Motorcycles

Motorcycles

Any two-wheeled motor vehicle that can carry either one or two passengers.

Industry: Automotive

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Vehicle identification number (VIN)

Automotive; Motorcycles

VIN It's much the same as the VIN used to identify a car. Each manufacturer seems to have a different coding system for the VIN placed on their bikes. The owner's manual or service manual should ...

Metric Cruiser is a general category of bikes including Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, and Suzuki as opposed to American bikes such as Harley-Davidson and Indian. The American bikes tend to use the English ...

Wannabee

Automotive; Motorcycles

A Wannabee is someone who tries obsessively to emulate a person, profession, or activity, e.g., "There are a lot of motorcycle wannabees in the world today. Some wannabee bikers actually become ...

Motocross

Automotive; Motorcycles

Motocross is an outdoor dirtbike competition using long courses over basically natural terrain with some manmade jumps. It can be a family sport with mom and dad assisting their young boys and girls ...

Wheelie

Automotive; Motorcycles

A wheelie is a motorcycle manoeuvre performed by a skilled rider to raise the front wheel off the ground and ride only on the rear wheel.

Motorcycle

Automotive; Motorcycles

Motorcycles are 2-wheel vehicles patterned after bicycles but with engines and much heavier frames. Early motorcycles were actually bicycles fitted with small internal combustion engines. There was a ...