Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Photography by Chris Cantle If ever there were a sportbike that has weathered the test of time in a changing two-wheel climate, it’s the Suzuki GSX-R750. When it first emerged in the European and Canadian markets in 1985 (arriving stateside the following year), it defined what a race-bred superbike should be. Over the years, this [...]
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You asked for it. And you’d better have meant it. Because now you’re getting it. Market research and recent sales trends indicate that sportbike riders crave the raciest motorcycles possible. So with each passing year, high-end sport models become less like everyday streetbikes and more like racebikes and trackbikes. That’s quite evident in the 2009 [...]
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Well, it looks like we all can just get along, after all. AMA Pro Racing, the group that purchased all of professional racing from the American Motorcyclist Association, just announced its roadracing class structure for the 2009 season. From the press release: “American Superbike will be the new premier class for AMA Pro Racing, and [...]
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Kymco stands for "Kyong Yang Motor Corp.," and the Taiwanese firm has been building a name for itself, producing high-value, reasonably priced scooters for the USA for more than 30 years. The People S 50 is the firm’s stab at making a stylish, big-wheeled scoot with a clean and friendly four-stroke powerplant. The large layout [...]
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The Yamaha Vino first appeared in 2001 with a two-stroke engine and vintage Italian styling. Nearly a decade later, the Vino is still around, but it’s powered by a more emissions-friendly, liquid-cooled, three-valve, 49cc four-stroke Single. It’s a tad slower, but this classically styled scoot with chrome accents is still great for running around town. [...]
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Redesigned to be smaller, lighter and more effective than Öhlins’ original off-road-specific steering damper, the SD 2.0 ($683) fits under the handlebar of any late-model 250 or 450cc Honda, Kawasaki, KTM, Suzuki or Yamaha motocrosser. New Uniflow valving always routes the flow of fluid in one direction, eliminating fluctuations in damping action. The 2.0 is [...]
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Welcome to the wading pool of the motorcycle industry, the 50cc scooter market. They also happen to be the best way to get around a crowded urban environment ever devised by human hands. And talk about pinching petrol! Most will return an easy 70 miles or more from a gallon of gas. Take that, OPEC! [...]
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Vespa is synonymous with “scooter,” much the same way we say “Kleenex” instead of “facial tissue.” That bit of linguistic conquest is even more remarkable when you consider that from about 1983 until 2000, you couldn’t evenbuya new Vespa in the U.S. That changed when Vespa’s owner, Piaggio, introduced the ET2 and ET4. The ET2 [...]
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New in 2007, the Yamaha C3 packs plenty of cool features and futuristic styling into a $2099 package. It uses a sophisticated liquid-cooled, four-stroke Single that’s fuel-injected and catalyzed for maximum efficiency and environmental friendliness. There’s a cool, bulbous single headlight, rugged black fork legs and tube-steel chassis. Its boxy truck-styled bodywork features with a [...]
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To offer its customers a classic-styled scoot, Honda put mod plastic bodywork, complete with chrome and two-tone paint onto a tube-steel chassis. That makes the Metropolitan lightweight at a claimed 176 pounds full of fluids. It shares the lowest seat of this bunch with the Yamaha Vino, and everything about it is cheery and unthreatening, [...]
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