Kamis, 31 Desember 2009

2010 - Triumph Thruxton SE debuts Cafe Racer Motorcycles

2010 - Triumph Thruxton SE debuts Cafe Racer Motorcycles
Triumph Motorcycles introduces the special cafe racer edition coming Thruxton sports pioneer cycling

Triumph has launched a special edition of the racing-style café that offers Thruxton even sportier look to the classic British design.


2010 - Triumph Thruxton SE debuts Cafe Racer Motorcycles
2010 SE Thruxton amazing features powder-coated red frame and Crystal White bodywork with a red line, color-matched fly screen and the engine case collapsed. New Crystal White metallic paint containing a high content of paint that produces a luxurious, and create a striking contrast with the red frame.
The Triumph Thruxton modern design features and performance combined with a distinctive retro design. Fuel injection 865cc parallel twin is the most powerful of Triumph's "Modern Classics" range, delivering 68 horsepower at 7400 rpm and peak torque of 51 ft / lbs at 5800 rpm. Machine shares the same 360-degree firing interval as the Bonneville, but also features hot camshaft profile, compression ratio of 9.2:1 and megaphone style exhaust pipes.
Sporty, low-rise bar, 18-inch spoked wheels, megaphone-style exhaust pipe, and race-inspired lines from the tank to the tail evoke memories of the Ace Café and racing in the streets.
Thruxton SE will be available at authorized Triumph dealers across North America in the spring of 2010. Price still to be determined, but the SE model will come at a small premium over the standard Thruxton.


Selasa, 22 Desember 2009

Aston Martin V12 Vantage


Aston Martin V12 Vantage
Aston Martin V12 Vantage


We are actual aflame Aston Martin already afresh will participate in Canary Wharf London Motorexpo and we are appreciative to affectation them and DBS V12 Vantage Volante aboriginal time in advanced of the British public, "said Managing Director Graeme Carver Motorexpo.

Machines that accept been upgraded to be the capital differentiator Vantage with its antecedent versions. V8 agent admeasurement is not changed. Only, the centralized anatomy at the advanced of the apparatus becomes beyond revised. So is the accession of anchor cooling arrangement and twin-water assimilation system.

The result, a monster 6.0-liter V12 able of spitting out adeptness in 6500 dk 510 rpm. The adeptness to access the best dispatch of 305 km per hour. In anchored conditions, the monster Dispatch 0-100 km / h in 4.2 seconds.

In accession to the alarming power, assembly Aston Martin V12 Vantage fabricated limited. Vehicles are alone produced one thousand units to ensure exclusivity users.

From the outside, V12 Vantage unsightly. The weight of the agent is absolutely heavy, 100 kg. To get around, anchored superringan abstracts and components. That includes carbon cilia brakes, 19-inch aluminum rim, additionally the anatomy of aluminum, magnesium alloy, and composites. Result, the V12 Vantage is alone 50 kg added than the V8 version.

Completing a alternation of DBS, New Volante is congenital with the appearance of the latest sports car, which offers a archetypal of an accessible roof and offers a adequate active experience. Volante's name agency a agent that sped like a light,

and activating performance, which is allotment of the appearance of this DBS Volante.

From the alpha of its development, Volante dirancangkan to chase the contour of a auto archetypal DBS, Volante area some actual from motorsport and aerospace industries, such as the bonnet, advanced wings, cossack lid fabricated of carbon fiber, which helps abate all-embracing agent weight.

Pengeremannya system, DBS Volante is already application carbon ceramics brakes. Roof top designs fabricated with motorize arrangement that can accessible and abutting the roof top of motorize, in aloof 14 seconds, with the blow of a button.

Behind the hood, Aston Martin DBS application the 6.0-liter agent V12 blazon able of bearing adeptness for 510 HP with a best torque of 570 Nm. While top speednya can ability 307 kilometers per hour and to biking from 0-100 kilometers per hour takes alone 4.3 seconds.

For the transmission, Volante girboks comes with a chiral manual and 6 dispatch automated chiral dispatch touchtronik 6. DBS Volante, which is a alternation of Aston Martin convertible to a 95-16 in this year, advised to board 4 people, able with a ample block and is acceptable for the young. As a agency of entertainment, DBS Volante is able with a arrangement of in-car ball BeoSound DBS Bang & Olufsens achievement and 13 speakers as accepted equipment.

Concept Car Aston Martin 600 HP V12

Concept Car Aston Martin 600 HP V12









Aston Martin Unveils New Performance Concept Car

At the official opening of Aston Martin's first ever dedicated design centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire, on Tuesday 11 December, Dr Ulrich Bez, Chief Executive Officer, thrilled an audience of more than seven hundred VIP guests with a surprise unveiling of a stunning new 600bhp performance concept car; the V12 Vantage RS.

