2011 Kawasaki Ninja 400R – Kawasaki released the new 2011 Ninja 400R, a 400-cc sport-model motorcycle in Japan on August 1st. In response to market demand, Kawasaki began selling of the Ninja 400R, a general sport-model with genuine full fairing to give it both aggressive styling and refined functional beauty and make it ready for anything from sport riding to touring.

The Ninja 400R has a liquid-cooled, four-stroke, parallel twin-cylinder DOHC four-valve engine (399 cm3). The unique parallel twin-cylinder engine gives power characteristics that are powerful at low- and mid-range speeds and respond agilely at high speeds. Besides fuel injection, the Ninja 400R is equipped with sub-throttle valves to optimize intake air.

With genuine full fairing handed down from the super-sport Ninja series, the Ninja 400R offers aggro styling and great wind protection both suited to high speeds. The Ninja 400R’s aluminum grab bars may be sharp looking but their shape and positioning also ease tiredness on long rides and make riding with a passenger easier.

The Ninja 400R’s instrument panel has a multi-function LCD display with a sporty design modeled on racing machines. It is equipped with a digital speedometer, digital bar-style tachometer, fuel gauge, clock, and odometer/trip-meter. The Ninja 400R’s LED taillights are compact and offer excellent visibility. [ultimatemotorcycling]

2010 Norton Commando 961 SE – The 961 Commando SE signifies a new beginning for Norton Motorcycles. Designed and created from the ground up, this bike proceeds the Norton heritage of characterized style and performance. This modern roadster displays the soul of the initial machine. Classic sculptural shapes are mixed with raw functionalism, laying gorgeous styles over a structural frame and muscular motor; resulting in a visual language that is both sensual and functional. With a very narrow waist and curves in just the right places, the 961 is a roadster that feels as good as it appears.

2010 Norton Commando 961 SE is equipped by parallel twin with push-rod valve actuation engine which makes power 80PS at 6500RPM and torque 90Nm at 5200RPM. Easy and direct engineering solutions are used to make a motor that is visually and mechanically sophisticated; efficiently assembled in production, and easily preserved or upgraded in the owner’s garage.

Chassis placed is Carbon Fiber wheels lessen the un-sprung weight; while 43mm, 3-way adjustable Ohlins front forks, and 4-way adjustable “piggy back” rear shocks provide an unparalleled connection with the road. Brembo Gold Line brakes mix great power and sensitive feedback. The chro-moly tubular steel frame and a 56.5 inch wheelbase, 24.5 degrees of rake and 4 inches of trail offer athletic handling in the mountain passes and relaxed handling in hi-speed sweepers or just along the open road. Careful engineering analysis using FEA and physical testing has been employed to optimize the design for performance and safety. [totalmotorcycle]

2010 Harley-Davidson FLSTFB Fat Boy Lo – The 2010 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Lo keeps the striking appearance of the Fat Boy while offering a fresh decryption of the motorcycle that still identifies the segment with the darker and lower than that initial icon of fat-custom style.

Dressed in satin chrome and denim black, the Fat Boy Lo model attributes a reformed seat and handlebar that puts its rider “in” the bike, with the lowest seat height of any Harley-Davidson model. The half-moon footboards, black wheels and leather tank panel help Fat Boy Lo rock to a unique, fat-custom beat.

The Fat Boy Lo is a Harley-Davidson Softail model with a rear-suspension design that copies the lines of a classic hardtail frame, but offers the comfort of modern suspension that is covered under the chassis. A horseshoe oil tank placed below the seat, forward foot controls or foot boards, and the typical five-gallon Fat Bob fuel tank are noteworthy styling details of each Softail model.

A counter-balanced Twin Cam 96B V-Twin powertrain, stiff-mounted in the frame, forces the Fat Boy Lo model. The stiff powertrain enables tight packaging of the engine within the frame. Scored at 93.67 ft. lbs. of peak torque at 3000 rpm, the engine functions Electronic Sequential Port Fuel Injection (ESPFI) and is finished in black powdercoat with bright machined highlights on the cylinder fins, and satin-chrome engine and primary drive covers. The 6-Speed Cruise Drive transmission attributes a new helical-cut 5th gear for soft operation. [topspeed]

2009 Triumph Bonneville SE – The 2009 Triumph Bonneville SE is a bike that mixes old-time style, size and lightness with modern features like good brakes, engine smoothness and stability—and none of those pesky starting troubles or oil leaks. Triumph has been offering its “modern classics” for a couple of years now. The newest Bonnevilles have been given a ’70s styling treatment and some chassis upgrades including new 17-inch cast wheels, new fenders and the megaphone exhausts from the Thruxton model. Other modifications include a handlebar that brings the grips closer to the rider, and the seat has been lowered. What makes it different is that the SE model includes a tachometer, chromed tank badges and brushed alloy engine cases.

