcycle producing companies. In the year 1949, they started manufacturing engines which can be adapted [...]
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2012 Piaggio X10 350 ReviewPosted at May 18th, 2012 in PiaggioIt has lines of legs from Italian supermodels & I got VIP treatment & suave launch of scooter along with Italian Embassy at Paris, serving as runway. 2012 Piaggio X10 350 is scooter famed producer’s new flag ship model & it is aimed at market of grown ups who know all about appreciating the every day comforts. I was expecting rain @ Paris on my day of riding and hence I got in Gore-Tex jacket in 52-liters (or 13.7-gallons) capacity under seat compartment of storage. This compartment includes light, will take a full faced helmet @ front & open face helmet @ back but it isn’t really big enough for 2 lids that are full faced as rear compartment is not really deep enough. Under front console, this Piaggio comes with 3 compartments for glove, with left compartment having USB plug & 12 volts socket for power. [...] -
2012 MV Agusta F3 675 ReviewPosted at May 16th, 2012 in MV AgustaAll-new 675 F3 from MV Agusta opens fresh market to elite lineup of MV Agusta by entering class of middleweight. Mid-sized sport bike category includes 600 cc super sports from Big Four of Japan, but F3 uses 675cc, 3-cylinder formula that is pioneered by Triumph & the Daytona 675 instead of engines of 4-cylinder like Japanese. A Euro correspondent took it for few hot laps @ Paul Ricard circuit @ South of France. In the segment amongst inline-4 600s where half a horse is though to be big news, this MV Agusta F3 carries great punch indeed. 2012 MV Agusta F3 675 claims to give126 of hp @ 14.400 rpm. For raw technical specifications, this F3 is quite close to Triumph Daytona 675, which is other Triple for this segment. But F3 carries plenty of electronics more from this decade, and this includes control of traction & full ride-by-wire [...] -
Motorcycle lane splitting is legal, but some bikers are nervous about itPosted at May 11th, 2012 in NewsDiane Bagues just moved at San Leandro couple of years ago from some other state, & she got stunned 1 day when motorcyclist had sped down middle of freeway few inches away from the car & one in next lane. She said that lane-splitting really scares her and that she said in an email that she hasn’t seen this in other states and she doesn’t believe that it is very legal in here. She isn’t alone either. Starting off start of the Month of Motorcycle Safety Awareness, state Office at Traffic Safety at Thursday had released the first-ever survey of controversial yet legal splitting lanes practice. This survey had found that about 53% of the drivers think that splitting lanes is forbidden by law but about 87 per cent of the motorcyclists are still doing it. They also found that about seven percent of the drivers [...] -
Motorcycle sales in LA outpace the national averagePosted at May 10th, 2012 in NewsIt looks once again as it Louisiana & Gulf South are now doing better as compared to general economy. Just like report on the car sales in state, the motorcycle sales for this region are far out pacing rest of country. Nationally the sales motorcycle went up by almost 9% in 1st quarter for this year, says the Council of Motorcycle Industry, after almost nonexistent growth in the year 2011. But now the story is different story. Rodney Barkalow, who is General Manager at New Orleans Harley Davidson says that the sales have really started to take off in the last year. He says that in the last year, not just did he see an increase in the bike sales just like a lot of the other dealers, but the sales of used bike too went up. This is something that Harley does not track and he is now selling 3 used bikes as compared to 1 new bike. Barkalow [...] -
Horex VR6 gets delayedPosted at May 9th, 2012 in NewsIn spite of stating @ end of Feb that VR6 all-new Roadster was just weeks away from the production, the manufacturer has stated that 6 cylinders machine won’t go in to production till May. This delay comes after firm had decided on putting control equipment of extra emissions on this bike. VR6 all-new Roadster comes with series of some innovations including clever & compact 1218 cc 6-cylinder engine. This bike will get 161 bhp & thumping 100 ft lb torque which is impressively low in rpm slugs. Engine of six-cylinder has 66 ft lb torque @ 2000 rpm, increasing to about 74 ft lb @ 3500rpm. Performance figures for lower engine range of speed topped by max 100 ft lb torque @ 7000rpm. It is said that Horex decided on equipping new VR6 Roadster along with secondary air system of injection that is designed for reducing the [...] -
