Nanotube bike enters Tour de France

This year’s Tour de France will see cyclists fromthe Phonak Team use a bike with a frame containing carbon nanotubes. Swiss manufacturer BMC claims that the frame of its "Pro Machine" weighs less than 1 kg and has excellent stiffness and strength.

BMW R1200R

There was a time when I considered that on reaching 50, one’s life was over. Not any more. I used to think that anyone who rode a large naked BMW like an R80, R90 or R100 could be guaranteed to smell of urine, have a pipe and beard, and wear a set of Belstaffs covered in Ulysses and rally badges. Not any more. 

2008 Piaggio MP3 500

The machine I’m hauling is the Piaggio MP3 500i.e. – nothing like your grandma’s scooter, to say the least. I’ve long wanted to ride this three-wheeled machine, ever since its introduction. After being briefed on the MP3 I signed the paperwork, loaded it up and hit the road.

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2008 Harley-Davidson FLSTSB Cross Bones

Most of the Dark Customs eschew the gleam and sparkle of acres of chrome and flashy paint for black-finished parts like mirrors, hand and foot controls, engine finish, headlamp nacelle, wheels, so on and so forth. If all those bits on a particular model aren’t blackened, as is the case with the shinier Night Train or Dyna Street Bob, then, at a minimum those bikes wear darker, simpler colors, often in a matte finish.

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2008 Harley-Davidson Models

"Ho hum. What to do?" is what I imagine the team of Harley-Davidson designers, engineers and management were asking themselves when planning for yet another year of motorcycles.

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