Friday, 26 March 2010

The BMW Concept 6
Another Brutally mean machine

The new concept from BMW is astonishing, not only for its outside "look-at-me" vision, but also with the heart which happens to be a straight 6 cylinder 1.6litre engine. It's just obvious that the germans are going mad all the time and if this remains only a concept we'll be very sad.
A function called E-Gas (ride by wire), gives several selectable ride modes for fuel economy and power, which is said to be similar to what you would get from a 1300, perhaps 170 hp, but torque is 96 foot pounds at 2000 rpm plus it has a redline of 9000 rpm. BMW says initial intentions for the engine are in a touring platform of some sort, but its capabilities mean it can easily be used in a wide variety of bikes.


Wednesday, 24 March 2010

The all-in-one bike
Ducati Multistrada 1200

With the Multistrada 1200 Ducati is claiming to have taken the original Multistrada concept of sporting performance, comfort and versatility a more than a few steps further. The goal of the Multistrada 1200 is truly to be “Multi”, with a bike capable of navigating any kind of journey and road surface, while leveraging Ducati technology derived from the Bologna-made race bikes in MotoGP and World Superbike.

That’s a pretty heady mandate and to pull it off Ducati is hoping that the Multistrada 1200 is “A bike without limits, which could transform itself to suit the rider’s needs and not the other way around. A motorcycle that is four bikes in one.”

The Multistrada 1200’s goal is to be able to hang with the supersport set, tour in continent crossing style two-up with luggage, hammer out or hooligan through day to day in the city, and hit the gravel “with the agility of an enduro.” If Ducati pulls this off then, versatility, thy name is Multistrada 1200… not that the outgoing 1100S was a slouch at most of these acts.

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Motorcycle legends
Travis Pastrana #199 a.k.a the crazy flying man

Slight introduction

What you get is what you see in the title, a man who is genuinely great guy, funny and passionate who is also freakingly talented on two and in the last years four wheels.

Pastrana's acomplishments are really legendary: he became world freestyle MX (motocross) champion at age 14, five -time US amateur MX champion, two-time Canadian amateur mx champion. The youngest rider ever who represented the United States at the Motocross des Nations in France, 125cc pro national outdoor champion, 125cc East Supercross Series champion, and most succesful competitor in the history of  X-Games freestyle MX.

The last couple of years he had been pretty amazing on four wheels, too, as he demonstrated in the Rally America Series. But despite the success stories the superstar has maintained a reputation of a total no-brainer who is just being himself - never ending stunts and tricks, shows, killer records, and a lot of stupidity into the whole thing.

Cutting edge of technology
Kawasaki ZX-10R 2010

Overview


The Ninja ZX-10R truly proves itself on the racetrack, thanks to technology developed on Kawasaki race bikes. Although designed to offer maximum performance on the circuit, the same power and handling that provide such amazing on-track performance, also make it more fun for riding on the street.
The look-alike ZX-6R debuted in 2009, featured what was possibly the best sporting transmission Kawasaki has ever produced. Now the 2010 ZX-10R is being constructed on the same base technology gearbox, with some internal modifications aimed at reducing play in the shift mechanism and providing a more-precise feel at the lever. The result is smooth, effortless shifting with clean and positive gear engagement.

The new unbreakable Suzuki
off-road beast RM-Z450

Engine Features


The 18-pin magneto intelligent rotor senses feedback on crankshaft position, rotation speed and stroke which is cleverly fed back to the ECU to calculate optimum injection and ignition timings and you know that means POWER. It is equipped with a 5-Speed Transmission which makes RM-Z450 versatile for various terrain conditions and features a link type shifting mechanism. One incredible feature is that the cross machine is supplied with so intelligent magneto which provides enough electricity for everything even for the fuel injection system and therefore is "Battery-less". Suzuki call that "single-phase all-charging system". The combustion chamber is specially designed for strong low-to-mid range response as well as top-end pull.  Electronic Fuel Injection (EFI) offers better roll on power and strong low-to-mid range power. KEIHIN throttle body specifically designed for motocross. Fuel is delivered via an internal fuel pump which yet again is a battery-less system thanks to the clever japanese engineers.

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