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    Motorcycle sales shows rebound
    Sales 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  [...]
    Posted at April 23rd, 2012 in News
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    Indonesia March motorbike sales fell 12.8 percent
    Indonesia’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  [...]
    Posted at April 16th, 2012 in News
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    2012 Yamaha WR450F
    2012 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  [...]
    Posted at April 12th, 2012 in Yamaha
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    Triumph creates 40 jobs while expanding bike range
    Triumph 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  [...]
    Posted at April 11th, 2012 in News
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    Mega Merger Announced by the Japanese Motorcycle Manufacturers
    On heels of unprecedented stagnation of sales triggered by global recession,,Japanese “big 4″ motorcycle makers– Kawasaki, Honda, Suzuki & Yamaha-recently announced alliance which they’ll build, develop, & distribute the bikes under a single banner. The corporation representatives had revealed that this deal will have strategic meets of all minds which has not been done since conglomerate of German Auto Union was done in the year 1932. This new organization has promised to be tour de force of technology. Soichiro Kojiro Genichi Michio, who was speaking for the manufacturers, said that they will be ushering new motorcycling era. Through new racetracks collection which now has Hamamatsu, Motegi, Fukuroi, and Autopolis, they will be engineering new type of 4 -cylinder super bikes which will beat best  [...]
    Posted at April 4th, 2012 in News