The motorcycle powers that be have amended the rules for MotoGP’s upcoming 2009 racing season, resulting in shorter practice sessions and engine limitations…. More info
BenZhou Group, one of the leading Scooter manufacturers of China, recently introduced 10 new models of High Speed Electric and Hybrid Scooters for export to over 100 countries.
BenZhou Motorcycle Group, based in Taizhou, China, is one of the leading manufacturers of high quality scooters since over 12 years. Recently BenZhou ventured into the field of Electric Scooters and quickly became one of the leading exporters of Electric Scooters to over 40 countries with over 50 different models of scooters shipping over 2,00,000 units a year.
Now, with the ever increasing demand of high speed electric scooters and alternative energy, BenZhou group has introduced a new range of High Speed Electric & Hybrid scooters. Although electric scooters are very new for a lot of countries, there has been a huge increase in sales since last year, as people look to move away from gasoline vehicles to electric & hybrid ones. Until now the biggest problem with the electric scooters was the low speeds and long charging times…Â More info
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Unfortunately, it was the Christmas holiday, so I couldn’t find a single truckish thing to do with the all-new 2009 Suzuki Equator. I always try to, when testing pickup trucks.
Even though many trucks spend their lives roaming the suburbs with nary a load of dirt to haul in sight, the true measure of a pickup’s “truckness” is to let it do some work. That’s definitely the case with the new Equator.
Designed and marketed toward Suzuki’s adventuresome motorcycle and personal watercraft-riding customers as a perfect gear-hauler and all-around tough truck…Â More info
Members of the motorsports industry are wondering why the government has adopted a rule virtually eliminating a key constituency – and possibly thousands of jobs – while at the same time developing a nearly trillion-dollar stimulus that supporters say is intended to create and protect employment.
At issue is a new federal regulation of lead that took effect just this month. The policy has virtually shut down the part of the motorsports industry that serves children under 12 who want to ride all-terrain vehicles and motorbikes, because some components of the machines – such as tire valve stems – contain lead.
“You’ve got a lot of kids involved in this,” Don Amador, western representative for the the Blue Ribbon Commission, told WND today. “But ATVs, dirt bikes have batteries  in them, components that use lead inside the valve stems on tires, lead in the electronic wiring, lead on battery terminals.” … More info
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