A news item just crossed our desk about Chinese motorcycle exports. Chinese officials were quoted as saying they intended to rectify the disordered export market resulting in low profits for the Chinese motorcycle companies. You need to remember, and as the news item reminds us, this "disordered" market has been the number one exporter of motorcycles worldwide for five years in … [Read more...]
Harley Davidson Police Motorcycle ends?
No more Harley Davidson police motorcycles? I've mentioned police bikes here on several occasions, noting Honda's and BMW's entries in the class, but it wasn't until I noticed a news item from a police department in Oregon, that I heard the HD police bike is no more. They're buying BMWs to replace their Harleys because Harley quit making them. Really? I completely missed that. … [Read more...]
Yamaha drops Gauloises
Yamaha is going smokeless in 2006. A few days ago, Yamaha announced they were ending their sponsorship agreement with Altadis/Seita and their Fortuna and Gauloises brands of cigarettes. Evidently there has been a dispute between the parties which, according to Altadis/Seita, has not yet been resolved and may end up in court, but Yamaha seems to have made up their mind. The … [Read more...]
Motorcycle Air Pollution – part 2
Jennifer, one of our readers, was kind enough to link to a chart (reproduced below) of the motorcycles used in the motorcycle air pollution study comparing motorcycles to cars. What jumps out immediately is the year and mileage of the sample vehicles. Of the eight bikes in the test, the newest is a 1999 BMW with 31,474 kilometers. There are 2 1998 models, 1 each 97, 96 and 95 … [Read more...]
Motorcycle air pollution
A group over in Switzerland has just concluded a study and they're pointing their finger at motorcycles as being nasty little air polluters. The study by the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research says motorcycles emit "16 times more hydrocarbons, three times more carbon monoxide and a 'disproportionately high' amount of other air pollutants compared to a … [Read more...]
Aermacchi Motorcycles
Aermacchi isn't a name you see very often these days unless you spend your time at vintage race events but Aermacchi motorcycles are some of the sweetest looking little machines around. Aermacchi made and still makes aircraft over in Italy. Back around 1950, they got into the motorcycle business and started building small displacement motorcycles, somewhere in the 50cc to 350cc … [Read more...]
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