Audi Q7
 |
| Audi Q7 |
The Audi Q7 gets a midcycle freshening, with modest enhancements inside and out, for model-year 2010. The large crossover will officially debut next week at the 2009 Shanghai Auto Show.
Audi a7
 | |
| Audi a7Audi A7 is a one of the most luxurious and successful models from the German car manufacturing giant, Audi. The vehicle’s popularity and fame has been enhanced by its striking design, top class safety features and excellent build quality. The latest A7 Audi to hit the market will be the 2011 model which will be released with many high end features like blind-spot warning system, lane-departure, a home-quality infotainment system with digital hard-drive, “active” sports seats that knead various parts of the anatomy and |
Audi tt
 |
| Audi tt |
audi tt
The Audi TT is a two-door sports car made by a German automaker and Volkswagen Group auxiliary Audi given 1998.
Audi R8
 |
| Audi R8 |
Audi R8 2013 Luxurious and Sports Cars
 |
| Audi R8 2013 Luxurious and Sports Cars |
The Audi R8 is a supercar, but that doesn’t mean it’s uncompromising and hard-edged. It’s an incredibly capable performance machine, yet every bit as luxurious as it is sporting. The posh interior is loaded with
Kris Humphries
 |
| Kris Humphries |
Top 5 mobile phones under Rs 10,000 for October November
This edition of our 'Top five mobile phones under Rs 10,000' has two smartphones that were earlier priced around Rs 15,000.
Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 @ Rs 7,000
Samsung Galaxy Y S5360 @ Rs 7,000
Why curvy women will always score above size-zero ones?
2013 Ducati 848 First Ride
 |
| 2013 Ducati 848 First Ride |
There's no denying the all-new 2008 Ducati 848 is a looker, but there's more to a bike than looks. We kick the new Duc's tires around Spain's 2.6-mile Almeria circuit.
2012 Ducati 848 EVO Review
Then MY2008 saw a paradigm shift for the sub-liter Ducati superbikes, with the new 848 getting 15 extra horses and a weight loss of nearly 50 lbs! However, its 101cc displacement bump (to 849cc) made it ineligible for supersport competition, leaving it adrift in a class of its own.
|
2013 Ducati Streetfighter Review
The Streetfighter’s engine is ripped nearly unchanged from the 1098 sportbike, differing only in shorter intake tracts that knock off a scant 5 hp. The result is a claimed 155 hp at 9500 rpm, aided by a midrange-inducing exhaust valve. The use of the 1198’s Vacural cast-aluminum crankcase shaves nearly 7 pounds from the engine.
The new Streetfighter and the lovely Marta - eye candy |
Ducati Diavel 2013
Reach to the tapered-aluminum handlebar is naked-bike relaxed and combines with mid-mounted footpegs to provide a neutral, comfy riding position, though pegs are mounted about as high as a six-footer like me can tolerate.
Ducati offers optional lower and taller seats (plus or minus 20 mm from stock); I’d opt for the taller one for the additional legroom.
The machine’s broad gas tank cover (made of either steel or carbon fibre depending on the model) conceals a 17-litre fuel tank and bulges prominently beneath your arms.
This, and the aluminum side-mounted intake snouts and plastic radiator shrouds, which are placed outboard of the forks, make the machine look unnaturally wide and top-heavy — that is until you lift it off its side stand and realise that it’s much lighter than it looks.
Ducati claims 210 kg (463 lb) dry for the standard Diavel, while lighter Marchesini wheels and abundant use of carbon fibre cut another three kilos from the Carbon model.
The Diavel takes off in a new direction for Ducati.
The machine’s broad gas tank cover (made of either steel or carbon fibre depending on the model) conceals a 17-litre fuel tank and bulges prominently beneath your arms.
This, and the aluminum side-mounted intake snouts and plastic radiator shrouds, which are placed outboard of the forks, make the machine look unnaturally wide and top-heavy — that is until you lift it off its side stand and realise that it’s much lighter than it looks.
Ducati claims 210 kg (463 lb) dry for the standard Diavel, while lighter Marchesini wheels and abundant use of carbon fibre cut another three kilos from the Carbon model.
2012 Ducati Diavel Review
Rumors and spy shots of a fat-tired Ducati with strange styling surfaced in mid-2010. Some motorbike pundits dubbed the mystery bike Mega Monster. In the days just before the start of EICMA 2010, Ducati quit playing coy and unveiled the all-new Diavel.
