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BMW working on road surface sensing traction control for motorcycles
... of manufacturers for 2020, could 2021 be the year that road surface-sensitive traction control becomes a thing ? BMW seems to ... The camera feeds the information back to a control module that uses computer programs to build up a 3D image of the road ahead. BMW ...
Simon Hancocks - 29/09/2020 - 09:29 - 46 comments
Bandit 9 announce the L-Concept based on a Honda Supersports 125
... mankind to its limits. We did it because we can. And I love that. There’s no reason, except to be better.” For more information on ... 0 Definitely imagine that that Permalink Submitted by casseverhart13 on ...
Simon Hancocks - 12/12/2019 - 12:41 - 1 comment
Top of the Flops | 10 Motorcycles that just you just didn't want
... disastrous attempt at a cruiser, the 1997 R1200C. That motorcycle in turn got us thinking of other infamous motorcycle ... GTS1000, the radical, hub-centre-steered sports-tourer that was supposedly the future of motorcycling yet actually proved a sales disaster… so much so that it was quietly withdrawn soon after. But, of course, it wasn’t the ...
Ollie Barstow - 08/06/2022 - 11:17 - 0 comments
‘Really bad news’ is ‘difficult to take’ – Valentino Rossi
Valentino Rossi has reacted to the news that the opening two rounds of the 2020 MotoGP World Championship have been ... Thanks for posting this info. I just want to let you know that I just check out your site and I find it very interesting and informative. ...
Ollie Barstow - 02/03/2020 - 16:45 - 74 comments
Think Bike poster was edited ‘to get message across’
... is being withheld. The poster shows a motorcycle that many viewers find difficult to make out from a tangle of tree branches ... for compulsory high-visibility clothing and even suggestions that drivers may not be to blame for failing to spot us. Now it’s ...
Visordown News - 10/05/2024 - 03:58 - 10 comments
Top 10 Suzuki concepts that didn’t make it
... ‘concepts’ at all but just an early look at something that’s already been earmarked for production. Others are more worthy of the ... ground; even the new V-Strom 1000 is based around an engine that dates back well into the last millennium. However, a look back at the ...
Visordown News - 23/09/2019 - 00:52 - 0 comments
Ten things that put the Honda NR750 way ahead of its time
... rather than fuel injection. Carbon fibre was still something that only racers tended to see and the idea of an aluminium frame was still new ... And while the NR750 wasn’t quite the first to depart from that norm – the existing VFR750 was already edging in its direction – ...
Visordown - 10/05/2024 - 03:49 - 0 comments
Yamaha looking to create a motorcycle that will not fall over
... to change the motorcycle landscape, it is really no surprise that manufacturers are looking at new and innovative ways to tempt commuters ... modes of transport and onto two wheels. One factory that is seeming to take the theme of innovative, alternative transport more ...
Simon Hancocks - 01/09/2020 - 10:35 - 0 comments
Jimarillo columns from TWO magazine
... enough tale, but after squinting out of the small window that decorates the modest apartment I occupy, (an apartment perched ... It wasn't until I saw this old fella waddling past below that I realised this was the real deal. As his lobster-hued builder's arse ...
Ben Cope - 09/09/2019 - 03:05 - 0 comments
Top 11 Laws that should be changed for motorcyclists
... It’s one of those things we take for granted because that’s the way it is. But why do bikes have to be subject to the same traffic ... along the A65 and scoot past. There are plenty of corners that don’t have solid white lines but which we wouldn’t overtake on because ...
Simon Hargreaves - 10/05/2024 - 03:58 - 0 comments

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