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Color Tires for MX, Scooters and ATVs

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Desser Tire and Rubber Company has been offering the Tomahawk colored tires for sportbikes for quite a while here in the U.S. Looking through their site shows they've expanded their lineup to include colored and camo tires for scooters, ATVs and motocross bikes,too. Desser is a leading supplier of aircraft tires, not some fly by night outfit, and their process of … [Read more...]

Mini Sized Ducati Monster

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Start them young, plant the seed in their mind and let it grow. That seems to be Ducati's idea with this little child's version of a Ducati Monster. Instead of little electric cars or trucks, why not start them right with a motorcycle? Ducati Press Release: The "street fighter" for children aged 3 and up Peg Perego, in close cooperation with Ducati, has reproduced a … [Read more...]

Muzzys 500hp ZX10R Turbo Kit

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Muzzys has been a big name in the Kawasaki racing business for a lot of years and there's a good reason for that, they make some pretty cool stuff. They've already made a few things for the new ZX14 but as I was looking over their web site at new products something just stuck out, a turbo kit for the ZX10R. It comes in a Stage 1 and Stage 3 version (hmm ... where's Stage 2?). … [Read more...]

A New Steve McQueen Motorcycle Movie?

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Yes, Steve McQueen has been dead for 25 years, but while he was alive he gathered together notes, photos, clippings and he wrote detailed script ideas for an epic movie called "Yucatan." The material came to the attention of McQueen's son about 10 years ago and he has since put it into the hands of Lance Sloane, a producer who is working on the project with the intention of … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Trends – Rising Trend 1

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We already mentioned what we believe to be two declining trends in motorcycles, one is the racer replica motorcycle designed to be road race ready and pretty darned close to being so, and two is the category killer, the one motorcycle that is so in demand that everyone will want one because of universal appeal. Let's look at the flip side, a rising trend, something that's … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Stunt Bike

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Stunt bikes, you know what those are, Honda CBRs, Suzuki GSX-Rs and lots of other Japanese sportbikes all stripped down and set up to do wheelies, stoppies and a lot of really insane maneuvers most of us would hurt ourselves trying. No one would ever look at a Harley and mistake it for a stunt bike, right? Jason Pullen, former supermotard racer, decided to give it a try when … [Read more...]