By Jeff Cobb, Motorcycle Safety News The 2011 Bell Vortex offers a number of trickle-down technologies from Bell’s top-of-the-line Star, for around one-third the price. Introduced in 2010, the Vortex carries over with new color choices, an improved strap-keeper magnet, as well as slightly thinner cheek pads on sizes XL and XXL. Other than this, [...]
Zero Motorcycles started back in 2006 with Neil Saiki and his wife, Lisa, building the first electric-powered motorcycles in their garage in Scotts Valley, California. From that typically entrepreneurial beginning – when the company was actually named Electricross – Saiki guided the company to where it is now; over 60 employees, large-scale production facilities and [...]
The MV Agusta F4 has been called the most beautiful motorcycle in the world, but even this beauty has its flaws. MV Agusta has recalled 211 2010 MV Agusta F4s due to a problem with the rear subframe. MV Agusta released the following statement: “MV Agusta is recalling certain model year 2010 F4 motorcycles for [...]
The Suzuki Endurance Racing Team has won the opening round of the 2011 Qtel World Endurance Championship, the 24-hour 75th-Anniversary Bol d’Or at Magny Cours in France. The GSX-R1000-mounted reigning World Champions crossed the line at the 3pm finish with 814 laps completed; six laps clear of race-long rivals SRS Kawasaki (808 laps), BWM Motorrad [...]
Life In America 1989 – Average household income is $27,450. George H.W. Bush is president. Serial killer Ted Bundy is executed in Florida. The Exxon Valdez runs aground in Alaska’s Prince William sound spilling 11-million gallons of oil. Every Rose Has Its Thorn, by Poison and Look Away, by Chicago are just a couple of [...]
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