The question then remained: Would this wildly styled, category-defying Ducati possess the supreme handling, potent stopping force and hallmark L-Twin power that for so many years have been the underpinning characteristics of Ducati’s sporting heritage?
In simpler, more colloquial terms, does the Diavel have what it takes? Can it represent, yo?
The short answer is yes – mostly.
The question then remained: Would this wildly styled, category-defying Ducati possess the supreme handling, potent stopping force and hallmark L-Twin power that for so many years have been the underpinning characteristics of Ducati’s sporting heritage?
In simpler, more colloquial terms, does the Diavel have what it takes? Can it represent, yo?
The short answer is yes – mostly.
 The 2011 Ducati Diavel. Will this new Ducati that’s unlike any other Ducati redefine power cruisers, or does its break with convention defy categorization? |
Ducati Diavel
 |
| Ducati Diavel |
Ducati Monster
 | |
| Ducati Monster |
Dedicated to those who want to make the ultimate expression, this jewel of style and performance is powered by the charismatic two-valve 1100cc Desmodromic twin-cylinder engine, famous the world over for its legendary torque and acceleration.
Old Motorcycle Information and Photographs
 |
| Old Motorcycle Information and Photographs |
This corner of the oldclassiccar website has been reserved for matters relating to classic and vintage motorcycles.
Vintage Motorcycles: BSA 'Birmingham Small Arms'
Birmingham Small Arms Company History
The Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., known popularly by its acronym BSA, started as a weapons manufacturer in 1861 (Birmingham Small Arms and Metal Co. Ltd.), but went on to become one of the largest motorcycle manufacturers in the world, known colloquially as a "Beeza."BSA's first flirtation with the bicycle industry began in 1881, with the invention of the "Dicycle" which had two large, identically-sized (side-by-side) wheels that were placed on either side of the rider. The Dicycle was also known as the "Otto dicycle," named after its creator E.C.F. Otto. Bicycle and dicycle manufacturing by BSA was short-lived, and by the late 1880s the company discontinued their bicycle production alltogether.
1921 BSA Model H
Motorcycle production at BSA began around 1906, at their factory on Armoury Road in Small Heath, Birmingham UK. Early BSA models used engines manufactured by outside suppliers. The first BSA motorcycle built entirely in-house came in 1910, using a 498cc 3 1/2 horsepower single. It was around this time that BSA began its signature forest-green livery with gold pinstriping.
1932 BSA W32-7 Blue Star
The company also produced automobiles beginning in 1907, and in 1910 BSA purchased the British Daimler Company to build its car engines. BSA Motorcycles Ltd. was established as a subsidiary in 1919. BSA began building v-twin engines for their motorcycles in 1921, starting with the 770cc BSA Model A.
1949 BSA Model 500
BSA Gold Star & A7
The BSA M24 'Gold Star' began production in 1938, based on the previous M23 Empire Star, and was one of BSA's longest lasting model lines, being built until 1963. The Gold Star had a hand-built 4-stroke 350 cc to 500 cc motor which became popular for their high performance. By the 1950s, the Gold Star had a reputation for being one of the fastest production bikes on the market.The 495cc model A7 began in 1946, designed by Val Page (1892-1978) who also designed engines for J.A. Prestwich (used in the Brough Superior SS100) and the Ariel Red Hunter. The BSA A7 was upgraded to 497cc in 1950, and continued in production until 1961.
1954 BSA Gold Star Special
The 'Gold Star' was named in honor of Walter Leslie (Wal) Handley (1902-1941) and his legendary 'ton-up' lap times at the Brooklands concrete bowl. At the time, the British Motor Cycle Racing Club would award a lapel pin with six-pointed 'gold star' to any rider who could negotiate a 100 mph lap.
BSA Star Twin, Golden Flash & Shooting Star
By 1949, BSA introduced the 'Star Twin' and the 650cc twin-cylinder A10 'Golden Flash' designed by Bert Hopwood, also from Ariel. The Star Twin was a response to the popularity of the Triumph Tiger 100. In 1954, the Star Twin was redesignated, and repackaged as the "Shooting Star," which ended production in 1961.By the early 1940s, British industrialist Sir Bernard D.F. Docker (1896-1978) became chairman of BSA. Docker was also chairman Daimler Motor Company during roughly the same period. Under Docker's leadership, BSA acquired Triumph Motorcycles in 1951, making them the largest producer of motorcycles in the world. He also acquired the motorcycle interests of British manufacturers' Ariel, New Hudson and Sunbeam.
