Search results for: “harley electric”
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An electric Indian? Polaris Industries buys Brammo electric motorcycles
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Polaris Industries Inc – owner of Indian Motorcycles – has announced it’s acquired the electric motorcycle business of Brammo Inc. Acting as a leading investor, it’s said that Polaris’ $3.8 billion dollar muscle will allow the creator of the recently reviewed Empulse R to focus exclusively on the design, development and integration of electric vehicle power trains. Polaris bought…
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Living with an electric motorcycle: The truth | Brammo Empulse R road test
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Editor John Milbank spent a few days with a Brammo Empulse R electric motorcycle to find out if it’s time to ditch the pump. Photos: Simon Hipperson This bike probably isn’t for you. Chances are you enjoy a good thrash at the weekend, touring to far flung reaches of the globe, or racking up miles on…
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2014 Harley-Davidson FLHTK Ultra Limited review
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£21,395| 1690cc 4 stroke oil and water-cooled twin | 102lb-ft @ 3750rpm Touch screen displays, LED headlights and oil/water-cooled engines… These aren’t the things of Harley-Davidson are they? With the new 2014 Project Rushmore Touring bikes they are, but don’t worry – they’re still Harleys through and through. With feedback from their customers and…
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Day Ride: Crans-Montana to Swiss Passes
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Three of Europe’s most well-known mountain passes, all covered in one day of mind-bending scenery and nerve-wrenching hairpins.
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Long Termers: Indian Challenger
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Motorcycle Sport & Leisure Magazine Editor Dave Manning feeds back on his five months with the Indian he intercontinental ballistic cruise missile that is the Challenger has now returned to Indian. There are a few things that I’ll not miss, as I slide my weary behind on to any one of a number of significantly…
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Cost-Effective Classics: Kawasaki VN900
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“If you fancy a change from the vanilla side of biking then a Metric Cruiser like the VN900 is probably one of the best places to start.” WORDS: Steve Cooper PHOTOS: Mortons Archive Not everyone wants or needs out-and out-speed. For many sports bikes are simply too much and, if you’re not into transcontinental stuff,…
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Social Distance
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Radical bikes, bikes that push the boundaries, these days are few and far between. Back in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s there were many built but, as we’ve moved slowly and inexorably further into the 21st Century, that trend’s slowed almost to a stop…
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V4 Fireblade?
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Honda is continually registering new patents for the V4, such as cylinder deactivation and a reverse rotating crankshaft – similar to Ducati’s. Honda’s V4 with load-sensing cylinder deactivation may not be a new invention, having been patented as early as 2013 in Japan and the USA. Only recently in 2021, did it receive patent protection…
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GSX 1100 Extra Tidy
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When Suzuki released the four-valves-per-cylinder GSX1100 on the motorcycling world in 1980, it obviously had something very different in mind than the bike you see before you now.
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Zero Motorcycles’ new DSR/X
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The American factory has just revealed a new adventure bike as part of its growing range of electric bikes. While we might have seen our fair share of commuter scooters and plenty of crazy concepts, actually, there’s been very few practical, realistic, ‘proper’ electric motorbikes to get all that excited about of late. Harley-Davidson has…