Archive for 'Economics and Politics' Category
Motorcycles - Vietnam Trading Up to Cars
7 December 2006We have all seen the images of the streets of Vietnam, packed with scooters and small displacement motorcycles, but those images may be changing. According to a recent article, sales of motorcycles in Vietnam are dropping while sales of cars are on the rise, not really surprising but something to keep in mind for a [...]
Build Your Own Virtual Motorcycle Company
4 December 2006Do you have an idea for a great new motorcycle? Would you like to actually design and build it? We cover a lot of motorcycle builders here on The Kneeslider, from one man garage operations to small custom shops to startups, both well funded and shoestring plus the big guys from Honda to Harley Davidson. [...]
Vietnam Increasing Motorcycle Exports
29 September 2006Another SE Asian country looking to ramp up motorcycle exports is Vietnam. We’ve written about the Vietnamese scooter rebuilding companies trying to make a name for themselves with varying degrees of success, but Vietnam is moving into building and exporting brand new motorcycles, too. It’s not a big industry yet, but you can be sure [...]
The Kneeslider Motorcycle News Updates
26 August 2006Follow up and comments on stories we’ve mentioned before:
The Diesel Quad ATV developed for the military by Roush Technologies with plans for public sale through the Arctic Cat dealer network, has been tested for use with biodiesel. It is now approved for use with 6 types of diesel fuel, (#1 DF 1, #2 DF 2, [...]
How You Can Help Make the GG Quad Street Legal
15 August 2006GG Quad North America, importers of the GG Quad, have a problem. As we noted before, the GG Quad is a great looking machine, the problem is you can’t drive it on the street. It’s already street legal in Europe, Japan, Russia and Dubai but not in the U.S. GG Quad North America has filed [...]
Repair and Restoration - Vespa Scooters
6 August 2006Last week, when discussing motorcycle repair and restoration, I was primarily referring to repairs you would do yourself on a small scale, something anyone could do in their home garage and workshop. These types of repair and restoration projects do not require a shop full of high tech tools but simply the knowledge of how [...]
Chinese Restrict Vehicle Exports
13 July 2006Beginning next year, the Chinese are going to restrict the number of vehicle makers allowed to export. It seems they’ve been getting a bad reputation around the world for dumping low quality vehicles in foreign markets. And, wouldn’t you know it, motorcycles are what got their attention in the first place:
The motorcycle industry provides the [...]
Higher Speeds - Safer Roads
8 July 2006After our discussion of motorcycle top speeds the other day it was interesting that this article appeared addressing the issue of higher speed limits. The gist of the article is that as speed limits have increased, highway deaths have gone down, something you never hear from the bureaucrats who want to control your behavior “for [...]
