There usually isn’t a good reason for us to feature car videos, but any time Travis Pastrana is involved, if even for a minute, the video is usually worth watching.
Such is the case with DC Shoes-sponsored Ken Block’s Gymkhana Five: Ultimate Urban Playground, San Francisco.
The 106cc Yamaha Crux, seen here, made for the Indian market is currently Yamaha’s least expensive motorcycle at approximately $650. Yamaha has announced plans to produce a $500 motorcycle for the Indian market.
The dirt-cheap motorcycle price war is on the boil. India Yamaha Motor recently announced it intends to supply a motorcycle for the Indian market with a retail cost in the neighborhood of $500. This would make Yamaha’s new bike the least expensive motorcycle from Japanese manufacturers competing in that market.
Do you have a dream destination of where you’d like to scoot around on a Vespa?
Enter the “Where Would You Vespa?” photo contest to tell the Italian scooter company about your ideal scootering locale. The shutterbug that receives the most votes by the end of the contest will win the grand prize, a Vespa LX 50 scooter.
Called the Endless Summer Giveaway, Bell Powersports is running a contest on its Facebook page to give away one helmet a day for 28 days in June.
The contest began on June 1 and will run through June 28. Bell will select seven winners every Thursday from the previous week’s entrants to receive a new bell helmet.
American start-up, Motus Motorcycles, maker of the highly anticipated MST and MST-R sport-touring motorcycles powered by a unique V4 engine configuration announced yesterday that it has expanded its dealer network by adding four new dealers in the Western U.S. region.
The new authorized Motus dealers are in California, Washington, and two in Nevada.
The estate of legendary motorcycle racer and all around fun guy, Gary Nixon, will go on auction June 16,2012, in York, PA.
Nixon passed in August, 2011, while recovering from heart surgery. A two-time AMA Grand National Champion (1967 – ’68), Nixon was an accomplished flattrack and road racer. He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998.
Of the many items listed in the auction are a number of Nixon’s motorcycles, including a Triumph Cub, a 1968 Triumph 250, another racing Triumph Cub, and his personal 2009 Kawasaki Ninja 250.
Guzzis aren’t for everyone, and Guzzisti are quite okay with that fact. While Moto Guzzi recognizes the dedication of Guzzi devotees, it also recognizes that it needs to grow the brand.
Moto Guzzi USA, the North American importer of the Moto Guzzi brand, has announced a new “micro” site for Guzzis. The site, www.motoguzzioriginals.com, is part eye candy (actually, it’s very eye candy), part history, part marketing tool.
Genki Hagata is one lucky roadracer.
With a freshly minted AMA Pro Road Racing license, Hagata was working toward debuting as a pro during the third round of the 2012 AMA Pro Road Racing series, held May 4 – 6 at Infineon Raceway in Sonomoa, Calif.
However, as Hagata explains on his race team blog, a series of misfortunes lead to what could have been a genuine disaster. And of course he had his GoPro recording the entire time.
According to Hagata’s blog entry it was the lack of opportunity to properly setup his race bike with new, and unfamiliar tires that caused him to experience the dreaded high side crash. Well, almost crash.
As you’ll see in this short vid that’s sure to reach the heights of Awesome Internet Video, Hagata pulled off a minor miracle.
Enjoy.
Honda, the largest (by volume) motorcycle manufacturer in the world has launched one of its least expensive motorcycles.
Made specifically for the booming two-wheeler market in India, the 109cc Dream Yuga is set to retail for 44,642 Indian rupees. That price wouldn’t translate directly here in the U.S., but a simple currency conversion at today’s monetary values equates the rupee cost to $830.
Although custom cruiser builder Big Bear Choppers ceased crafting its high-end choppers in November 2011, the company voluntarily filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Friday, May 4, in California Central Bankruptcy Court (Riverside, Calif.).
Big Bear Choppers (Big Bear American Made Choppers, Inc.) is represented by David Philipson of Law Offices of David Philipson, PO Box 2950, Big Bear Lake, CA 92315,
909-878-0055.
As V-Twin blogger Cyril Huze noted, BBC listed a ream of creditors and lenders in its bankruptcy filing. The list, 325 names long, even includes BBC customers that received partially completed motorcycles, or no bike at all. Among the long list of creditors and lenders are Kevin and Mona Alsop, former owners of Big Bear American Made Choppers, Inc.
