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From 0 to 252 km/h at 6,0542 seconds. It is not magic, it is a motorcycle that works with water

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When one looks for the benefits of a motorcycle or a car, it is usual to meet the term “Mile room”. In Spain we are perhaps more familiar with the figure from 0 to 100 km/ho how long it takes to travel a kilometer from standing. However, the mile room, those 402 meters is the usual measure that is taken as a finish line in the Drag Races. Yes, the Acceleration races So famous in the United States in which we see artifacts of all kinds to launch from standing at impossible speeds and, in some cases, let out a parachute once the finish line has passed. As with cars, in the world of motorcycling it is also competed in these particular races. The most striking use modified motorcycles that, such as You can see in this videothey have a huge distance between wheel and wheel and gigantic tires. The objective: maximum traction and aerodynamics to achieve the highest speed in the shortest possible time. If this does not seem striking enough, you still have to meet Graham Sykes, a pilot who has managed to cover the 402 meters of the mile room in six seconds reaching a tip of 252 km/h. Figures that become difficult to assimilate and impossible to believe for a steam motorcycle. That? At 252 km/h with water as fuel “We did the first 18 meters in 0.73 seconds, 100 meters in 1.99, 201 meters at 3.2 and 402 meters in 6.05” With these words, as the one who describes the figures pointed on an excelll sheet, Graham Sykes had his experience aboard the “Force of Nature”the faster steam motorcycle ever built, they collect in Motorpasion motorcycle. Sykes explained at the end of the test he had achieved beat your own record and had reached 201 meters faster than anyone aboard a steam motorcycle. The eighth mile, those just over 200 meters, is another of the usual distances in this type of racing. Although it is far from the world record on a motorcycle Dragster (less than five seconds and 469 km/h of peak speed) the merit is double because it is built in the house garage only for exhibition purposes. And warns: “We are very close to running the 402 meters in five seconds. We really want to finish the great engine at the end of this year, with 120 liters of water and three seconds of power. “Because the current motorcycle only has a water tank of 88 liters and generates its maximum power for 1.9 seconds. Yes, it’s talking about water. Because that is a steam motorcycle, right? In which it moves with water. How do you do it? They explain in Motorpasion motorcycle that the system is as simple as water, heat and pressure. To heat the water they use hydrogenated vegetable oil to produce pressure. This accumulates until being expelled by a Laval nozzle. At that time, overheated steam is in charge of throwing the motorcycle at more than 250 km/h. In fact, according to Sykes, the motorcycle can reach up to 320 km/h (once the mile room is exceeded) and is trying to increase the capacity up to 130 liters of tank and with two heating pipes Take the water up to 200ºC of temperature and generate 30 pressure bars. Objective: break the barrier of six seconds in 402 meters. Photo | CPE In Xataka | The crazy and crazy story of nuclear cars: the projects that played to be God during the twentieth century

Desperate to find his stolen motorcycle, he ended up locating a container with another 25 about to sail. It wasn’t thanks to GPS

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In Spain a motorcycle is steal every six minutes. It is enough with a van and two or three people willing to make it disappear. It is not the only country that this scourge suffers. In the United Kingdom Motorcycles are stolen worth three million each monthsomething that leads to a curious story. One in which the London police could find much more than he was looking for. Biketrac It is a company specialized in GPS tracking devices based in the United Kingdom. Next to the police, and after investigating the theft of a client, he has been able to locate many more motorcycles than he had planned. One of the company’s clients called those responsible for the service, desperate after the theft of their BMW R 1200 GSone of the stars in the German house. Biketrac, which offers a tracking service by combining both GPS and radiofrequency, located the motorcycle at a point of Essexa small county that may sound to you if you like Viking history. They soon realized that the motorcycle was still moving, getting closer and more to a load spring near the port. They were quite clear that thieves wanted to send the motorcycle abroad, and that time ran against him. According to the company, the authorities could be indicated to the exact container that contained them thanks to the radio frequency, and not to the GPS. Within a container, GPS ceases to be a precise technologyand that is where the radiofrequency You can emit small radio pulses that, tracked with appropriate portable receptors, can determine locations exactly. Simply approach the container and check the signal intensity. When it reaches its maximum, you are facing it. With the police authorization, readings were taken in the area to triangular the exact position of the container, identifying its corresponding number to subsequently inform the authorities. Location and number in hand, the police requested permission from the port to access the container. Bingo. Inside it was not alone the BMW R 1200 GS, there were a total of 25 motorcycles stacked in the container, ready to leave the country. This was how, in the task of finding a single motorcycle, almost thirty of them, thanks to radio frequency technology. An unusual in most trackers sold in Spain. Image | BMW In Xataka | Electronics has started a war to kill the most sacred piece of motorcycles: the traditional clutch

