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Motorcycle Auctions

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This weekend, the Monterey Classic Bike Auction will be held in conjunction with the U.S. Grand Prix at Laguna Seca. After all, if you have a huge crowd of motorcycle enthusiasts all revved up and gathered together, why not give them a chance to spend a little money and buy the bike of their dreams? The lineup is pretty amazing as we've mentioned before, including the Ducati … [Read more...]

Selling Motorcycles in China

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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 BMW, too, have high hopes of selling motorcycles into this huge … [Read more...]

Wakan 1640 – New French V-Twin Motorcycle

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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 company known for some excellent trials motorcycles, and … [Read more...]

Traction Control Legal for AMA Superbike and Formula Xtreme

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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 Superstock, which of course is a backwards way of saying it IS allowed for AMA … [Read more...]

Hyanide and Baal – Others Finally Notice

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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 into our comment section to address … [Read more...]