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Piaggio X10 GT ScooterFirst Tango in Paris: Piaggio’s all-new X10 scooter gets Bruno giddy.
Piaggio’s new X10 scooter was unveiled at EICMA last November, but it was kind of overshadowed by the lovely Vespa Quarantasei retro/future concept. Too bad! After a riding preview through the most prestigious boulevards of Paris, I must humbly reckon that the X10 deserved a lot more attention by the easily distracted media people, yours truly [...]
Will The Motorcycle Of The Future Come From Pasadena?Italian motorcycle designer Miguel Galluzzi talks two-wheel transportation.
Piaggio is the Italian aircraft manufacturer that brought 16 million Vespa scooters into the world starting in 1946. Scooters were inexpensive, easy to use and seen as cute and chic. Today, Piaggio also owns Aprilia and Moto Guzzi, and in 2011, it delivered 100,000 two-wheelers of all kinds. Because it intends to remain in business [...]
2013 BMW C650GT and C600 Sport – First RideBMW takes aim at big-city traffic with a pair of 100-plus-mph cross-category two-wheelers.
Urban planners project that in fewer than 20 years, 60 percent of the world’s population will live in “megacities.” In the Fifties, only two metropolitan areas, Tokyo and New York, had 10 million-plus inhabitants. A little more than a decade from now, the number of such cities is expected to be a dozen times that, [...]
Rucking Amok in L.A.Rook up and Ruck Around! It’s the Inaugural CW Ruck-Out!
Photography by Jeff Allen The motorcycles we usually write about are for exploring outer space—as in, the roads outside the city. The Angeles Crest Highway, for instance, which crawls up and out of L.A. over the San Gabriel Mountains—an awesomely twisting two-lane escape hatch many residents don’t know exists. To grasp the size of this [...]
I Like My EICMAThe take-away from my three-day getaway at the world’s biggest bike show.
Photography by Jeff Allen After only a couple days in Milano at the world’s biggest motorcycle show, in the world’s hippest fashion capitol, I have to say I have never felt so short, old, unkempt and uncool in my entire life. I don’t know what they feed the Italian women to make them grow so [...]
