Bike RPM Bike Industry News and Reviews

4Jan/110

Honda To Sell Used Bikes

Honda’s two-wheeler division is planning to setup pre-owned business of its own in the country. The company has started a trial revision at select dealerships in Bangalore, Mumbai and Ahmedabad. These pre-owned dealerships will be setup separately from its existing dealerships and will challenge Hero Honda Sure (Hero Honda’s used two-wheeler business).

Other most popular Honda bikes are: Active, Active Deluxe, CB Shine and CB Twister. However Hero Honda Sure deals with exchange of old vehicle with a new Hero Honda bike, whereas Honda will deal directly with the sale and purchase of Honda motorcycles and scooters with customers. There will be no compulsion of exchange involved in the process.

30Dec/100

AMG to sponsor Ducati MotoGP team

Ducati Motors, Italian two wheeler manufacturer which known for its superclass bikes, has collaborated with AMG, as a result AMG will sponsor Ducati MotoGP team and both the partners will start joint marketing activities. AMG is the German popular four wheeler maker and always participates in the four wheeler race and now ready to enter in world famous bike race, MotoGP. Now AMG is the partner of Ducati and will sponsor Ducati MotoGP team. Now the company will organise all the activities with AMG. It is expected that Ducati Diavel will participate in MotoGP 2011 race.

The company has been participating in this race for many year and won several titles including World Superbike Championship and 2007 MotoGP season. Both the companies are very exciting to work together and ready to participate in MotoGP 2011 race. This is not the first tie-up of a car maker with, before it Fiat has tied-up with Yamaha Motors for MotoGP race. Ducati has recently announced to launch Ducati Diavel in India along with its super bike series 848 Evo and 1198SP. At present, Ducati India in its portfolio includes Ducati Superbike, Ducati Streetfighter, Ducati Sports Classic and Ducati Hypermotard bikes series.

30Dec/100

BMW to provide Free Satellite Radio

BMW Motorrad the world most popular super bike manufacturer and subsidiary of BMW Motors is going to make new experiment in its 2011 BMW Touring bikes in international market. The company is to provide Free Satellite Radio in all the 2011 models of Touring bikes. BMW's three most popular series such as R, and K bikes like R 1200 RT, K 1600 GT, and K 1600 GTL which are the touring motorcycles will be equipped with this features. The company has tied-up with German popular Radio named SIRIUS XM Radio. The production service will be started from January 2011. According to this tie-up, the SIRIUS Radio pack will have all the equipments and components to fit in the bikes.

The SIRIUS XM Radio to provide its services in BMW Motorcycle for one year, as per this tie-up. Now the rider will enjoy 135 channels and can listen latest sports commentary, News, Talk, entertainment and commercial free music service. The company might launch the same services in India as it is going to launch a few BMW bike in India. The BMW's coming bike are BMW K1300s, BMW S 1000RR, BMW R1200GS, BMW K 1600 GT and BMW K 1300 GT.

 

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