The Bonneville SE is equipped with an air-cooled, DOHC parallel twin-cylinder engine that displaces 865cc. This results in a very rev-happy big-bore/short-stroke configuration that enables our test bike to rev to 8,000 rpm. It features four valves per cylinder, and uses a 360-degree crankshaft together with twin balancer shafts to keep it running smoothly. Final drive on all these types is by X-ring chain. An oil cooler helps the SE reduce some of the BTUs produced by its engine, and it’s all hung within a tubular-steel cradle frame with tube-steel swingarm.

Triumph equipped the SE with a set of Metzeler radials, an MEz4 front and MEz2 rear. Triumph has also fitted the SE with suitable brakes, a single front 310mm disc compressed by a floating two-piston Nissin caliper, and a 255mm rear disc with another two-piston caliper. While we don’t think of two-piston calipers as delivering significant braking force, the front was shockingly strong and offered safe stops, and the rear is a good complement to it. [ridermagazine]

2011 Honda PCX 125 Scooter – Honda published a worldwide release of the new product, the Honda PCX 125 Scooter. The PCX is set for an international release, with just a few small differences between what US buyers will get from their counterparts in everywhere. The PCX suits into what may be the sweet spot for a global scootering product. At 125cc, it suits right in between the smaller entry-level models and the bigger freeway-legal models.

That PCX 125 is a liquid-cooled, fuel-injected, single overhead cam design with an 11.0:1 compression ratio. Honda’s V-Matic automatic transmission gets power to the rear wheel. One technological key omitted is an “idling stop system” that automatically stops the motor during prolonged idling and restarts it as the throttle is turned. It’s claimed to earn a 5% savings in fuel economy but was left off the US version because riding here seems to be a combination of urban and countryside riding, which would lessen the advantages of the urban-intended system.

Like all Honda products, the PCX sensed well-made, familiar and friendly. Build quality is great, with attractive paint and lots of interesting details to take in, like the chrome handlebar and frame around the steering head that contrasts stylishly with the ultra-modern plastic bodywork. Underway, the PCX is responsive and easy to ride. The motor is most joyful at lower revs, where it gives instant response and surprising torque from a standstill. [motorcycle-usa]

2010 Yamaha XT1200Z Super Tenere – There was a time when Yamaha’s Tenere array of bikes led the world, nearly. As desert and dirt blasters for similar to Paris-Dakar tournaments, the title Tenere became identified with adventure and off-road riding. Then it stopped and BMW got off the mantle of Adventure bike winners with its modern-day GS range. The debut of the XT1200Z Super Tenere takes this adventure theme further. As good as the Super Ten is, it can’t live with its competitors in terms of on-road performance, build quality and all-round fun-factor.

A 1199cc liquid-cooled parallel twin that is as good at autobahn speeds as it is hauling rider, pillion and luggage. The engine is smooth and there is low feel. MotoGP tech includes in this engine – by putting the crankshaft nearer to the rider and low in the chassis, while keeping good off-road ground clearance, the crank’s gyro impact doesn’t intrude on the bike’s steering. Yamaha’s ECU-servo throttle-injection system also figures.

The Super Tenere has a grip control system that is barely detectable when it cuts in and can be turned off for off-road use, smart ABS and connected brake system that can evaluate lever pressure towards speed and stabilize the braking work between front and rear. Only use the rear brake and its ABS module doesn’t cut in to let safe turning around in the middle of the road, fuss-free base drive, complete pannier system. [motorcyclenews]

2009 Piaggio BV500 – The particular BV500 is simply easiness totally from typically the 1st twist of typically the wrist. Its twist-and-go CVT transmission is considered to be have the ability of flowing together with the actual local traffic, and consequently huge adequate to be able to trek just like its Tourer title signifies. This provides that a huge, comfortable seat coupled along with close to 500cc of Gilera/Piaggio engineering. Released in order to typically the U.S. current market within ‘06 as Piaggio’s biggest scooter, the actual Beverly’s 460cc water-cooled Single is definitely fixed along with EFI and also functions that a single overhead cam in order to actuate its 4 valves, revs to be able to 7500 rpm, and furthermore , is actually great intended for also , a stated 40 horsepower.

Titled as that a “tourer,” the actual 500 BV is certainly have the ability of road rates of speed and in addition 55 miles in order for the particular gallon, and furthermore , even though this may not replace truly , a want needed for for a Gold Wing, adopting also , a low-impact driving vessel just like this excellent scooter would certainly need much less area within the actual garage and so may support that you save money meant for of the fact that Wing. Right after also , a short precious time referring to the particular huge Piaggio that you notice this very easily dispels typically the familiar misconception of scooters being wimpy, as its high-revving engine is definitely have the ability of destroying canyons as well as piling on the the actual miles together with convenience.

