What’s the best 125cc on the market?
What makes 125cc good choice ?
In our opinion, they’re the best bikes you can buy. They are cheap to service, easy to work on and most of all practical. Fun is our main concern and most 125cc motorcycles can provide fun thanks to their 2 stroke engine which allows them to be really fast.
Two Stroke you said?
They are the kings of 125cc, mainly because their speed and handling. They can do around 120 mph, but in reality, this is not an accurate figure, for a number of reasons.. Speedos usually read about 10% over, so that takes 12mph of that speed. Then there is rounding up or exaggeration, so you are looking at a maximum speed of about 95 – 105 mph true speed, which is highly possible on some bikes.
Aprilia RS125 ‘06
If you did some readings over the internet, or you local motorcycle-based magazine, you know that Aprilia RS125 and Cagiva Mito are leaders of 2 stroke.
Cagiva Mito 125cc newest model
Okay, what about Four stroke 125cc engines?
They’re popular, hell they are. They have great sounds, low consumation of oil, and a top speed of 65-85 mph. The most popular 4 stroke bikes are Yamaha YZF125 and Honda CBR125..
Yamaha YZF125
Honda CBR 125
Which one to buy?
So you have seen them, read about them and now the ultimate question is which one to buy. Tough one to answer. If you’re going for speed and fun (speed = fun after all) my choice would be either Aprilia RS 125 or Cagiva Mito. Both are pretty, fast and can provide you hours of fun, but not comfortable. If you’re up for nice sounds, and you’re not willing to spend half of your money for motorcycle oil plus much more lasting engine, chose either Yamaha YZF125 or Honda CBR125, although I’ll buy Yamaha.
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As always, the popular closing videos from youTube
35 Tips for your OWN safety!
You can ride safer by sticking to following tips for your OWN motorcycle safety.
1. Always assume that you and your motorcycle are totally invisible to other drivers.
2. Leave plenty of space in front and back and to the sides from all other vehicles.
3. Beware of motorists turning left in front of you at intersections.
4. Never drink or take drugs and try to ride a motorcycle.
it’s too late then..
5. Avoid riding at night, especially late Saturday night and early Sunday.
6. Beware of taking curves that you can’t see around. A parked truck or a patch of sand may be awaiting you.
7. Do not try to ‘get even’ with another rider or motorist by giving in to road rage.
8. If someone is tailgating you, either speed up to open more space or pull over and let them pass.
9. Take a motorcycle safety course to learn what to look for to avoid accidents.
10. Wear protective clothing and a helmet.
There is no New York No-Fault insurance available to motorcycle riders. This means that in the event of injury in a motorcycle accident, private health insurance must pay the bills. If the rider wins a lawsuit, these bills must usually be paid back to the health insurance carrier. If there is no health insurance available, the issue of medical bills and paying for medical care becomes complicated, indeed. Consult an experienced accident and personal injury attorney.
As a lawyer and rider who has held a motorcycle license for many years, I have some definite thoughts on this topic. But I’d like you to “cram down” some statistics about motorcycle safety, which relate to accidents and injuries, and which I find fascinating:
1. Approximately 3/4 of motorcycle accidents involve collision with another vehicle; most often a passenger automobile.
2. Approximately 1/4 of motorcycle accidents are single vehicle accidents involving the motorcycle colliding with the roadway or some fixed object in the environment.
3. Vehicle failure accounts for less than 3% of motorcycle accidents, and most of those are single vehicle accidents where control is lost due to a puncture flat.
4. In single vehicle accidents, motorcycle rider error is present as the cause about 2/3 of the time, with the typical error being a slideout and fall due to overbraking, or running wide on a curve due to excess speed or under-cornering.
5. Roadway defects (pavement ridges, potholes, etc.) are the accident cause in 2% of accidents; animal involvement causes 1% of accidents.
6. In multiple vehicle accidents, the driver of the other vehicle violates the motorcycle right-of-way and causes the accident 2/3 of the time.
7. Drivers inability to recognize motorcycles in traffice is the main source of motorcycle collisions. The driver of the other vehicle involved in collision with the motorcycle does not see the motorcycle before the collision, or does not see the motorcycle until too late to avoid the collision.
8. Deliberate hostile action by a motorist against a motorcycle rider is a rare accident cause.
9. The most frequent accident type is the motorcycle proceeding straight and the automobile making a left turn in front of the oncoming motorcycle.
10. Intersections are the most likely place for the motorcycle accident, with the other vehicle violating the motorcycle right-of-way, and often violating traffic controls.
11. Weather is not a factor in 98% of motorcycle accidents.
12. Most motorcycle accidents involve a short trip associated with shopping, errands, friends, entertainment or recreation, and the accident is likely to happen close to the place the trip began.
13. The view of the motorcycle or other vehicle involved in an accident is limited by glare or obstructed by other vehicles in almost 2 of multiple vehicle accidents.
