Honda Motorbikes: Bikes in the Fast Lane: Matra Announce 1st Electric Sidecar plus 2 more

Monday, April 23, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Matra Announce 1st Electric Sidecar plus 2 more

Matra Announce 1st Electric Sidecar
Monaco: Unique Auction, Including Ducati MotoGP Motorcycles
When Is ATGATT To Far?

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 09:00 AM PDT

#sidecar #electric - To our knowledge this is the first ever electric sidecar that will appear in the market shortly. But before you imagine an electric Ural or similar, I'm sorry to have to disappoint you.

The Matra SIDE is an electric scooter, with an equivalent of a 50cc engine, i.e., a moped. The SIDE uses as basis the Matra e-MO XP electric scooter, to which they have added a sidecar.

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Monaco: Unique Auction, Including Ducati MotoGP Motorcycles

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 05:00 AM PDT

RM Auctions are going to have a ball in Monaco. On May 11th, they will be auctioning off the Carlo Saltarelli collection of Ducati motorcycles. Saltarelli was a Ducati motorcycle tester and a big Ducati dealer. His private collection includes many vintage bikes (some 100 bikes), including several Ducati Scramblers, a GT Police Bike and even a 1947 Ducati Cucciolo 48 and a 1950 Ducati 60.

Going through the on-line catalog is an event on its own, so if you have some time on your hands, head on over. It's the only thing that will not cost you any money.

Apart from the Saltarelli collection going under the hammer, Ducati is also bringing in for auction the race bikes used by Casey Stoner, Ducati Desmosedici GP10 « CS1 » (the world championship bike with 4232 km on the counter), and last year's Ducati Desmosedici GP11 « VR2 » of Valentino Rossi (the bike has only 2342 km done).

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