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The Ninja ZX-6R’s lean physique is fundamental to its light handling, with every component on the bike carefully scrutinized for minimal weight. The intake resonator box and supports for the instrument panel and mirrors are unitized with the enlarged -to optimize intake volume – Ram Air duct, contributing to weight savings and improving rigidity. Camshafts are made of lightweight chrome-moly steel, and light, magnesium engine covers all add up to big weight savings, along with transmission, oil pump and starter gears carefully engineered for maximum strength and minimal weight.In addition to its more than healthy bottom-end torque and smooth throttle response, the engine’s mid-range performance benefits from a similar number of refinements, including double-bore velocity stacks with inlets at two different heights, special-profile pistons with low piston-ring tension for reduced friction, and advanced cam chain guides for excellent cam-chain stabilization.
That strong mid-range provides great drive out of corners and is harmonized with the engine’s silky smooth high-rpm performance. This linear throttle torque delivery results in unparalleled controllability and offers the rider precise throttle control at all rpm. This predictability pays dividends when making mid-corner power adjustments. When combined with the reduced need to downshift provided by its healthy mid-range performance, the predictable throttle response makes it easier for riders to maintain their rhythm when stringing corners together.After having to handle some technical issues with the intake valve springs that has delayed the public launch of the machine, the British division of Kawasaki announced its very much anticipated 2011 Ninja ZX-10R model is scheduled for introduction this month.
While we have been thinking about Christmas and the New Year at this festive time, a team of engineers in Japan have been exhaustively testing new high performance components for the stunning new Ninja ZX-10R. With the dealer launch of this and other incoming range models on 27 January across the UK, this news is the best possible start to 2011 for Kawasaki dealers and riders,” stated Sales and Marketing Manager for Kawasaki Motors UK, Michael Johnstone.
Japanese manufacturers didn’t quite focused on producing 250cc sportbikes these last years, Kawasaki remaining the only bike builder with such a motorcycle on sale today for the U.S. market. The smart choice was to keep producing and yet improving this icon, and this way it managed to dominate the American market at the given category. By using a perfect combination of rider-friendly engine, easy to operate chassis, and modern design, this Ninja is a true companion on your road towards bigger motorcycles, like the ZX-6R and ZX-10R.
Also new for 2008 are the larger 17-inch wheels that, apart from offering a big-bike look, also contribute at offering great handling and improved stability.
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The Piaggio Carnaby Scooter is the latest high-wheel scooter from Piaggio designed to provide a relaxing ride for the urban atmosphere. The Piaggio Carnaby promises a consistently smooth and enjoyable ride with its' wide two-tone seat, two helical spring shock absorbers, robust chassis, combined with large diameter 16" wheels and tyres. Powered by a 125cc engine , the Carnaby offers nippy acceleration and may by the perfect solution for city traffic and parking. Other cool features include an Easy Start Electronic anti-theft system with remote control, child seat with foot-rest belt, front and rear disc brakes which provide easier and safer stopping power, low-effort central stand, and one-lock top case to quickly retrieve your belongings. The Piaggio Carnaby Scooter offers original modern styling, is available in 125 and 200 versions, and comes in Excalibur Grey and Graphite Black. It's a great sporty way to get around, especially in America, and it will save you money at the pump. Piaggio.
The PIAGGIO MP3 comes into its own when heading out of town. Its road grip, cornering safety and tilt angle of up to 40 per cent are unprecedented for a scooter, adding to the pleasure of riding different road surfaces at high speed.
Piaggio launched the first Vespa model — and with it the scooter phenomenon — in the spring of 1946. The scooter revolutionised personal transport, giving Europeans a sense of utter freedom. Sixty years on, Piaggio has come up with another revolutionary product: the PIAGGIO MP3, a totally innovative three-wheeler with two front wheels. The PIAGGIO MP3 provides safety, road grip and stability levels that no two-wheeler can match. Power, performance and ease of use make for a very entertaining ride.
Piaggio MP3 scooterIn town and city traffic the PIAGGIO MP3 has no equal in terms of safety. It takes on cobblestone streets, patchy asphalt and tram tracks with the greatest of ease, remaining safe and stable all the while. With its compact super-scooter size and exceptional manoeuvrability, the PIAGGIO MP3 is at home in town traffic. It’s a cinch to park: an electro-hydraulic suspension locking system means there is no need to put the vehicle on its stand.
Honda Phantom is the most popular big motorbike in Thailand and chosen as favorite touring bike. Built under license here in Thailand they are tough bikes, ultra reliable with a very good turn of speed and above all very comfortable to ride. Also, in the very unlikely event of mechanical failure they can be repaired almost anywhere in Thailand.
Honda Phantom
Honda Phantom
This my first review of a scooter in more than ten years of writing 2strokebuzz. My first scooter was a vintage Vespa and have pretty much stuck to what I know. I’ve taken a few spins on various modern scooters, and have been impressed by some, and not by others. The Blur impressed me.