14. Visibility of the motorcycle is a critical factor in multiple vehicle accidents, and accidents are significantly reduced by the use of motorcycle headlamps (on in daylight) and the wearing of high visibility yellow, orange or bright red jackets.
15. Fuel system leaks and spills are present after 62% of motorcycle crashes. This means that there is usually a fire hazard.
16. Motorcycle riders between the ages of 16 and 24 are significantly overrepresented in accidents; motorcycle riders between the ages of 30 and 50 are significantly underrepresented. Although the majority of accident-involved motorcycle riders are male (96%), female motorcycles riders are significantly overrepresented in accidents.
17. Motorcycle riders involved in accidents are essentially without training; 92% are self-taught or learned from family or friends. Motorcycle rider training experience reduces accident involvement and reduces injury in the event of accidents.
18. Almost 1/2 of fatal accidents show alcohol involvement.
19. Motorcycle riders in those accidents have difficulty avoiding the collision. Most riders overbrake and skid the rear wheel, and underbrake the front wheel, greatly reducing the ability to slow down and avoid the accident. In the presence of alcohol, the ability to countersteer and swerve are just about absent.
20. The typical motorcycle accident allows the motorcyclist just less than 2 seconds to avoid the collision.
21. Motorcycle modifications such as those associated with the semi-chopper or cafe racer are definitely overrepresented in accidents.
22. The likelihood of injury is extremely high in motorcycle accidents - 98% of multiple vehicle collisions and 96% of single vehicle accidents result in some kind of injury to the motorcycle rider; 45% result in more than a minor injury.
23. Half of the injuries to motorcycle riders are to the ankle-foot, lower leg, knee, and thigh-upper leg.
24. Crash bars are not an effective injury countermeasure; the reduction of injury to the ankle-foot is balanced by increase of injury to the thigh-upper leg, knee, and lower leg.
25. The use of heavy boots, jacket, gloves, etc., is effective in preventing or reducing abrasions and lacerations, which are frequent but rarely severe injuries.
26. Speed, alcohol involvement and motorcycle size increade the injury severity.
27. Seventy-three percent of accident-involved motorcycle riders use no eye protection, and it is likely that the wind on their unprotected eyes contributes to impairment of vision which delays hazard detection.
28. Approximately 50% of the motorcycle riders in traffic use safety helmets but only 40% wear helmets at the time of their accident.
29. Voluntary safety helmet use by accident-involved motorcycle riders was lowest for untrained, uneducated, young motorcycle riders on hot days and short trips.
30. The most deadly injuries to motorcycle accident victims are injuries to the chest and head.
31. The use of the safety helmet is the single critical factor in the prevention or reduction of head injury.
32. Safety helmet use does not decrease the riders ability to hear or see, and causes no fatigue or loss of attention; no element of accident causation is related to helmet use.
33. Helmeted riders and passengers showed significantly lower head and neck injury for all types of injury, at all levels of injury severity.
34. The increased coverage of the full facial coverage helmet increases protection, and significantly reduces face injuries.
35. There is no increase in neck injury by wearing a safety helmet; helmeted riders have fewer neck injuries than unhelmeted riders.
What is a Two-stroke engine?
In order to become efficient in tunning, you first need to know the basics. In this post I’ll demonstrate to you how a basic two-stroke engine works, found in most of lower class motorcycles..
Where is a 2-Stroke engine used?
It’s mostly used in chainsaws, lawn movers, jet skies, motorcycles etc.. Because it’s a small weighted engine and produces twice the power compared to four-stroke.
Two-stroke advantages:
They don’t have valves, which simplifies their construction and lowers the weight.
They can work in any orientation, which can be very important in devices like a chainsaw.
They fire once every revolution, while four-stroke fire once every other revolution.
How a Two-stroke engine works?
So as you can see in this picture, a mix of fuel and air is sucked from fuel/air inlet port into crankcase. Then the mixture gets to the combustion chamber through transfer port. Once the mixture is in c-chamber it eventually gets compressed by the movement of piston. When it’s compressed enough spark plug fires and mixture ignites. The resulting explosion drives the piston downward. As piston moves downward, the exhaust pipe is uncovered . It’s rather easy really, it’s not a rocket science!
Disadvantages of Two-stroke
Everything that’s ingenious in something, has to have some disadvantages, and the two-stroke engine is in no way different. So as you, hopefully, learnt from above, two-stroke engines are lighter and they produce twice the power.. But why don’t the trucks and cars use it then?
Well, as seems two-stroke engines don’t last nearly as long as four-stroke engines. The lack of a dedicated lubrication system means that the parts of a two-stroke engine wear a lot faster and two-stroke oil is expensive, and you need about 4 ounces of it per gallon of gas.
Yamaha YZF-R1 2008
In the winter of 1997, a new force arrived in the one-litre sportsbike world, the Yamaha YZF-R1. It was much more than just another Japanese motorcycle, it was an instant icon; a unique ‘no compromise’ machine for road riders ready to accept the challenge of the racetrack. A machine, like all other Yamaha R-derivations ever since, that came with racing in its DNA and the spirit of competition living in every component.
