http://hellforleathermagazine.com/ Culture. Style. Design. en Copyright 2008 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:41:30 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification This bike, which combines vintage flat track style with modern supermoto performance, forms a key part of the strategy for the upcoming Goodspeed500 race series. Street legal and available for sale to the public, the race machine will essentially be Goodspeed’s product, with the urban parking garage-based series promoting its sale. Motivation comes in the form of a Yamaha 450cc single-cylinder engine, which is a fully stressed member of a custom tubular steel flat track frame from C&J. Goodspeed aims to bring the limited-edition bikes in at about $15,000.
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]]> http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/07/rossi-grows-a-beard.html http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/07/rossi-grows-a-beard.html Elisabeta Canalis motogp naked rossi topless valentino Valentino Rossi Yamaha Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:18:36 -0500 ]]> http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/07/happy-independence-day.html http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/07/happy-independence-day.html easy rider Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:35:52 -0500 Ducati North America sold 1,410 bikes during June, a 22 percent increase from June, 2007. In comparison, US car sales slumped 18.8 percent during the same month. Motorcycle and scooter sales are reaching a 20-year high in America despite the economic recession. Anecdotal evidence from dealership-owning friends suggests that many people who’ve always toyed with the idea of purchasing a bike are using high gas prices as the excuse to do so. This indicates that it’s a change in public perception, not economic motivation driving sales, hence the record numbers for a high-priced luxury brand like Ducati.

Ducati
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The 2008 Honda CBR1000RR is lighter and more powerful than ever before, but is it better? To find out, we take it to Palomar Mountain, home to roads so winding that power alone can’t conquer them.

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Yamaha has filed patents for an enduro bike fitted with a Continuously Variable Transmission. A CVT could be the ideal transmission for a small capacity dirt bike, enabling it to permanently remain within its limited powerband and eliminating the need for near constant gear changes. By employing two pulleys that constantly adjust through an infinite number of gear ratios in order to keep the revs at an optimal level, a CVT can make the most of the performance offered by an engine. Because they employ belts operating on cones, the transmission’s applications have so far been limited to relatively low-power applications that won’t cause the belt to slip or break, neither of which should be a problem on a single-cylinder dirt bike. There’s currently no information on which model Yamaha is interested in using a CVT on, but if we had to hazard a guess, it’d be a small capacity, high-mileage Honda CRF230L rival since the transmission would increase mileage, learner-friendliness and performance.

Yamaha via Gizmag
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]]> http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/sidebike-celtik-and-zeus-to-be.html http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/sidebike-celtik-and-zeus-to-be.html Side-Bike Side-Bike Celtik Side-Bike Zeus sidecar TGV trike Trikes Grande Vitesse Trikes Grande Vitesse Celtik Trikes Grande Vitesse Zeus Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:49:40 -0500 Enterprising businessmen in Hungary have launched a new motorcycle brand with a classic name — Danuvia. A major player in their domestic market in the 1950s, Danuvia died off with its parent company Csepel, late in the decade. The new company riffs the firm’s historic off-road racing success with a road-legal flat tracker called the SupeRetro and a supermoto called Nova. Both use a 510cc Sherco single, high-specification components like Öhlins suspension and Brembo radials and weigh in at about 110kg.
]]> http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/danuvia-motorcycles-reborn-in.html http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/danuvia-motorcycles-reborn-in.html Danuva Superetro Danuvia Danuvia Motorcycle Danuvia Nova flat track hungary nova Superetro supermoto Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:57:42 -0500 Aprilia has announced it will begin selling the Mana 850 and RS 125 in America. The bikes will premiere at the Laguna Seca US Grand Prix in July. This is big news as both bikes represent radical technical departures from other machines sold in this country.
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]]> http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/goodspeed500-to-hold-american.html http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/06/goodspeed500-to-hold-american.html car park racing flat track garage racing Goodspeed 500 Goodspeed500 parking lot racing race racing series supermoto Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:00:11 -0500 Help us out by taking our demographic survey. It’s just a few short questions and we won’t store or sell any of your data. In return, one survey participant will be chosen at random to win this print. Created by Grant Ray for Expedition: Death Valley, it is printed on 13”x19" archive fine art photo paper. Number one of one, it’ll probably be worth money some day if Grant and I become rich and famous, which by taking this survey you’ll be helping out with, so it’s a win/win situation for everyone involved.

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