Don’t sell your gasoline powered vehicles just yet, there’s a barrel or two of oil still out there and as prices rise, more of those barrels will appear in the pipeline as new resources become profitable. I mentioned oil shale or tar sands before but if you never bothered to look into it, you really [...]
October 2005
Yamaha just held the YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005, where technicians from 23 countries competed against one another to see who fared best. From the news release: The contents of this year’ s contest included (1) a written test of technology, product and motorcycle industry knowledge (60 min.), (2) a practical skills test of [...]
When many of us hear the words jetbike or turbine powered bike, we think of Jay Leno riding around on his megabuck two wheeler powered by a helicopter turbine. Now that’s a very neat bike and given the opportunity, I’d love to ride it. Most of us, though, have far less money but some guys [...]
Ducati is previewing two new motorcycles at Birmingham. From the press release: In the run-up to the presentation of its complete Model Year 2006 range at EICMA in Milan from 15 to 20 November, Ducati chose the prestigious Motorcycle and Scooter Show in Birmingham (UK) to preview two of its new models due out next [...]
