21-25 Motorcycle Facts
21. In Japanese, “Hayabusa” means peregrine falcon, so Suzuki named their “Hayabusa” because the peregrine falcon preys on blackbirds, which reflected the intent of the original Hayabusa to unseat the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird as the world’s fastest production motorcycle. – Source
22. Motorcycle chariot racing was a popular form of ‘sport’ in the 1920’s and 30’s. – Source
23. Helite makes airbag vests for motorcycle riders. – Source
24. There is a type of motorcycle racing in which the bikes have no brakes, drifting is used to control instead. – Source
25. Due to gasoline shortages in post-WW2 Japan, the first Honda motorcycles ran on turpentine. – Source
26-31 Motorcycle Facts
26. Harley-Davidson manufactured a motorcycle for WW2 that was copied from BMW. – Source
27. Honda designed a motorcycle that gets 130 mpg and even looks kinda decent, but for some reason named it the “Unicorn”. – Source
28. Honda made its first complete motorcycle in 1949. 15 years later it was the world’s largest producer of motorcycles. – Source
29. In 1950 Ducati made a 200 mpg motorcycle. – Source
30. Honda made a motorcycle engine based off of an existing V8 by cutting out the cylinder sides. The results were a V4 with oval pistons and 8 valves per cylinder. – Source
31. Wilkinson sword was one of the earliest manufacturers of motorcycles in 1903. – Source
5: Motorcyclists are almost 30X more likely to die than other motorists.
I think you’ll find they’re all equally as likely to die, everybody dies!
🙂
24. There is a type of motorcycle racing in which the bikes have no brakes, drifting is used to control instead.
I thought everyone knew about speedway, hardly a ‘Kickass’ fact.
10. In Indiana, Motorcycles at a red stop light only have to stop for 120 seconds, and then they can treat the stop light as if it were a stop sign and proceed through the intersection cautiously.
This only applies to lights controlled by traffic control signal. Fire to the fact that motorcycles are often too light to trigger the light.
This statute different apply to timed lights.
*doesn’t apply
#8. Not so sure on the reason for the decline. If someone is off to murder someone they are not going to be stopped by the fear of being pulled over with a male passenger on the way to do it.
More likely they ran out of people to murder by assassination.
1. Summary sounds biased for failure to mention the other motorcycles involved or the failure rate percentages.
i love riding motorbikes but i’m only a begginer what do i need to do if i want to get better at it.