Motorcycle Ratings and Reviews
Beginning June 3, electric-motorcycle pioneers Moto-Electra and a team of James Madison University engineering students will make an attempt on the U.S. coast-to-coast record for electric vehicles. Their machine, built on a traditional Norton “featherbed” chassis with sleek replica John Player Norton streamlining, will be ridden by ex-racer Thad Wolff. The present record stands at [...]
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In Northern Europe, the best-laid plans of MotoGP teams can always be washed away by rain. Current series champion Jorge Lorenzo said after practice at Le Mans that his main task was “to improve the bike to keep a more consistent pace. I think we’ve got it.” In dry qualifying, however, Repsol Honda’s Marc Marquez [...]
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What is this new Honda motorcycle with the Middle Earth name, Grom? It looks like a sportbike, but it’s small, powered by a little 125cc engine, making what, 10 horsepower? That means it’s not going to humiliate you by wheelying when all you were doing was checking for clearance in the throttle cable. Lots of [...]
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Almost half of a motorcycle’s weight is engine, but a car’s engine is closer to being a mere 15 percent. Therefore, a motorcycle decelerates much faster on closed throttle than does a car and faster yet when downshifted. Yet no brake light is shown when these things occur because conventional brake lights are triggered only [...]
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Well, what are we seeing? One popular theory is that MotoGP rookie phenomenon Marc Marquez has redefined everything, but clearly, his Repsol Honda teammate, Dani Pedrosa, has other plans, as the race finish this past weekend in Jerez, Spain, was Pedrosa, Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo (with Marquez dramatically bouncing off Lorenzo in the middle of [...]
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We knew it had to happen. The generation-long “Easy Riders” orthodoxy of custom-bike design has finally sputtered out, setting people free to build whatever they like. Remember that word, freedom? It means no one laughs and points if you fail to include a bellowing Harley-Davidson engine in the middle, with a Schwinn wheel way out [...]
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We’ll soon know more about Suzuki’s 2014 MotoGP bike, as that Japanese company plans three public and two private European tests beginning in June. About the current machine, factory test rider and GP veteran Nobuatsu Aoki is quoted as saying, “They made a lot of design changes.” Differences we can see in these recent photos [...]
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Mahindra is India’s 21st-largest corporation, manufacturing cars, trucks and the tractors that are being exported to (and built in) the U.S. For the leadership of such large corporations, having something international, like Tata Motors’ ownership of Jaguar/Land Rover, confers satisfying special prestige. For Mahindra, that prestige is its Moto3 team, which, at the first Grand [...]
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Marc Marquez was naturally asked about his elbow-on-the-pavement riding style in the MotoGP press conferences last weekend at Circuit of The Americas. Who remembers today, but Jean-Phillipe Ruggia first did this on a 250cc GP bike back in 1988. Marquez replied that, “I like the elbow, because when I feel it touch, I go down [...]
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Twenty-year-old MotoGP rookie sensation Marc Marquez and his Repsol Honda teammate, Dani Pedrosa, dominated Sunday’s race at Circuit of The Americas near Austin, Texas. Yet they did not win by the crushing 15 seconds that had looked likely after practice and qualifying ended on Saturday afternoon, when the Hondas appeared all but out of reach. [...]
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