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Thursday, May 9, 2013

Suzuki Inazuma present in Indonesia


Some time ago I wrote an article about Suzuki Inazuma GW 250 kicked in the european market, Suzuki Inazuma is now present in my country "Indonesia" created by PT. INDOMOBIL SUZUKI SALES, with a view touring bike, looks great and comfortable ride.

Inspired hyperbike SUZUKI B-KING (GSX1300BK), Inazuma designed with full accuracy up to the styling details. Appearance of high class machines equipped with engine capacity of 250cc two-cylinder fuel injection which produces power 24 hp at 8,500 rpm and torque of 23.8 Nm at 6500 rpm with a futuristic accent. And Inazuma is the first motorcycle in Indonesia using twin mufflers to support the performance of the engine is responsive and in terms of look macho.

The headlights look futuristic and aggressive, so as to look more formidable, with modern Speedometer with digital indicator, and also comes with a maintenance interval indicator. Speedometer also features informative hour.

From a technical perspective and transmission, Inazuma equipped with step piston engine (caliber 53,5 mm x stroke 55.2 mm) designed powered at low to mid speed (about 4.000rpm) and 6-speed transmission that contribute to the performance top speed on the track uphill and winding road.

Suzuki Inazuma comes in two attractive colors, namely Candy Cardinal Red and Pearl Nebular Black, how much is it? for on the road in jakarta, set the price of Rp. 46,000,000, -
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013

The arduous task to test 50 motorcycles in two days


At the end of last week, days 13 and 14, happened on the proving ground of Pirelli, Sumaré, São Paulo State, the vote of motorcycles motorcycle of the year contest finalists of the Duas Rodas magazine.


The worlds largest motorcycle contest elects the best releases of the last 12 months, you must have at least three competitors in each category.  You can also participate in the "Bike of the year" from previous year and/or category most in demand, if the number of launches is not enough.

Picking up all the information from Honda GL 1800 Gold Wing


For the second consecutive year had the opportunity to join this select group of journalists who had a "difficult task" to test and vote in 50 different categories 12 bikes, in two days. "Difficult" because the level of the bikes is getting better, and in some categories it was difficult to appoint a winner.


The questions on which we have 5 to 10 notes were: engine, suspension, brake, Comfort, Manoeuvrability, Design and Cost-Benefit.  The latter weighed to improve or worsen the average of several of them.


Besides me, the jury was composed by Arthur boiler (Infomoto Agency), Celso Martinez, (Canal Nostalgia), Cicero (Duas Rodas magazine), Leandro Mello (Program Auto Sport/the Duas Rodas magazine), Roberto Demarco (newspaper O Globo) and Téo Mascarenhas (O Estado de Minas).  The public can also participate by voting via the magazines website.  The result will be announced on the evening of 24 October.  Stay tuned!


Here are the finalists:


Motor Scooter
Honda Biz 100
Honda Biz 125
Kasinski Win Eletrika


Street up to 150cc
Dafra Riva 150
Honda CG 150 Flex Fan
Suzuki GSR 150i


Street up to 300cc
Dafra Roadwin 250R
Dafra Next 250
Honda CBR 250R
Honda CB 300R
Yamaha Make 250 BlueFlex tip


Trail
Honda NX 400i Falco
Honda NXR 150 Bros
Honda XRE 300
Kasinski CRZ 150


Big trail up to 800cc
BMW G 650GS Backwoods
Honda NC 700X
Honda XL 700V Transalp
Kawasaki Versys 650 City
Yamaha XT 660Z Ténéré


Big trail up to 1200cc
BMW R 1200GS
Honda VFR 1200X Crosstourer
Kawasaki Versys 1000
Yamaha XT 1200Z Super Ténéré


Touring
Harley-Davidson Street Glide
Harley-Davidson Electra Glide Ultra Limited
Harley-Davidson CVO Ultra Classic Electra Glide
Honda GL 1800 Gold Wing
Kawasaki Concours 14


Sport-touring
Honda CBR 600F
Honda VFR 1200F
Kawasaki Ninja 650
Kawasaki Ninja 1000
Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R


Sport
BMW S 1000RR
Honda CBR 1000RR
MV Agusta F4
Yamaha YZF R1


Naked up to 800cc
BMW F 800R
Honda CB 600F Hornet
Kawasaki ER-6
Kasinski Comet 650 GT


Naked up to 1200cc
Honda CB 1000R
Kawasaki Z1000
MV Agusta Brutale 1090


Custom
Harley-Davidson Dyna Switchback 1600
Harley-Davidson Fat Bob 1600
Harley-Davidson Night Rod Special 1250
Suzuki Boulevard M800R
Suzuki Boulevard M1500R

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Sunday, May 5, 2013

YAMAHA MAKES A GRAND ENTRY IN THE SCOOTER SEGMENT LAUNCHES THE ALL NEW RAY

City, 14th September 2012: India Yamaha Locomote disclosed its some expected sporty and classy motorboat, the all new RAY, in City today. With Ray, the Associate formally announced its entry into the apace ontogenesis Indian motorboat divide. RAY is the archetypal Yamaha modelling to follow India's vessel Portion and is strategically positioned to alter Yamaha's percentage in the Indian industry. With the component of the vessel Ray in its portfolio, Bharat Yamaha travel is sensing at a mart acquire of 20% in the watercraft part by 2016.

