Archive : Technology

With Yamaha continuing to be a major competitor in the Indian sporty bikes segment, the latest upgrade to the R15 series seems to be Yoshimura exhausts. Yoshimura are Japanese based exhausts manufacturers who initially started off making engines. But soon their exhaust parts sales picked up and they went on to become fully-fledged exhaust systems manufacturers and have now become a major brand and [...]

The simplest way to define a tubeless tire is a tire lacking a tube in it. Most of the bikes in India these days boast of tubeless tires. I’m not sure how many of us ever thought of what makes the tubeless tire work without a tube. In a tubeless tire the tire itself serves the purpose of a traditional tube by containing the air within it. This is achieved by a special halobutyl lining on the inner [...]

Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder Bill Gates along with Sun Microsystems co-founder Vinod Khosla, has invested £23.5 million into a company by the name EcoMotors. The investment by the two IT honchos is to further the development of EcoMotors Opposed-Piston Opposed-Cylinder (OPOC) two-stroke engine. Bill Gates, Microsoft Chairman and Co-Founder - EcoMotors has developed a promising technology that [...]

Image for representation purpose only. Should not be confused with the description below. A duo of Indian scientists have brought out a preliminary virtual design of a new motorcycle engine, which runs purely on compressed air. The duo’s design has already been elaborately described in a paper in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy. Their engine design consists of a small air turbine, [...]

Pirelli has launched a new range of high performance bike tyres dubbed the Diablo Rosso Corsa.  These high performance tyres can be used on a wide range of high end bikes and have been specially developed for them. To commemorate the launch of these tyres, Pirelli has also announced the launch of the world’s first motorcycle tyre customization service. Using this service, one can apply his name, [...]