1960 BSA Gold Star DBD34 Clubmans
Docker's tenure at BSA ended in 1956, when ex-Triumph chairman John (Jack) Young Sangster (1896-1977) took the helm. Sangster retired in 1961.
In 1959, BSA Introduced the 'BSA Sunbeam,' also sold as the Triumph Tigress, was 175 cc two-stroke single-cylinder scooter designed by Edward Turner (1901-1973), famous for his design of the Triumph Speed Twin, Thunderbird, and Ariel (now owned by Sangster) Square Four.
1968 BSA Shooting Star 441
By the end of the 1960s, as much as 60% of BSA and Triumph sales were to America and other counties, but the rising sun of Japan loomed over the British and American motorcycle industries like a dark cloud.
BSA Rocket 3
In response to the large-displacement inline fours that were soon to hit the all-important American market, BSA introduced the inline three-cylinder "A75 Rocket 3," which was produced from 1968 to 1972. The Rocket3 was also sold as the Triumph Trident T150, based on the early P1 and P2 prototypes that were design by Bert Hopwood and Doug Hele. Both engines were produced at BSA's factory in Small Heath.
1970 BSA Rocket 3 Roadracer
The A75 Rocket 3's OHV engine produced around 58 horsepower at 7,500 rpm, and had a 4-speed gearbox. The Rocket III and Trident were immediately proclaimed as the best road bikes in the world by the British press - a title which was quickly lost to the Honda CB750 which had far more technological advancements then their British "superbike" counterparts.
The Final Chapter for BSA
In 1973, the British government stepped in to rescue the merged BSA-Triumph group, and Norton-Villiers-Triumph (NVT) was created out of the three faltering companies: Villiers Engineering Ltd., Norton Motorcycles, and Triumph Engineering Ltd./BSA Group.Coventry-based Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC swapped its Norton Villiers motorcycle parts division with the non-motorcycle aspects of the BSA Group, including the Coventry-based coachbuilder, Carbodies, who was under contract with the Austin Motor Company.
BMW 2012
The man in his mid-fifties shakes his Schuberth flip-up helmeted head, befitting his station in disbelief. "Could you please move over for a second? I have to take a closer look on this bike -- is it really a BMW?“ Five minutes later his perfect motorcycle world has finally collapsed when I told him that I was actually sitting on a BMW GS just like him. He probably continued to shake his head for another hour when I spurred the silver-black bike again and the two-cylinder boxer engine plunged itself again into the thousand curves of the Black Forest, orchestrated by the greedy slurping of the two small open air filters and the deep grumbling of the shortened standard exhaust system.
Yes, this absolutely isn’t a one-man Starfighter that was launched from a starship -- it really did start life as a totally stolid BMW R 1100 GS.
Klaus Beutler is the man behind this project. Normally he is running a paint shop and among bikers in Germany and in the adjoining properties – since his hometown Görwihl is just a few minutes away from Switzerland and about an hour to drive from Austria – he is one of the best places to go for special paint jobs.
The 40-year old doesn’t really know or doesn’t want to remember how he happened to buy his conservative Enduro-Tourer motorcycle back in 1998. Before this decision Beutler’s garage was rather occupied by Japanese bikes from the legendary Kawasaki Z1 up to the current superbikes.
BMW Bikes Wallpapers 2012
 |
| BMW Bikes Wallpapers 2012 |
BMW Bikes Wallpapers
 |
| BMW Bikes Wallpapers 2012 |
BMW Bikes Wallpapers
 |
| BMW Bikes Wallpapers 2012 |
BMW Bikes Wallpapers
 |
| BMW Bikes Wallpapers 2012 |
Aprilia Rs 125
 |
| Aprilia Rs 125 |
Altius scimitar
2011 Altius Scimitar |
HDT is no spring chicken, the technology leaders for lightweight gas and heavy fuel/diesel-powered engines, they supply motorcycles to the US armed forces since 1982 when NATO began converting vehicles to operate on one standard fuel, Jet Propellant 8 or JP8.
Adventure Wheels 2012
 |
| Adventure Wheels 2012 |
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)