New scooters appear on the international market often, and usually by the time they arrive in the United States (if they ever do arrive here), they’ve been analyzed to death by the European press and we know all about them. 2strokebuzz has reported on several new bikes recently, in some cases before the manufacturers even announced them, but it will be months before we see a Piaggio MP3, for instance, in person. Kymco flying 2strokebuzz to a press junket in Taiwan for a long weekend seems realistic only when you compare it to the even-smaller odds of Piaggio flying me to Pisa.
Ever since Genuine announced this spring they’d be importing the PGO Bubu (as the Buddy) and PMX (as the Black Cat), we heard that more PGO models would follow. The Buddy arrived in early June to almost universally positive word-of-mouth. Genuine’s P.J. Chmiel had extensively test-ridden the PGO G-Max, and I hoped it would be the next Genuine model (though some held out hope for the three-wheeler). When the Blur was announced early this month, I correctly guessed its identity as the G-Max. (The Rattler, Genuine’s version of the PGO PMS, was apparently announced simultaneously, though we were a couple days late on that one). We talked to Roy Park at Genuine Scooters and he offered us a close look and a short ride at the No Direction Home rally in Minneapolis, a few days later.
Genuine Scooter Company, of Chicago Illinois, is a newer sister company of Scooterworks USA, who has been selling vintage scooter parts for almost 20 years. Genuine started up their company around the Stella, a rebadged LML Star, which is an Indian copy of the Vespa PX150. The Stella proved to be immensely popular, outselling similar scooters from Bajaj and even Vespa themselves. Unfortunately, LML was a bit unpredictable and occasional quality issues were followed by a labor lockout at the factory that have, barring a miracle at this point, brought an end to the model.
Design-wise, the bike is quite modern-looking, which I prefer to the many “retro” scooters out there. “Vintage” is great, “modern” is great, but I can’t get into “retro.” While not as “out-there” as the Italjet Dragster, which still looks futuristic ten years after its introduction, the style of the Blur mimics that of the popular Gilera Runner or the Peugeot Jet Force (both highly-regarded, but unavailable in the U.S.). While certain cues were clearly borrowed from each of those scooters, it’s unfair to call the Blur a “knock off” or “copy,” it is an entirely original, if a bit derivative, design, unlike the hundreds of “fake Vinos” out there.
The Blur also avoids the “plastic bodywork stuck to a black metal tube frame”-look of many modern scooters. It is plastic bodywork stuck to a black metal tube frame of course, the wide orange center channel bar which appears to be a bit of exposed frame is more or less decorative plastic. Nevertheless, the Blur has a very solid feel, good paint, and the build quality appears high, there are no sloppy punch-outs or wobbly plastic. The decals don’t match the paint exactly, and seem a bit flimsy, but as I said earlier, all the easier to peel

You may recognise the general profile of the Norton rotary racer pictured here, but this isn't an upgraded, roadgoing F1 or one of the original racebikes. It's a new version of the liquid-cooled, twin rotor racer. This revised NRV 588 is the work of Brian Crighton, the man who originally persuaded Norton's Shenstone factory to start racing its rotary-engined machines in 1987. Their presence set British racetracks alight, drawing huge crowds and Crighton's peak achievement was in 1994, when his Nortons sponsored by Duckhams Oils dominated the UK's premier Superbike championship. The winner that year was Ian Simpson, with team mate Phil Borley only missing second place by one point.
t's been 20 years since the rotary engine invented by German engineer Felix Wankel back in 1924 made its motorcycle roadracing debut in 1987. Powering the racebikes of the resurgent Norton factory, the rotary's then-superior performance led to eight years of competition that resulted in successive British roadrace titles, points-scoring GP finishes and victory in the Isle of Man TT against the top superbikes of the day. The fact that each Wankel engine cylinder has only three moving parts that simply rotate-compared with myriad moving pieces in a conventional four-stroke piston engine, many of which run at incredibly high velocities only to stop dead a couple of hundred times a second-makes this a plausibly more efficient mechanical solution. Admittedly, the thorny issue of the bike's exact engine capacity was always a matter of controversy. Because the rotary engine's unique three-sided rotor's power stroke occurs twice during a revolution of the crankshaft (actually called the eccentric shaft, basically a camshaft around which the rotor orbits), some claimed that its displacement should be measured by the single rotor-face-swept area of each of the Norton Wankel's two triangular rotors times two. Nonetheless the rules were massaged on an ongoing basis to make sure the crowd-pleasing Nortons could play their role as British underdogs taking on the might of Japan Inc.
