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February 2014
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Toronto Motorcycle Show
Moving both the location and date of show to the Direct Energy Centre throughout the weekend of February 21-23, 2014.
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Yamaha Motor Canada is the exclusive distributor of Shark Helmets in Canada. What makes the difference? SHARK designs its helmets to exceed all current helmet safety standards, including exceeding DOT and ECE 22-05 safety standards. TRENDING
Fastest Growing Trend
Women riders are the fastest-growing demographic in the motorcycle world. In 2011, the estimated number of female motorcyclists increased 67%, and the estimated number of female motorcycle owners increased 37%. One in four riders are female. Women’s only motorcycle clubs are springing up around the country. AROUND THE WORLD
Polaris Industries’ Fourth-Quarter Earnings Polaris Industries cruised slowly past both revenue and earnings estimates when it released its fourth-quarter and full-year 2013 results before the market open today. Shares, however, opened down about 6% before partially recovering to end the day down 2.5%, as the company issued 2014 revenue and earnings forecasts.
Quote of the Month “Saddlebags can never hold everything you want, but they CAN hold everything you need.”
Courtesy BMW
BMW’s S1000R is a Superbike for the Road BMW’s S1000RR, for those motorcyclists who have lived in a cave these last five years, is the fastest superbike on the planet. Even more astounding is that it has held the crown since 2009, an eon in a segment when the reign at the top of the horsepower heap is usually measured in months, not years. It achieves its horsepower superiority by revving higher and harder than any superbike previous. Where most of its big bore competition sign off at 12,000 or so rpm, the
S1000RR keeps revving higher on its way to an incredible 13,000rpm, 197hp power peak. To sample — preferably on a racetrack – that last extra kick of high-speed in the top of fifth or sixth gear is to know both elation and fear. The mechanics behind all that highspeed horsepower are Formula One derived, BMW Motorrad borrowing some nous from car-side and developing a hugely oversquare 80mm x 49.7mm design that boasts a sky-high 13.0:1 compression ratio
and some F1-style camshaft finger followers rather than motorcycling’s more traditional direct-to-bucket valve actuation system. Techno gobbledygook or not, virtually everything about the S1000 engine was designed so it could spin as fast as possible and produce more power than the rest of the superbike field (BMW has yet to wear the WSBK crown, but the S1000RR instantly transformed the formerly sleepy manufacturer of sport-tourers into a superSee Pg. 3 bike powerhouse).
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