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2012 Bajaj Pulsar 200NSPosted at May 29th, 2012 in BajajPulsar bikes from Bajaj are quite a rage inside India. Now, Pulsar triple-plug 200NS, along with engine that is based from KTM Duke 200, looks to start altogether new chapter. Bajaj Auto Ltd. is 2nd-largest 2-wheeler maker in India’s, selling more than 200,000 motorcycles a month. It is a house hold name for India and this bike maker operates from 3 sprawling facilities manufacturing, along with in-house center for R&D. At helm of this company, there is managing hands-on director, known as Rajiv Bajaj. This company recently had increased their stake in the KTM to about 47 percent post starting along with 14.5 percent share in the year 2007. Pulsar is brainchild of Rajiv & all his efforts have been nursed inside this brand in to popular giant it is today having more than 150k Pulsars bikes taking to roads in the year [...]
Honda Launches Dream Yuga in IndiaPosted at May 25th, 2012 in NewsHMC or Honda Motor Co. recently launched 110cc Dream Yuga for India, & it is their cheapest motor bike ever. This move was trigged by the goal of the company to double their revenues that were generated from motor cycle sales in India & to compete along with Hero MotoCorp. Limited. This company will now focus on market of India for next ten years with expected export increase to 150,000 motor bikes by the year 2013 from about 111,000 bikes in the last year. This company expects about 30 percent of the revenues from the motorcycles to get generated from India by the year 2020 as compared to current level of 13 percent. This new bike is priced @ INR 44,642 (or US $819) in showrooms of New Delhi. This company expects sale of 300,000 units for Dream Yuga in the year 2012. Motorbikes are preferred most in India due to the fuel [...]
Honda Motor Co sees 30 pc motorbike revenue from India by 2020Posted at May 24th, 2012 in NewsHonda Motor Co launched their 1st mass-market motor cycle in India & their cheapest motor bike world wide recently, as it looks to tap the emerging low-cost markets including doubling the share of India of the motor cycle revenue by the year 2020. Honda, ended their 26-years joint venture along with India Hero MotoCorp in the month of March in last year with $851 million deal, recently announced fresh investment about 20 billion rupees (or $373 million) and it is now looking to get better of the former partner, which is current leader of market. Honda’s 110cc Dream Yuga motor cycle, it’s first for India’s 75-125cc segment of commuter, will be starting @ Rs. 44,642 (or $830) & will be competing along with Splendor brand of Honda, which is biggest-selling bike in India. Honda is expecting India to account for [...]
Audi e-bike breaks all speed limitsPosted at May 22nd, 2012 in NewsWe got to take one close look at Audi e-bike about a couple of days ago. However, we missed on some thing that may be a game changer potentially. Audi e-bike, apparently, is quick enough for getting caught by any speed camera. It’s said that electric motor inside this machine can make the bike run at high speeds of about 50mph. This means wearing helmets are important particularly for the ones who are living in the developing countries where wearing helmets isn’t mandatory. Your legs get a lot of rest because there isn’t any pedaling involved here. You get to choose from five modes of cycling and it includes the one which just relies on the muscle power. Other one is electric motor which bears brunt of all the work. As a customer, you get an option of getting mixture for both and this will benefit the rider and bicycle. [...]
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 [...]
