The Vespa LX150 i.e., a classic-design scooter which clearly was made to please the eyes. But Vespa didn't stop with just the visual aspect of the LX150 i.e., it is powered by a single-cylinder, four-stroke, SOHC 2-valve, 150cc engine with a specially designed ram-air with sound proof cover and integrated secondary air system. The engine produces about 12 horsepower at 8,000 rpm with 11.8 Nm torque at 6.250 rpm, what is pretty powerful for a scooter like the Vespa LX150 i.e..

For the chassis of the LX150 i.e., Vespa has created a load-bearing steel frame with welded structural supports. The front suspension is a single arm with helical spring and dual effect hydraulic single shock absorber, for the rear a helical spring with adjustable four-position pre-load and dual effect hydraulic single shock absorber. With an overall length of 1801mm and 740mm width, a seat height of 785mm and wheelbase of 1280mm the Vespa LX150 i.e. is a exciting scooter to ride in busy city traffic, fast, maneuverable in tight spaces, has a controlled ride and the suspension soaks up bumps well, and with its powerful brakes making it very stoppable... The Vespa LX150 i.e. has also a very comfortable seat and riding postion.

When your brake pads start to lose a little bite, or make some noise, it's often time for brake servicing, we will tell a trick to breathe new life into your brake pads.

Check that the brake pads are still within serviceable limits and the brake fluid levels are okay. Check disc rotors for abnormal wear and grooving. If any is evident, the rotor can often be machined rather than replaced.

Remove the disc caliper from the motorcycle, if necessary, and remove the brake pads from the caliper. Check the surface of the pad for any abnormal wear or glazing and run your finger around the edge to identify ridges that can often build up over time.

Put a piece of light wet-and-dry paper on a hard surface and move the pad evenly back and forth to remove glazing. Be careful to hold the brake pad very flat so as not to create an uneven finish. Run the wet-and-dry paper softly around the edge of the brake pad material to remove any high points and rough sections. Make sure that you don't create a taper that will reduce your pad contact area.

No. No, we're not turning into a Honda Scoopy-i cult site or Scoopy-i modify madness or any other variation now detectable around the Honda Scoopy-i scooter. But this is indeed about a cute little 110cc scooter with a modern fuel-injection system and as Eco-friendly as a four-stroke combustion engine can be. It's not as crazy as it sounds: don't click away!

The idea for trying out the Honda Scoopy-i came to me when I was riding my regular 1000cc motorcycle. It was a wet and windy morning, complete with the usual traffic jams, and I realized that an 1000cc sportsbike was just not the best thing to be on in that sort of weather. I didn't get out of second gear and I doubt if I used a quarter of the motorcycle's power or revs. Truly, ask yourself, what's the point?

If I take the most direct route from house to office, it's about 7 kilometer. To be honest 7 kilometer on a 110cc Honda Scoopy-i? That might be entertaining. Or certainly less stressful than riding a big bike loaded with horsepower which I wouldn't use. I'm not a big fan of public transport, I cannot read Thai so have often no clue where a Song Thaew (pickup car which functions as bus) is going to, so I need a daily fix of 'powered two-wheeler', no matter what form it takes. A raining season car hack was always an option, but what's the sense of riding an extra 10 kilometer and a hour in the traffic jam if I can do it so much faster on a two-wheeler. So, I thought, why not try a scooter and join the thousands of untouchables of the Thai roads, those riders who hardly need to stop for anything on the road.

The Fiat Yamaha Team gained their first double podium since Laguna Seca today, when Jorge Lorenzo finished second and Valentino Rossi third behind Dani Pedrosa at Misano. The day was overshadowed however by the tragic news that Japanese rider Shoya Tomizawa had passed away following an accident in the Moto2 race. Yamaha and Motorcycle Thailand would like to express the deepest condolences to his family, friends and team.

Lorenzo lost one place at the start and dropped to third but before the first lap was over he had got back past Casey Stoner to retake second position. Despite pushing hard in the early stages, it was soon clear that the championship leader was not able to run the same pace as Pedrosa today and he was forced to settle for an uneventful ride to second, importantly taking another 20 points for his title challenge and continuing his flawless record of a podium in every race this season.

Italian hero Rossi was hopeful of a return to the podium and he made a good start, keeping his fourth position and holding on to the leaders over the first few laps. He gradually began to close down Casey Stoner and made the pass stick on his second try, on lap eleven of 28. In the latter part of the race he came under pressure from fellow countryman Andrea Dovizioso but he was able to hold him off, putting in his fastest lap of the race three laps from the end and coming home just over a second behind his team-mate.

The latest in a line of great British motorcycles, the Triumph Tiger 1050 SE didn't disappoint. The kind of motorcycle you could ride for hundreds of Thai highway kilometers and still have energy left for a few rural road blast at the end of it. The Triumph Tiger 1050 engine is as smooth as the rest of the ride. Creamy torque from way down the rev range make for lazy gear changes or monstrous wheelies depending on your inclination and mechanical sympathy.

The terrific 1050cc inline three-cylinder engine has been revised slightly by Triumph to suit the Tiger's needs. Thai emission compliant, the Triumph Tiger 1050 SE has a taller sixth gear ratio to make the engine more relaxed on long journeys, the latest generation of Keihin engine management software and hardware and extensive noise reduction research to keep the Tiger's growl to a kitty purr. Improved engine efficiency has seen fuel consumption figures down 30 percent compared to the old 955cc Triumph Tiger.

