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Sunday, February 27, 2011

THE DUCATI 750SS


Rather like fellow Italian motorcycle manufacture Moto Guzzi, Ducati was an exotic, yet unpredictable, marquee in the 1970s. The Ducati 750SS was the first foray into big bore machinery for the company. Opinions vary, some thinking it was a collection parts from the famous Dell'Orto catalogue with glass fibre bits and pieces, (including the fuel tank), others feeling that it was simply an evolution from Ducati's GT.

Really, it wasn't important. Despite the drawing board opinions, when ridden, the SS proved to be a very special sports bike and helped pave the way for the release, and success, of the 900SS some two years later. Both the Honda CB750 and Suzuki GT750 were the two bikes that were in many ways the benchmarks in terms of performance and handling at the time of the release of the SS, and with a top speed of 124mph, the SS could compete on level terms.

However, where it excelled was in the "twisties". Even up against more powerful bikes, when it came to cornering and real life speed, in other words not just straight line performance, the SS would leave them in its wake. It built up a deserved reputation as the best cafe style racer of the day, and the best handling superbike to date.

Typical of Ducati, and a style that remains to this day, were the rear mounted footrests and clip-on handlebars. This put it firmly in the sports bracket, pushing the boundaries of sports bikes at that time, and looked different to anything else on the road at that time. It looked stunning with its race seat and optional handlebar fairing. Riding this machine took guts and an ability to cope with the radical riding position, placing as it did a lot of pressure on the wrists and neck muscles.

Production stopped in 1974. It was sometimes regarded as a piece of exotica and sales were not huge. But this 748cc, V-twin broke a mould in many ways, before Ducati moved on, as the rest of the motorcycle industry, to more cubes and more horsepower.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

NEW HERO HONDA PRO


Hero Honda recently split from its technology partner company Honda but that has not stopped them from continuing upgrading their vehicles. In Pune, the new 2011 Karizma has been spotted and believe you me, you won't be able to make out in the first glance. The bike looks like most other Hero Honda upgrades, almost similar to the older version.

Yes there are new features on the horizon such as new stickers, graphics and change of colours all around. The speedometer is now yellow and carriers the Karizma tag on it. Also the engine cowl is new and many features like clear lens indicators, colours are borrowed from its elder sibling the ZMR. There is no upgrade in the engine nor is there any revolutionary feature. Yes it does have new handlebars but clipons are still not there.

What you can expect is another of those HH upgrades with a slight price hike adding absolutely no real difference compared to the outgoing model. What Hero Honda should have really done was to upgrade the ZMA with ZMR clipon handle bars, given it a digital speedometer (even the Hunk has it now) and most importantly given the Karizma wider tyres. All these modifications would have really added value to the bike and then people would not have been like "Hey, the Karizma is still the one which was launched in May, 2003 with some new stickers." Anyways the new Karizma if launched at the same price will be a good upgrade to an already excellent product from the Hero Group.

Yamaha ATV



in the old days we had to wait for a price catalog to show up in the mail. Today we got the web. With that comes a lot of competitive web sites all offering the absolute lowest price. The low price guarantees on the web are outrageous. Many of these motorsports sites are claiming basically the same thing. They are offering you the "lowest price" and that phrase is used rather loosely depending on what site you are on. This is something to take note of.

Now, the other thing you need to know is that this phrase, "the lowest price" is used with a wide range of percentages ranging from 15% to 50% and sometimes even higher. Keep in mind that you are dealing with a 30% price swing here. Maybe these guys just didn't get their story straight. We decided to do a little investigating and we found out some pretty interesting things about the discount ATV parts sites that you will want to take note of. But before we go into that we went to the online deal makers on the Internet - that's right, eBay!

If you are on eBay and shopping around for the lowest price you are in for a big wake up call. It's a lot like looking at a dollar store filled with guys who bought way too much of the same thing. What are you going to do with thirty different 350 OEM Grizzly deluxe hour meters? Sure they are priced cheap but there are a lot of them on this site. The particular dealer we found has a no hassle return policy which is nice but I am looking for more selection. There were some other parts too that were in bags but I couldn't tell what models or years these parts belong to. I can imagine them sitting in my basement until I decide to have another yard sale so I passed on these.

Going to the web sites was in itself an interesting experience. There were a lot of claims on the sponsored linked sites that claimed that they were offering the lowest price when it came to Yamaha ATV parts and at first this sounded great. It makes you wonder why all of these sites are basically claiming to be the exact same thing, "The lowest price in the USA". They all claimed to be number one but again I am looking for authenticity and the truth behind these wide open statements of lowest price. It turns out that many of these sites make their money back off the customer on shipping charges. So they can in fact charge you 50% less than their competition but in fact they are really making their money back regardless. So you, dear friend, are the one who is actually paying for all of these low prices. Just take it easy when you shop online.