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News from the Eicma show

clayman — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:05:26 +0000

We have been to Milan Italy and the Eicma show, read more here.

New F4 picture

clayman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:10:41 +0000

In one week we will see the new MV Agusta F4 at Eicma, but here is one more picture of the bike.

CR&S DUU

clayman — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:56:57 +0000

Italian “tailor-made motorcycle” manufacturer CR&S will show their new bike, the DUU at this years EICMA show.
DUU is Milanese dialect is for Two, two liter, twin cyclinder, twin seater..
Its powered by the American brand S&S new X-Wedge engine with a capacity of 1920cc (117c.i.) and 150Nm of torque.
The bike has a modular layout with technical and aesthetic options, without affecting functionality or the aesthetic form.
See the DUU at EICMA in Hall. 2 Booth I-30, I sure will be there.

More MV, new F4

clayman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:59:06 +0000

On Nov8, MV Agusta will show the new F4, here is a teaser pic.

More here..

MV up for sale

clayman — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:06:04 +0000

Following Harleys “go-forward business strategy” that ended the Buell saga the other day, has now put MV Agusta is up for sale. H-D´s objective when acquiring MV Agusta last year was to expand their presence in Europe.
Harley new CEO Keith Wandell said “The fact is we must focus both our effort and our investment on the Harley-Davidson brand, as we believe this provides an optimal path to sustained, meaningful, long-term growth.”
Harley has reported a 84% third-quarter profit dropp.

More here..

Buell out of Business

clayman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:57:00 +0000

After 26 years and over 135000 sold motorcycles, Buell motorcycles is out of business.
Keith Wandell, CEO of Buell owners H-D said this in a press release:
“The fact is we must focus both our effort and our investment on the Harley-Davidson brand, as we believe this provides an optimal path to sustained, meaningful long-term growth,”

Buell founder EriK Buell posted this video today,

Sad to hear this,
Harley press release here..
/Clayman

New British Motorcycle Brand Announced

clayman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:14:53 +0000

Xenophya Design are pleased to unveil the first images of a planned range of motorcycles from new British brand ‘Mac Motorcycles’.

Xenophya have worked over the past nine months with Mac Motorcycles’ Director Ellis Pitt to design a range of four lightweight, air-cooled singles using the 500cc Buell ‘Blast’ motor in an oil-filled tubular backbone frame.

Ellis showed up at Xenophya Towers with an armful of photos, a packet of Rich Tea biscuits and an idea: to produce a motorcycle that reflected a philosophy. Influences have been diverse and we’ve made unusual connections between genres of motorcycles such as choppers, Italian singles from the 1950s, flat-trackers, café racers and competition specials. What underpins Mac Motorcycles’ philosophy though is the belief that the riding experience and the stories that go with motorcycle journeys seem to have been hijacked by technology and plastic.”

The concept compliments a long standing belief here at Xenophya, that the market is lacking inspirational low to mid-capacity bikes, resulting in lower numbers of young riders and an ageing biker population.

As a start-up business budgets weren’t available for extensive consumer research. More ‘guerilla’ techniques have therefore been employed in the creation and promotion of the brand and associated media to gauge public reaction, which in these early stages is proving very positive.

Based in the small English town of Upton-Upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Mac Motorcycles plan to market this unique new range of motorcycles throughout the world. Bikes will be made in small batches for markets in the UK, North America and Japan, with customers in France and Australia in-mind too. Depending on specification and tuning options, the Mac range is expected to retail between £8k – £10k.

For more information visit www.mac-motorcycles.com

BMW S1000RR design video

clayman — Tue, 12 May 2009 09:40:39 +0000

Have a look at this video of the design and development work for BMW’s new superbike
S1000RR

Yamaha puts the SP in MT01

crazycustoms — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 07:56:21 +0000

It’s been four year since Yamaha introduced MT01 – A powerfull machine full of cintridictions, but the guys over at yamaha who decided to put a 1670cc v-twinn in a sportyframe atleast did something right, even if that only was with the power, with massive torque and a heavy weight the drivingexperience is what you could call brutal, as lon as you stay on a straight road that is, when it comes to cornering the 265 kilos wants your attention,

But yamaha has come up with a cure in the form of the letters SP, question is , will the öhlinsforks or the pirellitires or maybe even the red and white tank make it a killer on trackdays ? well that is something that the future holdsfor us. but for now we can settle with the paintjobb that looks nice , and the fact the if you want a starting point for your build, the new MT01 SP is a really interesting choice

Motoczysz to go into TTXGP?

clayman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:32:15 +0000

It has been a while since we heard anything from Motoczysz, but the other day this statement was posted in their blog.

Im sure MC will think this over long and hard, and the question is, as I see it..
WSBK or TTXGP
TTXGP will be give needed attention in the short run, and electrical powered motorcycles will be the thing in 10 years.
Maybe that is the time span the company needs to work with in mind.
Will that path give investment? I think yes.
Will it in the long run generate money through sales?
Sales of high tech solutions yes, but I think manufacturing and large number sales of bikes will be on someone else table.
But is Motoczysz a company that aim to sell thousands of bikes? I guess not.
The TTXGP path seems good.

WSBK will keep on racing with gasoline powered bikes for many years.
But is that the arena we first will see electrical/hybrid bikes first? or GP?
It should be GP, but now in a few years, but the TTXGP is on this year.

So what does each of these paths give?
The way I see it it comes down to this, what is the long term plans for the company?
If it is hi-tech development and sales of technology, then the ttxgp path is suitable.
Involve racing aspirations, under the Motozcysz banner, both paths are open.
The C1 clearly have innovations that would make it a success in WSBK and streetbikes.
The amount of money to run a team at world level is not that great, I know from very good insight in to one of the newer teams in the series.
But on the other hand to get the money to build the 3000 bikes needed to meet the 2010 homologation rules will not be easy to find.
To survive at all maybe the only choice is to go TTXGP.

One thing is for sure, I wish MC and the crew all the of best luck, keep up the good work.

Clayman / Petter R