motorbike Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/motorbike/ Mechanically-minded travel Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:12:45 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 In the USA, Nearly 20% of Motorcycle Owners are Women https://mechtraveller.com/2018/12/in-the-usa-nearly-20-of-motorcycle-owners-are-women/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/12/in-the-usa-nearly-20-of-motorcycle-owners-are-women/#respond Mon, 03 Dec 2018 13:12:45 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3933 Nearly one in five motorcycle owners is now female, compared with one in 10 less than a decade ago, and the data suggests that women could soon make up one quarter of owners, which would be a major shift in motorcycling demographics, according to the latest national survey by the Motorcycle Industry Council. Among all […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2018/12/in-the-usa-nearly-20-of-motorcycle-owners-are-women/feed/ 0 The Welbike https://mechtraveller.com/2018/03/the-welbike/ https://mechtraveller.com/2018/03/the-welbike/#respond Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:20:38 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=3134 This is an interesting standalone exhibit in one of the outbuildings on the Beaulieu estate (site of the National Motor Museum) in the New Forest. It’s a Welbike – a small, parachuteable, motorbike designed for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in WW2. As the blurb in the background says, it was designed at the SOE’s […]

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