Ridin', wrenchin' and shootin'
Electric motorcycle manufacturer, Brammo Inc., wants to know how much abuse their forward-looking electric machines can take. So what are they doing to find out? Looking for police departments to beat the living snot out of them. In the past, the standard choice of a motorcycle for American police departments...
With gasoline reaching a nearly economy-gagging $4 a gallon in most areas of the United States, one segment of the country is feeling the potential for consumer love – electric motorcycle manufacturers. Rarely seen on the nation’s asphalt, at least to this point in time, electric bikes have been available...
For me, motorcycles have always been about internal combustion. The aroma of gas and oil. The percussive report of an engine at full throttle. It’s the sound and vibration as much as the propulsion that makes a ride what it is – a visceral experience. Will that gut-moving experience be...
What makes a motorcycle a Motorcycle? Is it grease? Chains? Chrome? Well, if not those, then it must be gasoline and noise. But then again, how about one with no gearbox, no exhaust system and no gas tank? Design student Edwin Yi Yuan is one of the men behind what...
While this little piece of cool isn’t exactly DOT approve, it is might cool. Wearing it would not only mark you as traffic ticket fodder, but indicate that you are a nerd of the highest order as well. This Iron Man motorcycle helmet features a retractable tinted shield, but comes...
Clearly, the future of the motorcycle, as is the case with it’s lesser cousin, the automobile, does not lie the way of fossil fuel power. It’s time to face facts, only the hardcore outsiders will be left to ride inefficient, gasoline-powered motorcycles before the close of the decade. It’s written...