Archive for February, 2009
2009 Harley-Davidson XR 1200 hitting the U.S. streets
Last year, Harley-Davidson made a very pleasant surprise to fans when launching the XR 1200, a motorcycle strongly inspired by the legendary XR 750 that wrote history at Flat Track racing in the 1970s. The prototype’s presentation took place at the 2006 Intermot show in Koln, but the XR 1200 would have hit Europe’s streets [...]
2009 Star Stratoliner Review
Star produces the Stratoliner and Stratoliner S models in parallel and with great success thanks to the different customer preferences that often appear in the case of such motorcycles. The Stratoliner is the basic model powered by the consecrated 113-cubic-inch, air-cooled, 48-degree V-twin; pushrod OHV, 4 valves/cylinder engine that is fed through a twin-bore fuel-injection [...]
Harrison Ford rides a BMW
Harrison Ford has recently been spotted riding his BMW F800GS R1200GS and it looks like he’s enjoying it a lot. Although not a notorious motorcyclist from Hollywood, Ford gives an important lesson of motorcycle safety as he wears the entire protective gear in a sunny day. The bike looks like brand new (or maybe it [...]
CR&S to build Café Racer Around S&S X-Wedge engine
The word is out that the Italians form Café Racers and Superbikes are undergoing a café racer project based on an approximately 2 liters big S&S X-Wedge engine. Performance is clearly what they aim for and the Marvic wheels, Brembo brakes as well as the large diameter Ceriani inverted fork also show that, but in [...]
Kawasaki goes ECO2Logic
Kawasaki stands for green, just like Yamaha does for blue, Honda for red and Suzuki mostly for yellow, but that isn’t enough for Mother Nature and the stricter CO2 emission norms in Europe are showing Kawasaki the way to green engines as well. So Kawasaki developed what they like to call their ‘ECO2Logic’ technology and [...]
Kawasaki Versys Tourer heads into production
Kawasaki starts producing the Versys Tourer after receiving positive feedback to a prototype they unveiled at the NEC. The new model will feature a set of hard panniers, mounting frame and adjustable flip-up screen, all adding a plus of $472 to the base MSRP of the standard Versys. ABS will be optional and colors available [...]
2009 Star Royal Star Tour Deluxe Review
Star Motorcycles carries on producing Yamaha’s consecrated cruiser lineup as a brand of its own and among their tops is the 2009 Royal Star Tour Deluxe model. This is one of those transformers that can suite a large category of riders on short and long trips and feels like destined for each one in particular. [...]
Crazy biker rides straight into a brick wall
This is actually part of a Spanish TV commercial. What this rider intends to demonstrate is that he can ride into a brick wall at top speed and walk away from it. He’s quite funny in his idiocy. Read more from the source
Review: 2009 Mazda Mazdaspeed3 Grand Touring
With the redesigned Mazda Mazdaspeed3 just around the corner, we realize the current ‘speed3 is a lame duck. That won’t stop us from ruffling a few feathers to see if this fiery five-door is still a good buy or a bird with two broken wings waiting for a doubled-barreled end to its misery.
Battle of the Exes: 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan SE AWD
Ex-wife and ex-husband “team” Brenda Priddy and John Priddy might not be a couple any longer, but they’ve agreed to evaluate a new car together in what Leftlane hopes will be come a popular semi-regular series of reviews called “Battle of the Exes: Car reviews from ex-spouses.”
