Archive for June, 2012

  • Bieda’s wants to sport motorbikes
    Ronald Roy recently applied for amendment of zoning for permitting motor cycle sales & service @ Biedas Powersports @ 952 Foss Rd. @ Fenwick. This property is zoned now Agricultural A-51, permitting different uses that are related to the agriculture and snow mobile, all-terrain vehicles & Sea-Doo sales & service, activity area & area of open space. The town staff is recommending that the use of paved track @ rear of property for being limited to the test rides for the motorcycles & that the racing should get stopped. Public meeting for application rezoning failed in drawing any one to the town hall on Monday. Roy had told town council’s committee of planning that track hasn’t been used for the racing as it was couple of years ago. Coun of Ward 1, Richard Rybiak told that the neighbors in this area were a lot  [...]
    Posted at June 27th, 2012 in News
  • 2012 Suzuki DR-Z400S Review
    Balancing demands of the street & off-road rides is dual-purpose motor cycle’s cross for bearing. Some of the D-P bikes list along with the emphasis that is given for 1 discipline or other, like Husqvarna’s TE 250 which is just a dirt bike having requisite minimal legalities. But DR-Z400S of Suzuki, however, combines worlds of the off-road & the street riding along with equilibrium that is unmatched by the competing models. DR-Z is the D-P bike of the Japanese origin displacing 400 cc. Kawasaki & Honda skirt this category along with the offerings for 230 cc (for Honda only), 650 cc, and 250 cc displacements and Yamaha gives 200 cc & 2 250 cc bike models. The Euro makers like Husqvarna, Beta, and KTM make machines that are comparable in 350 cc, 450 cc, and 310 cc and 350 cc displacements respectively but  [...]
    Posted at June 21st, 2012 in Suzuki
  • “Blade Runner” motorbikes on sale in Glasgow
    Not a lot of the vehicles will cause the grown men for walking out of the pubs & cross traffic road just for asking driver what on the earth are they driving. However, this was an experience that was perched upon different Can-am Spyder – 3 wheeled motor bike which you’d ride along with driving license of regular car. Finnieston dealer ship ATV Adventure Xtreme is only place at Scotland which sells the bikes which are head-turning. Manufacturer by an Canadian maker; they are really huge hit in Germany and France & are now starting for growing in terms of popularity in here. We have visited dealership for trying out bikes which has 2 wheels on front & 1 at back and for finding out how they are received by the motorists Glaswegian. The owner of dealership Glen Miller aged 49 said that there aren’t a lot of  [...]
    Posted at June 19th, 2012 in News
  • 2013 Honda Metropolitan Review
    Now days, people are really keeping the money closer to the heart than before. For going from one point to the other, particularly if you are living in huge metropolitan city, just hopping in car is not always a very economical answer. What should you do while taking any car seems like an overkill but it is very far for walking, very hilly for bicycling, & public transportation is really inconvenient? Oh, & you are also short on you’re also strapped for the cash. Honda says that it has an answer in 2013 Honda Metropolitan. That is powered by 50 cc SOHC, 2-valve, four-stroke air-cooled Single, this new version ditches carburetor for fuel injection. Due to this things get really reliable little scoot which meets the future regulations of emissions while sipping the fuel gently: Honda is estimating that such setup will  [...]
    Posted at June 15th, 2012 in Honda
  • Downtown luxury motor bike shop expands
    This year will mark tenth anniversary of the motor bike speed shop & dealer ship The Transportation Revolution New Orleans. Commemorative birthday is mile stone for local business of family that’s becoming big player for development of new industry in this region. TTRNO’s recent expansion does include the new Motorbike Speed Shop @ NOLA Motor sports Park. This firm opened up as the Vespa Orleans at Mid-City in the time of July 2002 from Stephen Materne and Gayle after this couple had fallen in love along with 2 wheeled automobiles on family trip at Italy. With return of Vespa for US market in the year 2001, post hiatus of 20 years, Maternes saw it as opportunity for bringing lifestyle of scooter to 1 of European cities of the country. Along with rise in the demand for the Vespas in this city, business had fast out  [...]
