Mac motorcycles were on the verge of starting production of their awesome Modern Cafe Racer style custom motorcycles when Buell announced the death of the of the Blast (in quite spectacular fasion). The Buell Blast was originally released in 2000. It was the smallest CC and only single cylinder (thumper) to be produced by Harley Davidson since 1978. The Blasts 500CC, air cooled, OHV single was to be...
The YSP-4000 Digital Sound Projector offers versatile new features such as, 1080p-compatible HDMI, analog video to HDMI digital video up-conversion, and component / composite inputs. Other features include iPod and XM HD surround compatibility, built-in FM tuner, RS-232C for custom installation and a wide variety of beam settings, including My Surround Beam, for [...]
Regular readers of my blog will know that I'm not you're ordinary scrapbooker, heck I'm not a normal girl either! One of my other hobbies besides scrapbooking, cardmaking, digital, and working out is... dirtbiking. Now I haven't been doing it all that long, maybe 3 years now? But I REALLY enjoy it! I started out with my Yamaha TTR 125cc and I had that a year before I outgrew it. So I upgraded to a...
. My friend PistonPete and Lulu came to visit and this time he brought the bikes with! Now it is being said that Lulu is a newbie rider, although she is a veteran of the Cederberg and even the road to Eselbank. So a little ride on Saturday was in order to show her around the Garden Route. A Wild Dog braai on Friday night ensured that we got a nice little group together. I chose a route that would take...
The idea behind the Yamaha YBR125 Custom is dead simple: take the straightforward YBR125 commuter, customize it a bit with high bars, more chrome and a lower seat, bump up the price a tad, and there you go, a pointlessly...
Ben Spies’ initiation with the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team concluded at the Valencia test with the American extremely satisfied with his continued adaptation to the YZR-M1.
Yamaha Racing Ben Spies played a starring role on the second day of MotoGP testing in Valencia today, the Texan producing another confident and assured performance on his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1 machine....
Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo were both impressed with the response of their prototype Yamaha YZR-M1 machines on the first day of testing at Valencia.
Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo were both impressed with the response of their prototype Yamaha YZR-M1 machines on the first day of testing at Valencia.
The JGR/ Toyota Motocross bike concept unveiled at SEMA had a whole lot to show, by way of Toyota logos. This lightweight motorcycle was built by putting the 2009 Yamaha YZ450F on a diet, where the motorcycle lost a lot of weight. Toyota’s concept..
T oday I got a chance to ride my buddy's Goldwing. He has a 2009 model year. I only took it around the neighborhood where he lives. But I was really impressed with how well it handled, and how so well balanced it rode. I could do tight turns more easily than I could on my Electra Glide Ultra Classic. I'm so accustomed to riding my Ultra, that riding a Goldwing feels so much different. In fact, anytime...
Colin Edwards qualified on the second row of the grid in Valencia today to give his hopes of securing a brilliant top five finish in the 2009 MotoGP world championship a huge boost. At a sunny but windswept Ricardo Tormo circuit, Edwards took full advantage of improvements with the front-end handling of his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 YZR-M1 machine to set the fifth quickest time.
Ben Spies showed why he’s so highly rated by Yamaha after he qualified in the top ten in Valencia today after just three hours on board a YZR-M1 machine. The Texan, who recently clinched Yamaha’s first World Superbike title, clocked...
You would think that the secrets of how to make a MotoGP bike go faster would be kept under lock and key at all times. Not so if you're Yamaha: On Friday night, Yamaha's technical leaders Masao Furusawa and Masahiko Nakajima gave their annual presentation on what they did to the YZR-M1 to ensure that they won the championship again in 2009. The first thing they did was identify the changes to the...
Hero Honda Luanched Hero Honda Karizma ZMR | Karizma ZMR Price Hero Honda (Photos) Hero Honda has launched the revamped version of its performance motorcycle, the Karizma ZMR. Introduced at a price of Rs 91,000 ex-showroom Delhi, the new bike will go up against the likes of other performance bikes in the Indian market such as the Bajaj Pulsar 220 DTSi and the Yamaha YZF-R15. Read More From Orginal
Yamaha VMAX Technical Specifications | Yamaha VMAX Price Rs 20 Lacs Japanese two wheeler major Yahama today launched its super-bike 'VMAX' in the country priced at Rs 20 lakh (ex-showroom-Delhi). The company also launched limited edition of its 'FZ' series in three variants. The new VMAX comes with a 1,679 cc engine. Definite to create a rage, this super bike comes with more horsepower with its 200
Who would have thought that when Fiat relaunched its Abarth performance division, it would lead to the production of an offshore inflatable speedboat? Abarth, the scorpion sub-brand, has also produced the special-edition Yamaha FZ1 Abarth Assetto Corse to celebrate the 100th birthday of its namesake founder Karl Abarth.