Tilting 3 wheelers are getting to be old hat, after Piaggio introduced the MP3, there was a flurry of attention and activity related to the technology and it looks like it works very well. Now both manufacturers and homebuilders are turning out their own versions and there seems to be a ready market. So, yesterday, [...]
January 2009
While digging around looking for information on the Harrier, I noticed this bike, the Triumph Rocket 3 Stellan Edition. It seems Stellan Egeland was commissioned to build a series of 5 custom bikes for Triumph, only for Scandinavia, that will be sold directly from Triumph dealers. If customers in Sweden want a custom from Egeland, [...]
Stellan Egeland of SE Service, who we’ve seen before with some interesting builds like the Esox Lucius and Hulster, has unveiled the Harrier, created from a BMW R1200S. The build might be termed hi-tech radical, especially in relation to his previous work. The photos here, from Fastbikes, don’t show the front suspension clearly enough to [...]
Yamaha posted its first quarterly loss in 4 years. Since Yamaha gets 90 percent of its revenue outside of Japan, the strong yen didn’t help. The company had a fourth-quarter loss of 41.65 billion yen ($467 million) compared with a net income of 3.73 billion yen in the year-earlier period. Full-year net income fell 98 [...]