    Posted at June 14th, 2012 in News
  • Kiwi design attracts motorbike world’s attention
    Massey’s stylish design of motorbike catches the notice of Honda. ASoD or Massey University Auckland School of Design has a lot of European designers & Honda take some notice. In one project that got initiated by senior lecturer at ASoD – Oliver Neuland, along with help & some input from Paolo Cuccagna, chief designer & manager @ Honda department of R&D at Rome, they had asked lot of students of Massey for sketching new motorcycle concept.  Neuland has experience for design of motorcycle in Europe as the designer @ BMW, MZ, & consultant at Aprillia. He has worked on a lot of BMW models like C1, R1100R, & F650 before they moved to New Zealand for becoming programme leader @ campus of Massey’s Albany. This brief was for designing small commuter capacity motorbike for the Generation Z, aged  [...]
    Posted at June 12th, 2012 in News
  • 2012 Piaggio Typhoon 125
    Latest trend amongst the car manufacturers is now reaching coveted mark of 40 mpg. It is really nice, round number till now exceeding what the sedans – even miserly ones – are capable of just few years ago. With the gas prices which aren’t getting cheaper, it is really easy to see why the fuel efficiency is now really important. We motor cyclists have touted virtues of 2-wheel economy of fuel forever, & 2012 Piaggio Typhoon 125 is latest example of why. Piaggio claims that Typhoon achieves astonishing speed of 90 mpg from the small 124 cc four-stroke, single-cylinder engine. We assume that the rider is really delicate along with controls & he avoids continued the high speeds for achieving maximum of fuel economy. With our testing of real-world, which had involved twisting throttle to stop very frequently  [...]
    Posted at June 9th, 2012 in Piaggio
  • Pfeiffer, stunt star will perform at Silverstone GP
    Pfeiffer, stunt star will perform at Silverstone GP. 4 times world stunt champ Chris Pfeiffer will be amongst highlights in this year’s Grand Prix at Silverstone British. The stunt show take place before race of MotoGP on 17th June on Sunday & it adds to big line-up of the free entertainment over weekend, like – Saturday evening Party of Grand Prix featuring appearances on-stage & interviews along with current riders of MotoGP; music from the bands which includes Marner Brown, James Toseland’s Crash, The Rain Band, Missing Andy, Felix Fables & The Strikes; further shows of stunt from Broke FMX, Craig Jones, & Animal Bike Tour; along with aerobatic displays by Red Bull Matadors & The Black Knights, The Royal Artillery Parachute Display Team. Apart from this, Silverstone’s new policy of ‘kids  [...]
    Posted at June 7th, 2012 in News
  • Brad Pitt visits London dealership
    Staff at dealership of London motorcycle was star struck after Brad Pitt walked in their showroom recently. The famous Hollywood actor had popped in to HGB Motorcycles at Ruislip & bought Bell Helmet & gloves of Alpinestars Kevlar. Later he posed for pictures. One source at this branch said that they were wondering what was going when 2 huge black cars had pulled up on the outside and there were plenty of bodyguards accompanying the automobiles. Then they saw Brad Pitt come out of the car and they couldn’t believe their eyes. The star from Hollywood has one house at Surrey along with Angelina Jolie, his wife.
    Posted at June 5th, 2012 in News
  • Honda Makes it Official: 2013 CRF250L Coming to US
    Honda recently announced that CRF250L (which we blogged about in the month of April) will come to US as 2012 model product. This motor bike will have model of the same engine that was found in CBR250R which is tuned for the low end stronger power (along with smaller body of throttle, for example). The price of this product will be $4,499. With claimed weight of curb is about 320 pounds and is about 30 pounds lighter as compared to CBR250R. The weight includes the fluids, and hence dry weight actually should be less than 300 pounds which isn’t bad. The dual sport lacks any kind of adjustment of suspension, except for the preload of rear spring. Small two gallon tank of gas will provide adequate of range along with mileage of fuel estimated in 100 mpg neighborhood. Specifications for the US version of this bike are provided by the  [...]
    Posted at June 1st, 2012 in News