Showing posts with label Motorcycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motorcycle. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Avoid High Gas Prices

The cost of gas is more now than it has ever been. Many are avoiding high gas prices by turning to eco-friendly modes of transportation such as: bicycles, hybrid cars, scooters, mopeds and motorcycles.

As more people resort to scooters, they start finding more reasons to use them,” said Drew Horn, owner of DrowSports Ruckus & Yamaha Zuma 125 parts distributor. “They’re practical, easy to park and get great gas mileage.

Scooters are a notch below mopeds in terms of speed. They aren’t going to go more than 20 miles per hour with the electric models. Still, you can use them to get around faster and easier than using a regular bicycle and you can also customize them with Ruckus Kickstands and other cosmetic accessories. They are great if you live in a small area where things are relatively close. You may not have public transportation available so this can help.

The laws are different when it comes to who can legally operate a scooter. it also depends on the type scooter. In some areas, children as young as 12 years of age are able to ride a scooter. In other places though you must be the same age as required to legally operate a vehicle and have a valid driver’s license.

Honda Ruckus Scooters have a small gas tank on the side of it that holds up to 1.3 gallons of gas. Many scooters have a pull start mechanism that you need to engage before you can get the fuel to run through the system and give you the necessary power to move about says Ruckus parts designer.

Some of the more expensive scooters look like mopeds but they operate with the use of a battery and electricity. These models may or may not use gas depending on which model you select. Those that do require the use of gas aren’t going to consume very much of it though at any given time.

According to ruckus parts designer, Scooters mean different things to different people. Some people will make use of a scooter to drive to their place of employment every day while others will make use of it for quick trips to the neighborhood grocery store or for other local errands. And then there are some people that will purchase one merely because they are fun to drive.

Yamaha Motorcycles

Yamaha Motor Company Limited is a Japanese motorized vehicle producing company. Yahama Motor is part of the Yamaha Corporation and its headquarter is located in Iwata, Shizuoka. Along with expanding Yamaha Corporation into the world's biggest piano maker, then Yamaha CEO Genichi Kawakami took Yamaha into the field of motorized vehicles on July 1, 1955.

The company's intensive research into metal alloys for use in acoustic pianos had given Yamaha wide knowledge of the making of lightweight, yet sturdy and reliable metal constructions. This knowledge was easily applied to the making of metal frames and motor parts for motorcycles. It produces motorcycles, all terrain vehicles, boats, snowmobiles, outboard motors, and personal

Yamaha has a long racing heritage where it has had its machines and team win many different competitions in many different areas, particularly in motorcycle racing. Yamaha has had great success with riders such as Giacomo Agostini, Bob Hannah, Heikki Mikkola, Kenny Roberts, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey, Jeremy McGrath, Stefan Merriman, Chad Reed, Valentino Rossi, James Stewart and currently Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies.

They won the supercross championship two years in a row (2008 and 2009) with the YZ 450F (One with Chad Reed, and the other with James Stewart). Yamaha has won a total of 36 World Championships, including 3 in MotoGP and 9 in the preceding 500cc 2-stroke class, and 1 in World Superbike.

Yamaha created the innovations which lead to the modern motocross bike, as they were the first to build a production monoshock motocross bike (1975 for 250 and 400, 1976 for 125) and one of the first to have a water cooled motocross production bike (1977 in works bikes, 1981 in off the shelf bikes).

Since 1962, Yamaha produced production road racing grand prix motorcycles that any licensed road racer could purchase. In 1970, non-factory privateer teams dominated the 250cc World Championship with Great Britain's Rodney Gould winning the title on a Yamaha TD2.

 
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