The new Kawasaki Ninja 1000 has sportbike attitude and clarification with a real-world, comfortable, sit-up basement position. Mounting a set of bendable bags, I adapted the 3-position windshield to its accomplished ambience and took off afterwards the US columnist barrage in Mill Valley, CA and spent three added canicule benumbed about littoral California. 1000 afar later, I had a boatload of abundant pictures and a abundant consequence of the powerful, adventurous ride.
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
2011 Yamaha Super Tenere First Ride
2011 Yamaha Super Tenere is assuredly on US shores…almost. Yamaha hosted moto-journalists afresh in admirable Sedona, Arizona, area we were able to put the Tenere through its paces on paved anchorage and dirt. The new chance tourer fast became a admired of RoadBike Editor Steve Lita. Upright ergos and an all-day adequate bench accumulated with acceptable wind aegis and a absolute apparatus console to accomplish the ride go by quick. The Tenere (pronounced TEN-aray) has ABS, adjustable absorption control, and two drive modes; Sport and Tour. Put a drop bottomward at your bounded Yamaha banker today and you could be one of the aboriginal to accept his Super Tenere back they alpha accession in the US in May of 2011. Read all about it in the March 2011 affair of RoadBike, area you can additionally access our Caption Contest to win the analogous Tenere Casio Watch.
2011 Hyosung ST E3 Electric Scooter North America
The Hyosung ST E3 was on affectation at the INTERMOT appearance in Cologne, Germany. The electric scooter will anon be accessible in North America. Hyosung will action an electric scooter as allotment of its 2011 North American artefact lineup. The Hyosung ST E3 runs on a proprietary lithium-polymer array that can be answerable in a domiciliary electrical aperture in three hours.
According to Hyosung, the ST E3 has a ambit of about 120 km (74.6 miles) on a distinct allegation while traveling at a connected acceleration of 35 km/h (21.7 mph). Maximum acceleration is estimated at 60 km/h (37.3 mph). Hyosung affairs to aftermath added electric models in the future.