Kawasaki Ninja 250R INDIA

This is the kawasaki top selling street bike in abroad, not zx-6r, no zzr 1400, its new ninja 250r. Kawasaki has been Ninja 250r in multi digits. Kawasaki has been selling this 250 ninja for almost 20 years, now they considered for upgrade and developed a brand new Kawasaki ninja 250r.. To have a look like other series ninjas, they have totally redesigned the bike, totally redesigned body works, the engines is also been upgraded with new valves, shafts, new transmission new 2 to 1 exhaust. Amazing thing is that kawasaki has also redesigned the chassis for new ninja. New forks replaces the old ones, and rear shocks adjustable for preload. New pedal type brakes with two piston caliper as well as two piston caliper back. Riding position is fine, you would feel much more sportier that our Indian bikes like Yamaha r15. The seats are also comfortable and handle bar raised, raike is swept in by 1 degree, which make this bike nimble in turning and feels too light. Totally designed for beginners. The older ninja use to have temperature gauge which is been replaced by fuel gauge. Has 17 inch front wheel earlier had 16 inch front wheel. Front forks is also new for new ninja. No single piece of bodywork on this new bike. the Fuel tank offers 18.144 liters of fuel and the tank is raised to a kind of sport bike looks. The ninja has linear pickup. Earlier ninja use to have dual exhaust but the new one has stylish single exhaust.

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Old Kawasaki Ninja 250r

Stylish two to one exhaust.

New Tail lights with the new Ninja

Futuristic looking muffler, with cutting-edge styling features.

Sporty design concept for India

2010 Kawasaki Ninja 250R Specifications:
Engine Type	Four-stroke, liquid-cooled, DOHC, parallel twin 249cc
Bore and Stroke:	62.0 x 41.2mm
Compression Ratio:	11.6:1
Valve Train:	four valves per cylinder
Induction:	Carburetor Keihin CVK30 x 2
Ignition:	Ignition Digital
Transmission:	Six-speed
Final Drive:	O-Ring Chain
Front Suspension:	37mm hydraulic telescopic fork
Rear Suspension:	Bottom-Link UNI-TRAK® with 5-way adjustable preload
Front Brakes:	Single 290mm hydraulic disc with two-piston caliper
Rear Brake:	Single 220mm petal disc with two-piston caliper
Seat Height:	30.5 in
Fuel Capacity:	4.8 gal.
Curb Weight:	374.9 lbs.

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Ducati Paso

The Cagiva (from CAstiglioni GIovanni VArese) company, founded by the Castiglioni brothers, needed an engine - while Ducati, who had just been released from a difficult past of statutory public management (IRI), needed revenue.
Over a series of Italian style meetings/lunches in 1984, they agreed a deal for Ducati to supply engines to Cagiva - and then go out of the business of producing motorcycles. However, the Castiglioni brothers of Cagiva were eventually offered a deal to buy Ducati, subject to the Ducati name living on as an actual motorcycle product. On closure of the deal, Ducati engines were instantly installed in a number of Cagiva bikes, which included the Alazzurra and the Elephant enduro bike.
At the time of the takeover, due to its financial difficulties Ducati was in a state of suspended animation with regards to engineering development. By that time, the classic bevel drive V-twin, which was old and expensive to produce, had been replaced by the belt-drive Pantah, designed by Fabio Taglioni. The Pantah was already known to be a strong and capable engine, and known to deliver in the Ducati 750 F1.
The Pantah engine has been constantly developed up to the present day, and remains the only production motorcycle equipped with desmodromic valves. And around it they wanted a Ducati motorcycle unlike any other, that showed the world both Ducati's capabilities, and where it would go in the future.

Unfortunately commercial success didn't come, and worldwide the Paso 750 only sold 4,863 units between its introduction in 1986 and 1988. The Paso was more expensive and had lower performance (72.5 hp and 210 km/h top speed) than its competitors, and had some reliability and rideability problems with the electrical and fuel systems, due to the use of an automotive Weber carburetor, which was ill-suited to a small-capacity motorcycle engine.
In 1989 the Paso 906 was introduced to replace the 750, with a six-speed gearbox, a 904 cc engine which provided 88 hp and a 220 km/h top speed. The bike still had the same automotive carburettor and unreliable electrical system, but its greatest development was the incorporation of liquid cooling. 1,802 Paso 906's were built between 1988 and 1989.
After further development, the final version of the design came in 1990 with the 907IE (Iniezione Elettronica); now without the name "Paso". The engine remained liquid-cooled and the carburetor was replaced by the most modern Weber-Marelli IAW 043 system that integrated ignition and electronic fuel injection, which transformed the rideability of the bike. Power increased to 90 hp and top speed to 230 km/h. The wheels were changed to 17 inches, giving the bike more stability.
Despite these advances sales of this model remained sluggish, and when production ceased in 1992 only 2,303 907IE's had been built.

 

Thunderbike-OpenMind

Thunderbike was founded in 1985, as a Suzuki dealer named Motorradschuppen (eng.: motorcycle shed) in the small town of Hamminkeln in western Germany. ^[1] Between 1987 and 2001 the Thunderbike Team was successful at the German racing series Deutsche Langstreckenmeisterschaft and produced many customized sports bikes.
In 2003, Thunderbike began to customize Harley-Davidson motorcycles and started to create self-produced frames, custom-wheels and other parts. They reached the 2nd place at the AMD World Championship in 2006 and became one of the most successful European customizers.

Moto Guzzi

Moto Guzzi was conceived by two aircraft pilots and their mechanic serving in the Corpo Aeronautico Militare (the Italian Air Corp, CAM) during World War I: Carlo Guzzi, Giovanni Ravelli and Giorgio Parodi. Assigned to the same Miraglia Squadron based outside Venice,^[4] the three became close, despite coming from different socio-economic backgrounds. The trio envisioned creating a motorcycle company after the war. Guzzi would engineer the motor bikes, Parodi (the son of wealthy Genovese ship-owners) would finance the venture, and Ravelli (already a famous pilot and motorcycle racer) would promote the bikes with his racing prowess. Guzzi and Parodi (along with Parodi's brother) formed Moto Guzzi in 1921. Ravelli, ironically, had died just days after the war's end in an aircraft crash and is commemorated by the eagle's wings that form the Moto Guzzi logo.^{[citation needed]}

Moto Guzzi, Museum of Brescello.

The GT Norge, Moto Guzzi Museum, Mandello del Lario, driven 4,000 miles (6,400 km) to the Arctic Circle in 1928.

Carlo Guzzi and Giorgio Parodi,along with Giorgio's brother Angelo, created a privately held silent partnership "Società Anonima Moto Guzzi" on 15 March 1921, for the purpose of (according to the original articles of incorporation) "the manufacture and the sale of motor cycles and any other activity in relation to or connected to metallurgical and mechanical industry".
The formation of the company hinged on an initial loan of two thousand Lira from the Parodis' father, Emanuele Vittorio, which he gave on 3 January 1919, offering the balance of the loan upon his review of the project's progress