Yamaha's judgement to commence the vessel segment in Bharat was arrived at by vision the immense exact that this divide is witnessing in the land, with college students and offspring working women viewing redoubled relation to purchase pass metric and highly businesslike scooters. The new RAY has been fashioned and engineered to solve the needs of this development categorize of schoolgirlish pistillate customers who necessary a powerboat that is stylishly intentional, car, unchaste to use and bang to arouse Bollywood actress and India Yamaha Motor's Variety Diplomatist for 'Ray', Ms. Deepika Padukone to unveil the all new product.

The new RAY offers prizewinning in collection acceleration, comfortable direction & mobility and angelic gas efficiency. It is seaworthy with an air-cooled 4-stroke 113cc engine with CVT (Dogging protean transmission) that boasts excellent reliability. The engine achieves secure hydrocarbon frugalness in the practical-use deepen compass, a state signaling characterized by unsubdivided start-up firm, groundbreaking styling supported on a ornament idea of state "Sophisticated & Propulsive," and is rumbling of tight touches that women will apprise, suchlike a put designed with promiscuous leg labor to the connective and repose of mounting in listen, plenteous hardware interval and soft to manipulate centrist and lateral stands. 

At the begin, Mr. Hiroyuki Yanagi, Presidency and CEO of Yamaha Travel Co. Ltd., said "For the circular Yamaha Causative set, Bharat Yamaha Motorial holds outstanding grandness as a strategic production and income supposition. By 2018, our complete production susceptibility in India gift labour 2.8 million units. At that disc, Bharat present sport an extremely consequential part among Yamaha grouping, not upright in supplying to the Asian husbandly market but also in commerce to added markets around the domain. We instrument be employed aggressively to human our stylish technologies to Talking on the time, Mr. Hiroyuki Suzuki, CEO & MD, Bharat Yamaha Move Pvt. Ltd. said, "I am optimistic that we can get a sinewy presence soon in the Indian scooter marketplace. Our dealers in Bharat are sacred to improving their facilities and services for the scooter sales. We hit enlarged our dealer scheme and specially developed consumer aid character for someone customers by appointing many individual staffs at client representative points and introducing human client fear programs."

"Secondly, we made an promulgation to build a new manufactory in Chennai. We are preparation to start this new plant from 2014 Jan. With this production power treatment, we are targeting to accomplish 1 cardinal units income in 2014. We gift increase our unconditional creation susceptibleness boost in the far term. We are intellection to increase our sales to 2 meg units in 2016 and 2.8 cardinal units in 2018", he adscititious.

The affiliate has started a new facility connexion for scooters which is run solely by women employees. This is the basic instance in Bharat that a visitant has matured scooters for women collective by women. The lot has also developed a moving upbringing promulgation for female customers. The travelling preparation thought is named as Yamaha Mortal Riding Upbringing document and leave be implemented crosswise Bharat. 

This model present be manufactured and marketed by Yamaha Causative assemble visitant India Yamaha Travel Pvt. Ltd. (IYM) and will be useable in Plush Pink, Colourise Pastel, Sunny Sky, Vino Blissfulness, Achromatic Grandeur and Colorful Topology colors. It leave be priced at Rs. 46,000/- (Ex-showroom Delhi).

Mart and Fluid Accentuate
The Asiatic motorcycle industry has a flowing period status of around 13 1000000 units (Yamaha Causative survey, 2011 results) and, with factors equivalent ceaseless hefty consumer spending and accumulation development, this responsibility is supposed to outgo China's within 2012 to pass Bharat the world's largest motorcycle industry. 

Within this industry, the powerboat aggregation, which accounted for roughly 11% of complete condition at about 900,000 units in 2006, has grown apace over the net team eld to come near 18% of complete condition at roughly 2.4 cardinal units in 2011. 

Most new, the activity has seen a cooling plume of consumer certainty and more due to factors like the ascension price of gas and continuing top stake rates on loans. Spell this has caused a swiftness of industry growth overall, continuing maturation in the scooter accumulation is works supposed as the ontogenesis numerate of women ingress order with a essential for private mobility increases the obstacle of possibility watercraft users. 

In India's watercraft mart, the important assistant types are larger-bodied models with a sagacity of unit and volume targeting antheral users and models knowing to be shared in use among the intact folk. But, there were thriving calls for an smooth to use, concentrated possibility that fit the needs of a ontogenesis identify of somebody users. The new RAY has been designed and engineered with this activity backcloth in knowledge and also with the aim of targeting junior women for whom arrangement and good new advert
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