Owensboro, Kentucky) also known as The Kentucky Kid is an American professional motorcycle racer who won the MotoGP World Championship in 2006.As a youth, racing others twice his age in CMRA, Hayden would often start the race from the back of the starting grid while a family or crew member held his bike upright because he could not touch the ground. Later, at age 17, he was racing factory Honda RC45 superbikes while still in high school. In 1999, he won the AMA Supersport championship on board a privateer Honda. In 2001, his first full season as an AMA superbike racer, he came within 40 points of winning the championship, finishing behind only champion Mat Mladin and runner-up Eric Bostrom. The 2002 season, however, would see Hayden answering the bell: he won the Daytona 200 on a Honda Superbike en route to becoming the youngest ever AMA Superbike Champion, defeating reigning treble champion Mat Mladin, among others. He also entered the World Superbike round at Laguna Seca, making a solid 4th in the first race before colliding with Noriyuki Haga in race two.
During preseason testing, Hayden was plagued with problems and routinely finished mid-pack or lower. His major complaint was that the GP09 was "pumping" during corner exits leading to problems with grip. These problems continued throughout preseason testing. During qualifying at the season opener Qatar GP, Hayden suffered back and chest injuries in a major crash. Battered and bruised, Hayden finished 12th in the rain-delayed race just behind former team mate Pedrosa. Despite the setbacks, Hayden seemed optimistic about the results saying "I'm leaving here in a really positive mood and looking forward to Motegi." However, only further disappointment lay in wait for Hayden at Motegi. The Ducati rider had never ridden the bike in the rain and qualified 12th. Then, during the opening lap of the race Hayden was taken out by rookie Yuki Takahashi who plowed through Hayden from the rear. As a result Hayden did not finish the race and slipped further down the standings. The Jerez GP saw Hayden qualify 16th and finish 15th.
Donington Park marked the race debut of Honda's pneumatic-valve engine, which only Hayden is using initially. In the next round at Assen Hayden ran 3rd from the start and was set to finish there until he ran out of fuel at the final corner, due to an electrical system problem which prevented accurate fuel monitoring. Colin Edwards captured Nicky's 3rd place podium moments before Hayden coasted over the line with no power, to finish 4th place. A heel injury sustained in a motocross crash put him out of two rounds.
pearheading Repsol Honda's championship aspirations, and was the only rider to be handed the full 2006 Honda bike during pre-season testing. He led the championship from the third race and looked set to break Valentino Rossi's championship-winning streak. Capturing the championship was not without peril: in the second to last round at Estoril in Portugal, teammate Dani Pedrosa lost the front-end while trying to pass Hayden. The resulting lowside accident took out both bikes. This left Hayden eight points behind Rossi in the championship with one race left to go. In the last race of the season on October 29, 2006 Rossi crashed on lap 5 trying to make up for a poor start. Hayden won the 2006 title that day by finishing 3rd (9.3s) behind race winner Troy Bayliss and Loris Capirossi. Nicky Hayden later commented on the difficulty of having to test parts for the 2007 season whilst simultaneously battling for the 2006 Championship. On September 22, 2006, Hayden signed a two-year agreement that allowed for him to race for and develop with the factory Honda Racing Corporation (HRC) team for the 2007 and 2008 MotoGP seasons. He has already begun testing the new 800 cc Honda RC212V. His MotoGP racing number changed from 69 to 1 for the 2007 season.
2007 started and finished badly for him, with Nicky struggling with performance, and team-mate Dani Pedrosa having showed what the Honda was able to do. A crash at Le Mans dropped him to eleventh in the standings at this stage. However, during testing before Donington, he requested that most of the electronics be switched off and his times improved. His subsequent performance in a wet Donington and a dry Assen showed a slight return to form, challenging for fifth with his trademark sliding and tail-out non-standard lines. However, he ultimately kept crashing, with a pole and 3 podiums but no victories proved to be the worse defence of a championship ever recorded. The 2007 season also saw the release of an authorized biography on Nicky and his brothers--The Haydens: Nicky, Tommy, & Roger, from OWB to MotoGP--timed to coincide with his return to the Red Bull U.S. Grand Prix at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. In 2008, Nicky ran his old number 69 since Casey Stoner earned the right to run the number 1 plate after winning the MotoGP title in 2007.
On August 30, 2009, Hayden finished 3rd at Indianapolis. Hayden finished the 2009 MotoGP championship in 13th place (out of 18), his worst result in 7 years of racing MotoGP. His championship campaign was marked by remarkable misfortune, being speared off the track on three different occasions, resulting in no point scoring races. Yuki Takahashi, Alex De Angelis and Jorge Lorenzo crashed into him at Motegi, Misano and Phillip Island respectively. On 3 September 2009, it was confirmed that Hayden has signed a one year extension of contract with Ducati for the 2010 MotoGP season, ending speculation of a move away from the team. He will partner Casey Stoner once again at the team. During the off-season, Hayden had surgery on his right arm, having been suffering from compartmental syndrome or more commonly known as arm-pump. Early in the 2010 season, Hayden noted that there is pressure from the American audience for one of the three frontrunning American riders (himself and the Tech 3 Yamaha duo of Colin Edwards and Ben Spies) to win a race.