On May 1, for the 16th time in 16th years, Kyle Petty will climb on his motorcycle and begin a cross-country journey that, ultimately, will benefit children throughout the United States.
Though Petty’s Charity Rides are once-a-year affairs, his commitment and generosity are relentless — and all the more poignant in that the death of his son, Adam, inspired the creation of Victory Junction Gang Camp, which the charity ride has supported since its opening in 2004Â …Â Details
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After launching its first street-legal bike last summer – the Electric Supermoto, or Zero S – California-based Zero Motorcycles has introduced the 2010 Zero DS, a road-worthy dual-sport sibling and latest stablemate to a growing line of on- and off-road machines.
The S continues as a 2010 model with minor updates, and the two bikes are nearly identical except the DS comes with a few changes to suit it for light trail duty. Both of these electric motorcycles perform similarly to a “150cc to 250cc†4-stroke gasoline-powered bike, according to CEO Gene Banman  … Details
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The performance of modern literbikes may be intoxicatingly fabulous, but we were becoming a little bored in recent shootouts by having to resort to splitting hairs among the Big Four’s similarly spec’d 1000cc sportbikes. Yamaha gave us a taste of something different last year with the crossplane-crankshaft version of the R1, but it has a small power number and a large weight number, so it wasn’t the game-changer we hoped would shake up the literbike pecking order. We began to feel a yawn coming on.
And that’s why we’re glad 2010 has rolled around, as it sees the introduction of two totally new four-cylinder superbike contenders … Details
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