Thursday, August 2, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

iPhone Connected Piaggio Scooters

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Piaggio PMP/iPhone
Piaggio logo
Piaggio released an optional kit for their X10 series of scooters that allows you to hook up your iPhone (and shortly Android) smartphone to your scooter, which will then tell you, without wires, all your telemetric data, like speed, fuel consumption, battery, when to replace your tires, tire pressure and if you have a GPS/Navigation unit app installed, where to go to get fuel, since it knows when you are running out.

With a large number of extra functions, like your owner manual, downloadable telemetric data and others, you'll not need the old fashion onboard dashboard.

We might even find the Piaggio PMP (Piaggio Multimedia Platform) on Aprilia, Moto Guzzi and Vespa models in the near future. How cool is that?

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Video: Honda Spacy - Uptown Girl

Posted: 02 Aug 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Video clip
Honda logo
In a rather upbeat Honda TV commercial for the Spacy scooter, the ad uses the popular, but very old, song "Uptown Girl" to show a pretty girl loading and unloading a lot of stuff from her 110cc scooter's cargo bay.

The advertisement was made and shown in Indonesia. The cargo area is called "Helm In", meaning you can store your helmet under the seat.

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Odds That Your Royal Enfield Motorcycle Will Start On 1st Kickstart

Posted: 01 Aug 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Royal Enflied Kick Start 1st Go
The Boys & Girls at the Royal Enfield Club have calculated the odds that the Royal Enfield motorcycle will start with the first kickstart....

here's the statistics graphed out:

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