Subaru Rally Team USA champion rally drivers Ken Block and Travis Pastrana decide to do a little stunt involving a Impreza WRX STI and a motocross bike for a magazine cover shoot...Enjoy!
As the world moves towards eco-friendly and easy-on-the-wallet modes of transportation and everything from trains to lawn movers are shifting towards alternate sources of energy, a young set of individuals have come out with a cute yet effective automobile.
A group of high school students who are fully aware of the present situation surrounding the auto industry have designed an electric two-wheeler with a roof.
Powered by lithium phosphate batteries with an output of 60 volts, the permanent magnet motor utilizes the power to propel the bike. The recharge time is just about 3 hours and should get you to sit up and notice I say its body is made carbon fiber and Kevlar composite material (stuff that F1 cars are made of). The chassis benefits from chromoly tubing.
On a full charge, the roofed-bike will cruise for 40 long miles with a pedal-to-metal velocity of 60 mph. At those speeds, safety is addressed by a proper seat and seat belts which makes it safer than a normal two-wheeler. The pod will also protect you from the heat and dust on a summer’s day and will help you keep warm during winter time.
While other high-school kids were busy learning to efficiently hit on the good-looking, this team of 19 students toiled hard for a period of one year to see this concept from the state of imagination to reality. What we appreciate is their unique thought process, a green two-wheeler is certainly pointing in the right direction and who knows? there might be a future GM or Honda head among this group of students.
General Motors has announced that it will build a cheap city car for EUR 8,000 using motorcycle parts. This measure will keeps costs down and also make it easier for the manufacturer to put the car together in the assembly stage. Tata Motors were also at some point of time, thinking along those lines during the Nano’s development stage, but the plan was subsequently dropped.
Opel is presently in the "discussion and examination phase" of the project and it will be long before the rear-engined, entry-level car rolls out of their factory. Opel will outsource the parts from either a scooter or motorcycle manufacturer and is also looking at Asian suppliers to help them out. The car is expected to carry a drive train similar to a motorcycles’ and will be ready within a few years time.
If you get pulled over on a California highway next month, you might want to address the officer as "Monsieur le policier."
That’s because 32 French motorcycle officers are trading the cold, gray Parisian winter for sunny, southern California for an 11-day-long training program.
The initiative — the first of its kind between French and American motorcycle police units — starts Jan. 6, France’s national police said in a statement Friday.
The officers belong to traffic units in (...) > Full story
Jeff Goudreau was a longtime Softail rider, but after trying out one of Cory Ness’s rubber mount steeds, he caught the bug to build a machine with the smooth riding quality of Harley’s Dyna, only more stylish: a chopper. And that led him back to his old buddy with an idea-why not make a rubber mount chopper based on Ness’ Y2K frame?
He started by bolting up the rolling chassis. Speedpoint wheels with Avon shoes and Ness/PM brake set ups were mated to the rear swingarm and for the front (...) > Full story
This is AWESOME!
I have never seen a cop handle a bike like this...
This is really impressive.
But i do wonder. Are they really cops, or just moto racing drivers? > Full story
Motorcycle sales in Indonesia soared by 51.4 percent to 528,969 units in November from 349,365 units in the preceding month, local press reported today.
Sales in 11 months ending November totaled 4.02 million, reported leading economic daily Bisnis Indonesia, quoting data from the Indonesian Motorcycle Industries Association (AISI).
PT Astra Honda Motor, the local unit of Japan’s Honda Motorcycle, controlled 52 percent of the market share with 2.1 million units, down from 2.5 million in (...) > Full story
A number of legendary companies will celebrate major motorsports anniversaries in 2007, but few, if any, will have achieved as much success as Brembo has in its relatively short history.
Brembo and its racing subsidiaries are a fascinating success story just 30 years in the making. Although founded in 1961, Brembo began racing in 1975 when Enzo Ferrari entrusted the Bergamo-based, high-performance brake manufacturer with the task of fitting its most prestigious Formula 1 car. Since then, (...) > Full story
For the sixth year, the 10 members of a motorcycle club in the area traded in helmets for Santa hats.
The Iron Wheels Motorcycle Club will be helping 40 children and teens in Wexford County. The group raises money every year to buy toys and gifts for children between the ages of 20 months and 16 years old who are placed in foster care in the Wexford County area.
Wednesday the group wrapped the gifts that they bought. “We raised between $1,800 and $2,000 and Wal-Mart gave us a discount so (...) > Full story
Owners of new 2006 model-year motorcycles are reporting fewer problems with their bikes than they have in the past, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2006 Motorcycle Competitive Information Study(SM) released today.
The study, now in its 9th year, measures ownership experience with new motorcycles and examines the five major components of the overall ownership experience: product; quality; cost of ownership; sales; and service.
Owners report an average of 159 problems per 100 (...) > Full story
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General Motors has announced that it will build a cheap city car for EUR 8,000 using motorcycle parts. This measure will keeps costs down and also make it easier for the manufacturer to put the car together in the assembly stage. Tata Motors were also at some point of time, thinking along those lines during the 
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