Generally volume, however, leaves something in order for possibly be wanted. The actual contour of the actual BV’s underseat safe-keeping is actually irregular sufficient that have taking goods is considered to be a bit more hard other than we determined referring to the particular MP3. For the purpose of truly long hauls referring to your Tourer, you’ll need in order for think about the particular accessory hard-case trunk which often mates for typically the BV’s back rack, or maybe a strap at that a pair of soft-sided saddlebags in order to portage many the particular things needed for the purpose of any kind of like overnighters. [motorcycle]

2009 Honda Ruckus Scooter – As in order for the actual purpose the reason why like truly , a pitiful motor powers typically the scooter, our finest guess is almost certainly that have many states don’t want also , a permit also training to be able to use sub-50cc scooters ‘ producing the particular Ruckus truly , a well known, simple sell. Typically the perverted logic would make lesser impression the actual a lot more that you analyze this: Provide for a fully un-roadworthy device in order for riders however for show their riding capability. The actual 2009 Ruckus sources that a 49cc liquid-cooled, 4-stroke Single, which often is considered to be basically too smaller for the purpose of real-world driveways.

Within reality, they may choose to be purchasing one specially to be able to prevent doing therefore! This used for end up being sub-50cc scooters were even more potent 2-strokes, but at present 4-strokes are the actual default, casting the actual road-worthiness of the actual whole category within doubt ‘ at just least if the particular Ruckus is considered to be that a fair representation.

The particular low-30s best velocity severely limit the particular useful turf that a Ruckus is truly suit to be able to prowl. For a lagging throttle as well as meager speeding total the actual generally bad engine operation. And also this merely receives worse that comes with the actual slightest elevation shift, as best rates of speed drop for freakish levels ‘ not even 20 mph within several instances. [cycletrader]

2010 Royal Enfield Electra EFI – Established referring to the actual preferred as well as well established Electra, right now that comes with the particular most brand new unit build fuel-injected engine, that is certainly conventional motorcycling that comes with for a new twist. The actual Electra EFI seems and furthermore , sounds just like also , a common British single, but that comes with also , a essential operation boost, great fuel economy and also greatly reduced exhaust emissions.

The actual Bullet Electra is truly truly , a old motorcycle, simplistic within model that comes with for a brand new, robust and in addition dependable unit design engine. Ease takes that a front seat together with gas stuffed shock absorbers as well as also , a sub mode.

The actual Luxurious model of typically the Electra functions that a chrome tank, matching chrome mudguards, hand painted pin stripes on the the particular part panels and in addition conventional pattern Avon Speedmaster tyres. This amazing offers typically the fuel-injected Electra the actual common Bullet glimpse of the particular 1950’s but together with new operation and in addition dependability. [totalmotorcycle]

2009 Vespa GTS300 Super – Chi Vespa mangia la mele. That’s Vespa’s 1970s ad slogan, that implies, “Those who else vehicle Vespa eat typically the apple.” Trust me: Its connotations are each little as juicy as the particular forbidden fruit for that this alludes. The following super-scooter even retains its own at typically the the road associated with for a main velocity all around 80 mph, but it’s fairly much at just typically the main of its powerband. So that end up being careful-you can’t just juice this out of sticky conditions. The particular GTS 300 triumphs associated with its potential in order to create romance within the actual mundane. Park this within front of Olive Garden, blur your eyes, and as a consequence voila, you actually suddenly look woozy that comes with the actual ambience of Tuscany.

This particular heartthrob may currently have had for a growth spurt, but this didn’t miss for a styling overcom. Cosmetic updates feature also , a grille on the typically the part back engine panel, two-tone alloy wheels and in addition also , a chrome air intake. As well as just like almost all 17 million Vespas just that currently have rolled off the actual Pontadera assembly range as ‘46, it’s designed associated with the actual corporation’s exclusive steel-unibody chassis meant for really serious rigidity and furthermore , specific handling. But many just that steel still doesn’t might seem in order to vacation traffic-signal devices. In order for obtain for a green gentle you actually have definitely for wait patiently until truly , a cage rolls further up in order to check out your flirty Italian ride-which usually doesn’t just take long.

For a twist-and-go CVT automatic transmission tends to make the particular GTS300 that a excellent starter bike; brand new riders can certainly get around traffic without having truly , a care within typically the world besides whether they’re color-coordinated. And so when you’re riding the particular motorbike of the fact that singlehandedly crafted the actual look of the actual scooter-riding, beanpole-legged Italian along with for a hand-rolled cigarette dripping originally from his lips, just that should come to be also , a chief concern. [motorcyclistonline]