The lightweight twin spar aluminum frame is light years ahead of the old steel frame that it replaces. The geometry of the Triumph Tiger 1050 has changed to accommodate a sportier ride. Wheelbase is 5mm shorter at 1,510mm, rake has been made sharper at 23.2 degree, although the trail figures are almost the same. The Triumph Tiger 1050 SE has lost a few kilos in the transformation too, the new Triumph Tiger 1050 SE hits the scales at a 208 kilo. The simple swingarm has been replaced by a new braced cast aluminum piece that mimics that of the Daytona 675.

This morning on the pit-lane at Misano, Yamaha Motor Racing was presented by Cer.To, the Piedmontese agency, with the prestigious "Environmental Management System" certificate, a milestone in the process undertaken by Yamaha Motor Racing in its compliance with the UNI EN ISO 14001 standard. The EMS certificate shows the continued improvement of Yamaha Motor Racing's activities and the ongoing research into materials and instruments to achieve outstanding technical results, along with remarkable environmental performances. It confirms the importance given to environmental matters since 1990, when the Yamaha Motor Company group's environmental activities started, concentrating on the pursuit and sharing of unyielding values; a passion for motors as well as a respect for people and the environment.

This morning the Fiat Yamaha Team succeeded in achieving another goal in becoming the first MotoGP Team to obtain the "Environmental Management System" certificate. No other team before has managed to achieve this highest level of competitiveness and expertise in terms of environmental protection. The success of Yamaha Motor Racing's achievement is another important milestone for Yamaha Motor Company's worldwide activities reflecting the Group's sensitivity to environmental issues through Yamaha's Corporate Social Responsibility Program.

More than three months after my accident, wheel-spin in a high-speed corner, I've finally left the hospital and now at a transitional living facility. Here the focus is on rehabilitation and learning how to cope with my disability on an everyday basis. The expected stay is two or three months, so I've still got some work to do, but this is the last stage of my journey. Overall, it's going well so far. One of the setbacks I had in the hospital was a nasty bed sore, which required surgery and a three-week stay flat on my back in a special sand-filled bad. That gave me lots of time to think about my situation and how I ended up here. It was either that or count the holes in the ceiling tiles.

Over the years I've adopted an almost paranoid respect of riding safely, especially on the street. It started when we first moved to Bangkok and didn't have a car: Any crash and resultant injury that kept me from riding would be the end of my daily transportation, including getting to work. And there was no way I was going to get in an accident with my wife as precious cargo, as she often was. I actually didn't have a lot of street riding experience when I first started at to work in Thailand, and luckily stayed out of trouble right up until my current predicament.

Getting a flat tire in an automobile is aggravating enough. But on motorcycles, flat tires are a lot scarier, more troublesome to repair and can easily lead to serious harm for the motorcycle's operator. No wonder riders dread them so much.

Rhino Tire, a New York-based company, with a distributor in Singapore is out to assuage those fears with a patented 'Rhinotire' tire treatment claimed to seal punctures immediately after they occur. The treatment involves a special adhesive polymer gel that is first sprayed and then baked on all around the inner circumference of the tire. The gel remains tacky after application so it can migrate into and seal any puncture holes.

Rhino Tire will either sell you brand-new tires of most popular brands and sizes that have already been treated or apply the gel to your tires.

A video released by Rhino Tire in which a Honda CBR1000RR is repeatedly ridden over a nail-infested wooden plant and shows no apparent air leakage afterward.

The all-new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R race bike has been unveiled to the international press at the Nürburgring racetrack, in advance of the full launch of the production machine in early October. The new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R race bike has been eagerly anticipated by everyone involved in the Superbike racing project for a while now and therefore the Kawasaki Superbike Racing Team are extremely keen to get started with the new Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R.

Steve Guttridge, the Race Planning Manager from Kawasaki Motors Europe, said of the new bike and the timing of the ‘sneak preview’ of the racebike version of the Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R, “The new race bike has been eagerly anticipated by everyone involved in the Superbike racing project for a while now. The PBM team have evolved and restructured continuously in order to be in a position to utilize the new bike's potential to the maximum next season. As you can imagine the Paul Bird team are ultra keen to get started with it and so who better than the team itself to help us show the first edition of the race version of it here at the Nürburgring?”

Ichiro Yoda, the Kawasaki Project Director, confirmed that racing is at the heart of the new machine’s DNA. “We have started development this bike with slick tyres and racing spec engine. This is a quite different procedure than previous models.”

Sometimes I ride like a fool. I do it on purpose. I know I'm riding like a bitch – usual during my daily commute – and I don't care. I just laugh and carry on. Before I go on any further I should define 'bitch'. I ride to annoy cars basically. I ride to make sure that cars know I'm on the road with them and I make sure that they know how much 'better' a motorcycle is than the proxy metal box they're sat in is.

I hope – perhaps misguidedly – that they'll realize that being sat in a car is an epic queue of rush hour, traffic is dumb. I ride to make them jump, I ride to get them to think 'Jesus! Where did he come from ?!' Obviously I take greater delight in 'buzzing' drivers using their mobile phones, since it seems to increase the surprise factor. Anyone tried just staring at a driver stuck in a queue of traffic while they're on the phone? That's a laugh as well – and iridium visor for that 'Robocop look increasingly uneasy.