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Yamaha Gen-Ryu hybrid in Tokyo

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The Yamaha Gen-Ryu hybrid motorcycle has that Blade Runner look, the perfect bike to ride while chasing replicants, hybrids in their own right. I didn't notice when I first looked but the front wheel is mounted on a single side. The headlights, all 5 zillion of them, should melt most anything in their path. Is any part of this bike, other than the hybrid power train, … [Read more...]

MAXAM 3000 in Tokyo

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Our intrepid reporter on the scene in Tokyo, was at the Tokyo Motor Show and sent these photos of the MAXAM 3000. I said it was big, but it looks like it's designed to be a 2 wheeled pickup truck! Look at the size of this thing. Take off the covers and you have a truck bed in the back. I wonder if a camper top is available. Maybe it's me but it looks really unwieldy, and did I … [Read more...]

New Yamaha Vmax from Tokyo Motor Show

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The advance ticket holders are already spewing out loads of photos from the Tokyo Motor Show, we hope to have some of our own shortly, but in the meantime, you might like to see these, a design study of a new (hold your breath!) Yamaha VMax! (Or is that a Star Vmax? yuk!) This was noted briefly on the Yamaha website but here are the photos. This is not the final design, … [Read more...]

Gas price roller coaster, just smile.

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Regular gas here is $2.31/gallon at the station I went by this morning and I know some places nearby are probably a little less. I already forget exactly what it rose to but it was well over $3.00 per gallon about a month ago. The market is a beautiful thing, supply goes up, demand goes down, prices fall. I recall the doomsayers seeing $3.00+ gasoline and predicting prices … [Read more...]

Honda DN-01 automatic sports cruiser

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Honda is introducing their DN-01 concept motorcycle at the Tokyo Motor Show. It's powered by a water cooled 680cc v-twin connected to a continuously variable transmission and their goal is to introduce this to the market in the near future, so this is no pure design exercise. The CVT is actually called an HFT (Human Fitting Transmission) with two modes, either fully … [Read more...]