Daily news about motorcycleshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/en-usTue, 21 May 2013 18:00:00 +0200 Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:00 +0200

#Bajaj #LML #India - Italian scooter manufacturer LML and Indian manufacturer Bajaj have been at odds for the last seven years, and slugging it out in court. The reason? Bajaj have been granted a patent for an intake system for two stroke engines which improves fuel efficiency and reduce emissions, two much sought-after technologies in today's world.

LML have been claiming that the patent granted to Bajaj was not new, just a minor improvement over existing technology. The Indian courts disagreed, but it took 7 years of, probably very boring, testimonies to come to that conclusion.

Bajaj is over the moon, and LML will challenge the ruling. I think the only real winners were the lawyers.

]]>http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/india-bajaj-wins-patent-court-case-against-lml---7-year-struggle.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/india-bajaj-wins-patent-court-case-against-lml---7-year-struggle.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/india-bajaj-wins-patent-court-case-against-lml---7-year-struggle.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdxcomments/india-bajaj-wins-patent-court-case-against-lml---7-year-struggle.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/india-bajaj-wins-patent-court-case-against-lml---7-year-struggle.htm?opendocument&comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0200

I don't know about you, but there's no way in hell I'll be riding a Piaggio MP3 scooter, or even a super fast motorcycle alongside any lions. So I'm a bit amazed at this advertisement from Piaggio. With a copy line that says "So stable, you'll think it's a car", just because the scooter is more stable than traditional 2 wheelers, doesn't mean that it's safer?

]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/ad-piaggio-mp3-and-lions.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/ad-piaggio-mp3-and-lions.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/ad-piaggio-mp3-and-lions.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/ad-piaggio-mp3-and-lions.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/ad-piaggio-mp3-and-lions.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:00:00 +0200

Last year we've seen a motorcycle that runs on a toilet's "product" on the internet. We've also seen toilets that have motorcycle logos. But how about motorcycles, or in this case scooters, that ARE toilets.

Imagine someone loves their Vespa so much, they're willing to take a crap on them..............

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]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/using-your-scooter-as-toilet.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/using-your-scooter-as-toilet.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/using-your-scooter-as-toilet.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/using-your-scooter-as-toilet.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/using-your-scooter-as-toilet.htm?opendocument&comments Fri, 9 Nov 2012 14:00:00 +0200

Want to fly? Get a Kymco scooter... or at least that is what the advertisement would let you believe. I found the ad in a local French motorcycle magazine, I kind of liked the image (I just scanned the image not the ad itself).

So if you want to be an angel, or a devil, you know what to do....

]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/kymco-gives-you-wings.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/kymco-gives-you-wings.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/kymco-gives-you-wings.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/kymco-gives-you-wings.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/kymco-gives-you-wings.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 29 Aug 2012 18:00:00 +0200

#electric #e-bikes - There are many reasons why people decided not to buy an electric scooter or motorcycle. Although many of the traditional reasons, like performance, range and even price, are becoming less of a factor, one reason not to buy an e-Bike is the battery charging method.

Simply put, you need to have a power outlet where you park your motorcycle. If you live in a house, it will not be a great problem, even if you don't have a power outlet outside. You can make do.... but houses are usually found outside the big cities, in the suburbs. If you live in the city, and have an apartment, you could be out of luck. Even if you're lucky enough to have an underground parking space, chances are that there's no power outlet. If you don't have a parking space, you're not going to hang a power cord down your window 15 floors down to charge your scooter or motorcycle, are you?

So the only sensible thing is to take the battery with you. But 99% of the electric motorcycles and scooters don't allow you to do this. Their batteries are embedded deeply inside the vehicle, and are often very heavy. The e-Solex was one of the first to allow their customer to remove the battery and take it home to charge. But the battery is relatively small and light.

Now there's Govecs...........

