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Gradual Climb: Sport Bikes are the answer

Posted by automobz on August 20, 2008

Sport bikes have never caught the eye of a true blue but young and inexperienced motorcycle maniac. They are supposed to be the first ones to make you feel the rush on two wheels, yet manoeuvrable and a fun ride so you can toy around with enough of a masculine grunt. Enter the 250cc segment which would fill the criteria. Also, a beginner would relish such a ride and then graduate into the upper segment of the cubic capacity and bhp scale. Read the rest of this entry »

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BMW’s Superbike project on track

Posted by automobz on July 19, 2008

It was close to about eight months ago that BMW declared their intention of participating in the Superbike World Championship from next year onwards. Hence, BMW is working overtime in order to get the bikes race-track ready in order to lay rubber during the first race of WSBK 2009. The eagerly awaited superbike clocked some miles at the Eurospeedway Lausitzring recently. The German circuit featured on WSBK calendar till last year and this gave BMW a good comparison measure of lap times vis-à-vis lap times of previous year’s race weekend. Read the rest of this entry »

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Honda launches CBF Stunner in India

Posted by automobz on June 30, 2008

We possibly would, and surely could, have done some international car launch for our first story as it would have been a piquant material, but we waited for this. And may I just say that the wait was quite worth it. It has been a well guarded secret thus far and Honda has to be given credit for this. We were present at the launch event of a bike that promises to hot things up in its segment, so here goes… Read the rest of this entry »

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