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Video: Japanese for "Motorcycle Safety Course"

Friday, June 20, 2008

Akisan sends us this COOL video from Japan. When it first starts up you might shrug your shoulders, but you’ll be smiling by 1:30. This video is actually a bike riding school demonstration. Here you see the instructors showin’ what they got. I think they ride so well because of the low center of gravity […]

Look out for the SWARM!

Friday, June 13, 2008

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“They’re not headed for the shops, they are racing and racing seriously!”Thanks Tim! Looks and sounds AWESOME!

Yamaha has made official it’s 2009 line-up

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Two new models for the new year out of the Yamaha camp. First is a new twist on an old friend… The Zuma! She’ll be available in her traditional, feisty 50cc 2-stroke package and now in her new 125cc 4-stroke configuration (it might make your face hurt).There are a few design changes to the Zuma […]

Dear Honda – Please don’t make a faster Ruckus

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

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They say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, I don’t know who “they” were, but I do know that they were spot-on! It seems nothing has been more inventively inspirational than the slow, slow engine of the Honda Ruckus. I mean, who doesn’t love the Honda Ruckus?! Who doesn’t think it could use a […]

The LA Times – Scooter sales trump motorcycle sales

Thursday, May 22, 2008

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(Nice video with one tiny correction, Kymco People is Taiwan not Korea.) Besides some interesting stats on scooter sales this piece from the LAT compares what is probably the most popular class in the USA right now, the 125-150cc displacement. It’s not so much a shoot-out between the Vespa S, the Kymco People 150 and […]

Wallstreet Journal – Preaches to choir

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

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(This video is only partially related to the story by J.Welsh, but it’s a nice view) Bravo to Jonathan Welsh at the WJS for kicking out a pretty all-encompassing scooter article today. It’s one of those pieces that, if you were just beginning your scooter research, you’d could read it and hold an intelligent conversation […]