Harley Davidson Opens New Asia Pacific Headquarters in Singapore

May 21, 2011 | Cruiser, Harley Davidson, Sport Touring, What's New |

Harley-Davidson Motor Company has made Singapore its headquarters for its operations in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Milwaukee-based company said the move was part of its bid to beef up its dealership in the region and rack up sales outside of the US.

Harley Davidson Opens New Asia Pacific Headquarters in Singapore

Harley-Davidson’s presence in Asia spans nearly a hundred years. The company said it shipped 222,000 Harley-Davidson motorcycles to dealers and distributors globally last year. In addition, retail sales in the Asia-Pacific region accounted for 9.4 per cent of that sales volume.

Its decision to finally set up a regional headquarters in Singapore underscores its >> Read More

2011 Honda CBR250R – Entry Level Sportbike

May 21, 2011 | Honda, Sportbikes, Standard |

The motorcycle business has evolved a full circle at Honda. It brought the world high-tech bikes, higher-tech bikes, superbikes and then pushed the envelope to supersports, this giant punching through every barrier of motorcycle development along the way.
honda cbr 250

The CBR250R reveals a mature side to this multinational company, who’s put on its thinking cap to conjure up a practical bike for daily use that’s also affordable.

The attractively faired CBR250R looks a full-size bike. This sporty quarter-liter motorcycle resembles Honda’s VFR1200F, also sporting a mass-centralized stance. The front fairing extends down to shroud its engine bay, and a curved visor provides ample high speed wind protection, wrapping around a sporty cockpit.

Neat attention to detail is apparent in the attractive steering head region, and you get clip-ons mounted above the triple clamp. We liked the 250R’s blue backlit LCD instruments >> Read More

2012 Victory High Ball Motorcycle

May 21, 2011 | Cruiser, Victory, What's New |

Victory Motorcycles unveiled an all-new model called the High-Ball.

The High-Ball’s minimalist, tough guy appearance results from its tip-to-tail matte finish black-out treatment, chopped fenders, ape hanger style handlebar, solo saddle and 16-inch spoke wheels carrying plump whitewall tires.

2012 Victory High Ball

It’s a look that unabashedly draws inspiration from the lowbrow bobber scene, where riders and bike fabricators in that two-wheeled subculture eschew brand loyalty, and instead fashion motorcycles into no-nonsense machines that seem to make some kind of anti-moto-establishment statement.

2012 Victory High-Ball. This latest cruiser from Victory sports a bobber motif and gives the Minnesota-based bike manufacturer a total of 16 models for 2011.

Powered by Victory’s 106-cubic-inch, sohc, 50-degree V-Twin with 6-speed >> Read More

2011 Triumph Thunderbird Storm

May 21, 2011 | Triumph, What's New |

They call the new Thunderbird “Storm” because it’s dark as threatening thunderclouds. Black is the only color it comes in and black is the color of most of its components.

2011 Thunderbird Storm

This marketing strategy has proven successful for other manufacturers and its popularity is attractive to younger motorcyclists, so it’s no surprise Triumph is also attempting to ride that trend and boost motorcycle sales.

The traditional chrome and polish of the standard Thunderbird is gone, replaced by the Storm’s darker, drag appeal. How good of a job did Triumph do in injecting the 2011 Thunderbird Storm with a new attitude? Good enough to convince a Maricopa County sheriff that a band of working motojournalists doing photo passes in the middle of the Sonoran Desert was a marauding gang of law-breaking bikers who he felt >> Read More

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