Star Motorcycles has just announced their 2010 Virtual Bike Show and 2011 Calendar Contest. Now in its 5th year, the contest provides Star owners a chance to show their personalized Star Motorcycle to the world. The Virtual Bike Show features more than 1600 entries and winners for your viewing pleasure. It’s easy to enter. Visit […]
For those who regularly peruse my reviews of two-wheeled transport, it’s certainly no secret that I’m a much bigger fan of standard motorcycles and of the cruiser genre than I am of all-out sport bikes. There’s nothing wrong with sport bikes mind you, but lately I seem to be getting more than my share of […]
What is BRP’s Can-Am Spyder? Is it a motorcycle? No. Is it a trike? Guess again – trikes have three wheels, but their two wheels are in the rear, rather than up front as on the Spyder. Is it a Roadster? Well, though BRP refers to the Spyder as a Roadster, it doesn’t come across […]
Generally speaking, when one thinks of Italian two-wheeled transportation, several names instantly come to mind: for instance, Aprilia, Ducati and Moto Guzzi on the motorcycle scene, and Piaggio or Vespa in the scooter marketplace. In fact, for decades, Vespa scooter models and other scooter models made by Piaggio, Vespa’s parent company which is also now […]
First off, the DN-01 designation comes from “Dream New Concept 1”, and despite its Continuously Variable Transmission (which Honda refers to as a Human Friendly Transmission) with a six-speed manual mode and Sport automatic mode, and the fact that it sounds kind of like one; it’s definitely not a scooter. Think of the DN-01 as […]
Should you happen to be a biker, as in the motorized kind and if you’re also an environmentalist at heart, there’s great news for you. Whether you like to get down and dirty riding off-road, or you’re more in tune with conventional street riding, ZERO motorcycles, based in Santa Cruz, CA offers bikes for either […]