MIC says motorcycle sales up 6.7% in Q1Posted at May 8th, 2012 in NewsMotorcycle Industry Council has reported that the sales of new motorcycles grew by 6.7 percent for 1st quarter of the year 2012. Encouraging news does follow MIC’s sober fore cast of March that the sales of 2012 will decline. Scooter segment has leads way in the percentage growth as compared to the Q1 of last year, along with segment of On-Highway showing highest increase in volume. Positive news here continues along with sales of ATV rebounding post multiple quarters for the reduced sales. The news is not so good for the sales of Off-Highway, which was only segment that showed decreases in sales over the years. Market of motorcycle is up by 6878 units for 2011. The on-Highway sales increased to 6224, about 77,103 total 8 percent gain from the last year. The scooter sales, typically follows volatile boom & bust cycle but [...] -
Motorcycle sales shows reboundPosted at April 23rd, 2012 in NewsSales of the on-road motorcycles, which had taken beating at economic downturn, have started to rev up finally. According to Motorcycle Industry Council, the sales of the new motorcycles which meant for the road use & scooters rose to 8.8% for first quarter in 2012 as compared to same period in last year part due to weather that is unseasonably warm & higher prices of gas. Scooters got particularly big boost about 16.9% as compared to last year. The sales of the dual-purpose bikes which are used for on- & off-road riding, rose up to 12.7%. 1 sector which still saw the declining sales was the off-road bikes, down by 6.7 percent. Eric Jensen, who is owner of European dealership of dirt-bike – Eric Motorcycle Co. @ Pasadena, had expressed some optimism. Jensen says that he has reached bottom. Jensen has been been saving [...] -
Indonesia March motorbike sales fell 12.8 percentPosted at April 16th, 2012 in NewsIndonesia’s domestic sales of motorcycle, which is indicator of the private consumption at Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, recently fell about 12.8 % year-for-year in the month of March, say our sources. The sales for March were about 619,678 motorbikes, says AISI or Indonesian Motor cycle Industry Association. In 1st 3 months, the sales were about 1,931,677 motorbikes, or about 2.7% below 1,985,800 from one year earlier. The sales in March were led by the manufacturers from Japan like Yamaha, Honda, & Suzuki, according to the data showed. Parliament of Indonesia on March 31st gave authority to government to raise the subsidised prices of fuel if the bench mark Indonesian crude rise of price is 15 percent above the targetted level of about $105 for a single barrel. Central bank set minimal down payments for the [...] -
2012 Yamaha WR450FPosted at April 12th, 2012 in Yamaha2012 Yamaha WR450F is now here. However, before I write about how every thing updated, new, borrowed & unique, you may wish to ask your self what a perfect off-road 450 cc-class bike should be. Do not compromise. Your expectations should be set high. This is 2012 after all. I’d think that manufacturer can build perfect bike now & never mind fact that they’ve EPA, DOT, CARB & some other acronyms for appeasing. We’d want 2-stroke lightness, fuel-injected smoothness, four-stroke traction, plush suspension which doesn’t bottoms out ever, & we’d want it looking really awesome & unique at same time. We’d want it to be legal on street & I’d want for racing too. Finally, it should be cheap. Knowing the consumer-bred difficulty that is going in to such exercise is why it is pretty exciting [...] -
Triumph creates 40 jobs while expanding bike rangePosted at April 11th, 2012 in NewsTriumph Motorcycles is making forty jobs of engineering for helping to develop the new models. Legendary plans of company for increasing number of the engineers for the Hinckley centre of design by a 5th to about 240. This company yearns to expand the range of about 22 bikes, and it includes classic Speed Triple & adventure Tiger 800 bike. New recruits, which are mixture of the experienced engineers & the recent graduates, are responsible for design & development of the new bikes. Head of HR at Triumph – Cliff Powell said that they are looking at attracting both the talented graduates & the experienced engineers, for different exciting & challenging roles. He says that Triumph is offering the engineers varied path of career as compared to different automobile manufacturers at UK, encouraging people actively [...]