The V12 Vantage RS concept is based on Aston Martin's critically acclaimed V8 Vantage coupe, but the company's design and engineering team have fully exploited the design flexibility of their unique VH architecture and the motor sport development of their 6.0 litre V12 engine to create a dramatic and production feasible concept car focussed on extreme performance and dynamics.

In a speech to the assembled guests, Ulrich Bez said: "Over the last five years, we have established a reputation for presenting fully functional, feasible concept cars, and the V12 Vantage RS is no exception. We will listen with interest to feedback on this concept and, as ever, if there is sufficient demand then we will seriously consider a low volume production run in the near future with a price that will reflect the exclusivity of the car.

"With our dedicated production facilities, our own engine plant, our own unique vehicle architecture and now a dedicated design studio, we have the ideal framework to bring new models such as this to market and to further establish Aston Martin as the ultimate independent luxury sports car company."

Although the 600bhp power output of the V12 Vantage RS concept will be the focus of attention, just as significant is the level of weight reduction achieved by Aston Martin's engineering team. With a kerb weight of less than 1600kg, the RS concept underlines Aston Martin's continued commitment to intelligent use of materials and weight reduction as a means of achieving improved efficiency and performance. In common with the recently launched DBS, the bonnet and trunk lid are moulded in carbon fibre and the concept also adopts motor sport-inspired carbon ceramic brake discs.

The subtly aggressive exterior appearance is driven by function. The dramatic bonnet louvres extract air from the fully ducted cooling pack and the trunk lid features a deployable spoiler that rises automatically at high speeds to increase rear down force. The front bumper features cooling ducts for the carbon ceramic brakes and a carbon fibre splitter to balance down force.

Director of Design, Marek Reichman, commented: "Much of Aston Martin's recent success has come from the ability of our designers and engineers to work hand-in-hand to optimise form and function. Our new dedicated design centre will take this process to a new level and I am delighted that the V12 Vantage RS is the first car to stand on the turntable in the studio."

The 600bhp 6.0 litre engine featured in the V12 Vantage RS concept has benefited directly from the race development of this acclaimed power unit. It features a dry sump lubrication system, tuned length exhaust manifolds, forged pistons and steel con-rods, revised lift and duration camshafts and modified cylinder heads. Peak power is achieved at 6250rpm and peak torque of 690Nm is at 5000rpm.

With a power-to-weight ratio of over 375bhp per ton, the V12 Vantage RS concept is the fastest accelerating road car ever built by the company, capable of reaching 62mph (100km/h) from rest in 4.0 seconds and 100mph (160km/h) in just 8.5 seconds.

The unveiling of the Aston Martin V12 Vantage RS concept concludes a remarkable year of new product announcements for the British manufacturer. In the last twelve months the company has launched two of the most eagerly anticipated sports cars of the year - the DBS and Vantage Roadster - and announced details of the DB9 LM and V8 Vantage N400 special editions which celebrate the company's racing successes at Le Mans and the N?rburgring. All of these models now join the award-winning V8 Vantage, DB9 and DB9 Volante models in production at the company's Gaydon headquarters.

Modification Aston Martin Jet 2


Modification Aston Martin Jet 2
Modification Aston Martin Jet 2


A one off Bertone abstraction developed from the Aston Martin V12 Vanquish, the Bertone advised Aston Martin Jet 2 abstraction had the aforementioned automated lay out and floorpan anatomy as the donor car, about the caster abject is diffuse by 210 mm to acquiesce for a 2+2 basement configuration.

Exterior administration of the Jet 2 is mixed, abreast Aston Martin up front, but with a abundant adapted rear end. In adjustment to absorb the rear seats the bottle roof charcoal aerial the breadth of the car afore angled bottomward into the rear window and rear ablaze surround.

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Rabu, 21 Oktober 2009

Photos of My Workshop

Really, it's more of a cave that sort of passes for a garage. We rent a small cottage on a lot with two other houses, a fairly common situation in Southern California. The property is on a hill and the garages for all three places were added as an afterthought sometime in about the 1930s or 1940s. They were sort of carved out from beneath the property and have never been finished or had electricity run to them, so they're pretty primitive. This space is exactly big enough for one car, but I've got five assembled bikes (and three disassembled, presently) in there. I've been working on bikes down there for about a year and finally this summer got around to organizing a workshop of sorts. I cleaned it up yesterday after finishing dismantling the hub donor bike, and though it looked about as good as it was ever likely to, so I took some photos.