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Ducati Monster S4Rs specs

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Ducati sent us all the specs on the new Monster S4Rs and if you dig through everything, what seems to jump out is how much time and effort they put into cleaning everything up for public view. If you take your average fully faired sportbike, strip off the bodywork and view the result, you're likely to see a hodgepodge of wires and cable ties, clamps and unfinished odds and … [Read more...]

Electric motorcycles like hybrid cars too silent?

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Remember when we mentioned the problem with the new ENV hydrogen motorcycle being too silent? You could be zipping down the road and people would walk out in front of you because they never heard you coming. It seems the new hybrid cars are running into the same problem when in their all electric mode. You start backing up in a parking lot and bang!, you hit a pedestrian. … [Read more...]

Big Bear Electric Chopper

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A chopper project dedicated to fallen officers of the California Highway Patrol, has all the usual chopper looks but it's missing something normally associated with bikes like this,... sound. This chopper, looks like it's powered by a 124 cubic inch S&S V twin, but the engine has actually been gutted and the whole bike has been built with batteries and electric motors in place … [Read more...]

THINK! motorcycle safety U.K. Safety Campaign

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There's a new safety campaign just getting under way that our friends in the U.K. might have noticed already, it's called THINK! Motorcycle Safety. They're going to be running a series of TV, radio and print ads, focusing on motorcycle safety for the purpose of raising motorcycle awareness among auto drivers. There are videos on their website showing the TV spots and the one I … [Read more...]

Diesel Motorcycles – here’s a fast one

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We write about diesel motorcycles a lot around here, there's the Thunder Star of course, the D650A1 Bulldog now going into production, the Roush diesel ATV and we mentioned the biodiesel Royal Enfield several days ago. Performance varies all across the spectrum, but if we use the term "diesel fueled" motorcycles, we can add one more, the Y2K Superbike built by Marine Turbine … [Read more...]