July 2006

Selling Motorcycles in China

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/19/2006

in China, Motorcycle Business

So many times in the past, we’ve commented on all of the companies charging into China in the hopes of selling to the vast numbers of new, up and coming motorcycle buyers. If sales are flat or rising slowly elsewhere, surely, setting up shop in China will solve that problem. Harley Davidson most recently and [...]

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A new motorcycle company from France? It looks that way and their first bike is pretty sweet. Wakan Motorcycles has produced the Wakan 1640, a single seat, V-Twin powered sport bike built around the AC Cobra idea of dropping a big American powerplant into a sporty European frame. Joel Domergue, the man behind Scorpa, a [...]

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Traction Control Legal for AMA Superbike and Formula Xtreme

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/17/2006

in Motorcycle Racing

The new AMA rules committee just met for the first time last Thursday and already they have made a change that was rumored and then denied just one month ago. According to Cycle News, a notice went out this morning with a rules change that states traction control is not allowed for AMA Supersport and [...]

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Hyanide and Baal – Others Finally Notice

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/16/2006

in Alternative thinking, Motorcycle Design

It looks like Popular Science finally discovered what The Kneeslider reported on six months ago. Back in January, we reported on the Michelin Challenge Design 2006 where two tracked motorcycle designs were introduced, the Hyanide and the Baal. We thought they were pretty cool and if you noticed, Tilmann Schlootz, one of the designers, jumped [...]

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