The al-new 2007 Yamaha YZF-R1 adds to the continually proven abilities of all previous versions with a host of new features, most a straight-line in evolution from the success of the MotoGP YZR-M1 machine that has delivered Yamaha the world championship in 2004 and 2005. The new R1 benefits from an entirely new cylinder head where four valves-per-cylinder combustion chambers were adopted. This has allowed more upright inlet and exhaust valves positioning, optimizing airflow into and out of 77 x 53.6mm cylinders, and thus helping
boost top end power to 180 PS@12,500rpm.
Even then, an extra 9hp is available, thanks to the effect of the redesigned pressurized air intake system that comes into its own at higher speeds. Titanium inlet valves have been adopted, with all the valves in the engine now operated by lightweight VX Alloy valve
Key features:
- Light, powerful and packed with trickle-down MotoGP technology, the YZF-R1 is the most advanced Open-class production motorcycle ever built.
- The YZF-R1 uses the YCC-T fly-by-wire throttle system for flawless response under all conditions.
- Inline four-cylinder engine is the most powerful, tractable R1 powerplant ever, thanks partially to the world’s first electronic variable-length intake funnel system.
- Slipper-type back torque-limiting clutch greatly facilitates braking/downshifting from high speed.
- Aluminum Deltabox frame and swingarm take Open-class handling to the next performance level.
- Six-piston radial-mount front brake calipers and 310mm discs generate the kind of braking power a bike like the R1 requires.
Engine:
- Short-stroke 998cc DOHC, 16-valve, liquid-cooled inline four-cylinder engine produces more tractable power than ever.
- Yamaha Chip Control Throttle controls a 32-bit ECU fuel injection system for super-responsive, smooth, instantaneous power delivery.
- Yamaha Chip Control Intake electronically adjusts intake funnel length between either 65 or 140mm for an amazingly broad, smooth powerband.
- Two-piece ergonomically designed fuel tank carries fuel in the rear section, for good centralization of mass, while the front half contains a Ram-Air-fed airbox for increased power.
- Lay-down-design cylinder head optimizes weight distribution, straightens intake tracts for improved cylinder filling and allows frame to pass over instead of around the engine for great strength and a narrow chassis.
- Closed-deck cylinder block increases strength and allows a narrow engine in spite of big, 77mm bores.
- Narrow-angle four-valve combustion chambers produce a highly efficient 12.7:1 compression ratio; 31mm titanium intake valves and 25mm exhausts controlled by new, high-lift cams flow plenty of air.
- Light and strong nutless connecting rods with fractured big ends produce a quick-revving engine with excellent high-rpm durability.
- High silicon-content ceramic-composite cylinder sleeves ensure great heat dissipation for consistent power delivery and reduced friction.
- Close-ratio six-speed gearbox with triangulated shaft layout for great strength, compactness, and quicker acceleration.
- Ramp-type slipper clutch makes braking from speed into tight corners while downshifting smoother and therefore faster.
- Titanium underseat exhaust system (with stainless steel midpipe and catalyst) provides excellent cornering clearance and a broad, seamless powerband.
- 13-percent greater radiator capacity and an aluminum liquid-cooled oil cooler maintain stable operating temperature.
- Direct ignition coils, dual-electrode spark plugs and high-output magneto deliver extremely accurate, reliable firing.
- AC generator behind cylinder block produces a narrow engine with excellent cornering clearance.
Light, powerful and packed with trickle-down MotoGP technology, the YZF-R1 is the most advanced Open-class production motorcycle ever built.
Everything put together this bike will cost you an enormous $11,699.00 USD.. But again look at videos below and tell me that you don’t want this baby 
MTT Superbike 2007
Have you ever dreamed of ridding the fastest bike in the world, but then you released you’re only 14 or 16 (UK) and that you’re only allowed to ride a motor bike of 50cc ?? Well if you also happen to own half of Miami or your father is a former russian gangster, you can ride! You can be the fastest!
With a top speed of over 250 mph, the MTT Turbine Superbike is the fastest street-legal production bike in the world…
I present you Marine Turbine Technologies Superbike. Powered by Rolls Royce-Allison gas turbine engine , the Turbine SUPERBIKE has demonstrated over 320hp and 425-ft/lbs of torque on the Dyne Jet 200 and has been clocked at a record breaking 227 Mph/H.
Engine: Rolls Royce Allison, 250 series gas turbine
Power: 320-hp @ 52,000-rpm, (286-hp @ rear wheel)
Torque: 425-ft/lbs @ 2,000-rpm
Top speed: 402.3 km/h (250.0 mph)
Power/weight ratio: 1.4110 HP/kg
Transmission: 2-speed, automatic
Lubrication: dry-sump/3.5-gts turbine oil
Frame: aluminium alloy
The only…real problem… Price: $175, 000
