Proton, sponsors of the Kenny Roberts MotoGP team and controlling interest in MV Agusta, recently made a bid to buy into Ducati. They have abandoned those plans and intend instead to concentrate on growing their other motorcycle brands. They are the biggest carmaker in SE Asia and are planning to use the Agusta brand on [...]
January 2005
Over the last week or so I’ve been thinking and writing about motorcycle engines and I came across this series of columns by Marc Cook over at AVweb. Being an aviation web site his columns look at engines from that perspective and he examines the actual differences between motorcycle and airplane engines and the reasons [...]
An interesting post over at Marginal Revolution notes that predictions of future transportation always have a lot of “gee whiz” yet when we finally arrive at the time of the predictions, things look a lot like they were. Is it steady progress that makes the changes seem small or are things really not changing much? [...]
For those of you up in the northeast where we are, don’t forget to check out the Cleveland stop of the International Motorcycle Show this weekend. It’s usually a pretty good time with a lot of bikes on display. The show is at the I-X center right next to the Cleveland airport. I’ll be there [...]