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]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/govecs-the-right-way-of-doing-electric-scooter-batteries.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/govecs-the-right-way-of-doing-electric-scooter-batteries.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/govecs-the-right-way-of-doing-electric-scooter-batteries.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/govecs-the-right-way-of-doing-electric-scooter-batteries.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/govecs-the-right-way-of-doing-electric-scooter-batteries.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 2 Aug 2012 18:00:00 +0200

Piaggio released an optional kit for their X10 series of scooters that allows you to hook up your iPhone (and shortly Android) smartphone to your scooter, which will then tell you, without wires, all your telemetric data, like speed, fuel consumption, battery, when to replace your tires, tire pressure and if you have a GPS/Navigation unit app installed, where to go to get fuel, since it knows when you are running out.

With a large number of extra functions, like your owner manual, downloadable telemetric data and others, you'll not need the old fashion onboard dashboard.

We might even find the Piaggio PMP (Piaggio Multimedia Platform) on Aprilia, Moto Guzzi and Vespa models in the near future. How cool is that?

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]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/iphone-connected-piaggio-scooters.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/iphone-connected-piaggio-scooters.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/iphone-connected-piaggio-scooters.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/iphone-connected-piaggio-scooters.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/iphone-connected-piaggio-scooters.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 17 May 2012 14:00:00 +0200

If your scooter sleeps outside during the night, especially in the winter, here's something you can make to keep it warm...

.. or you can just use it as it was intended to be used, decoration. The scooter is a crochet, but you can not buy it. No, you're going to have to work for it. You buy the pattern, and then you spend the next weeks crocheting the thing together.

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]]>http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/if-your-scooter-gets-cold-at-night-here-is-a-solution.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/if-your-scooter-gets-cold-at-night-here-is-a-solution.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/if-your-scooter-gets-cold-at-night-here-is-a-solution.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdxcomments/if-your-scooter-gets-cold-at-night-here-is-a-solution.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/if-your-scooter-gets-cold-at-night-here-is-a-solution.htm?opendocument&comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0200

Three companies got together back in 2007 to develop better motorcycles, and here is their first brainchild. The three companies, Inmotec (Moto2 and Moto3 racing technology), Luma (Europe's biggest anti-theft devices) and Dhemen (industrial design group).

The joint venture company is called LEM, and their first product is named LEMev Stream, and it is an electric scooter. The scooter is 100% Spanish, designed and built there, and funded by national and local authorities.

]]>http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/first-all-spanish-electric-scooter---lemev-stream.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/first-all-spanish-electric-scooter---lemev-stream.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/first-all-spanish-electric-scooter---lemev-stream.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdxcomments/first-all-spanish-electric-scooter---lemev-stream.htm http://192.168.1.4/Testblogs.nsfdx/first-all-spanish-electric-scooter---lemev-stream.htm?opendocument&comments Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:00:00 +0200

These are pretty amazing statistics coming from the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics (OFS). Overall in 2010, there were 5.36 million vehicles circulating in Switzerland, of which 12% were motorcycles.

In the last 20 years, the number of motorcycle doubled, from 299,264 to 651,252 in 2010, but it's the number of scooters that blows your mind (well, at least it did mine). In the last 20 years, the number of scooters was multiplied by a factor of 20, representing 37% of the motorcycle park.

]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/switzerland-20-times-more-scooters-last-20-years.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/switzerland-20-times-more-scooters-last-20-years.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/switzerland-20-times-more-scooters-last-20-years.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/switzerland-20-times-more-scooters-last-20-years.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/switzerland-20-times-more-scooters-last-20-years.htm?opendocument&comments Wed, 4 Jan 2012 18:00:00 +0200

Just because you are disabled and want to ride a motorcycle or scooter, doesn't lean that the scooter has to look like crap....

A company in Italy has designed a really nice package for disabled bikers; called the HDX3, it's a scooter based on the popular Honda SH 125 with an electrically, and remote, operated loading platform for wheelchair.

They plan to sell the scooter for an affordable price. Looks good...

]]>http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/hdx3---mobility-scooter-the-italian-way.htmScootersMike Wernerhttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/hdx3---mobility-scooter-the-italian-way.htm?opendocument&commentshttp://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/hdx3---mobility-scooter-the-italian-way.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dxcomments/hdx3---mobility-scooter-the-italian-way.htm http://news.motorbiker.org/blogs.nsf/dx/hdx3---mobility-scooter-the-italian-way.htm?opendocument&comments