The European motorcycle has it more difficult than ever

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KTM has dodged the bullet. Or, rather, it has made them extract before bleak. Of being One of the main manufacturers in Europe went on to face a critical financial situation and insurmountable without external help. Factory closures, stop in the production and commitment of a complete restructuring plan to get out of the hole. KTM has been rescued from bankruptcy, although its future is still in the air. Why is it important. KTM is One of the historical brands in the world of motorcycle. An Austrian with almost a hundred years of history, and a wide presence in the main best -selling segments in the world: trail and naked. It is one of the few companies with a presence in Moto GPand one of the few European survivors with BMW and Triumph. In a nutshell, losing KTM was losing a European giant. Where bankruptcy comes from. The KTM crisis It is mainly due to a simple reason: they sold a lot, but They did not earn enough money. It is a company that did not hesitate to make strong investments to grow in emerging markets, development for new models and participation in competitions such as GP. This ended up translating in motorcycles notably more expensive about its competition. A snowball that resulted in a global reduction in the demand for their motorcycles, overproduction problems (they failed to sell everything they made) and a debt of more than 2,000 million euros. Safe. As they collect in Motorpasionthe Austrian company has confirmed obtaining the necessary financing to carry out its restructuring plan. “Piere Mobility Ag and KTM AG have received financing commitments, subject to the execution of the corresponding agreements, which They will guarantee that the fees of the quotas can be fulfilled on time. “ An oxygen ball in the form of 600 million euros that KTM had to deposit to avoid bankruptcy. It is news that It was ahead in February 2025after This plan is approved and be waiting for the deposit. The person in charge. Although KTM has not directly expressed who is responsible for this economic injection, all eyes are in Bajaj Auto. This Indian giant has 49.9% Piere Bajaj Ag (KTM matrix), and has been injecting millions for more than two years to keep its production line afloat. Bajaj is also interested in keeping KTM alive. The group is in full expansion in Europe with their own bass motorcycles, and rescuing KTM is a good plan to stay in a privilege position within the motorcycle world. What happens now. KTM is obliged to meet a restructuring plan. What we still do not know is how they plan to reverse this situation to be a competitive brand again. Adjusting the production to the sales forecast, reviewing the price strategy and focusing on low -cost models aim to be three of the pillars that, or not, will have to start cementing. Although KTM will continue producing flagship models In Austria, India will be the country of choice for its motorcycles of 125 and 390, at the hands of Bajaj Auto. The European motorcycle, more and more exception. There are currently only three European brands in the best -selling top 10 motorcycles in April 2025. The first is BMW, which occupies the seventh position. In positions ten -nine, Rieju (Spanish) and Piaggio (Italian). At the head, the historical Japanese Honda and Yamaha (have been unquestionable leaders in each category for years) … followed by The Chinese, Zontes and Voge. The paradigm shift is clear: China will inevitably conquer the motorcycle market, where the adjusted price has not yet been lost. India keep pressing. Although the looks are put in China, India has a lot to do in the future of the motorcycle industry in Europe. Bajaj Auto is not only behind KTM, it also produces motorcycles for one of the most prestigious brands in Europe: Triumph. Speed ​​400 and Scrambler 400x are produced in India, in Bajaj plants. Royal Enfield, who despite his name, has been India for years, has tripled sales in 2024with a very aggressive strategy of prices and balanced models in the middle displacement segments. Two names and two examples of how the future of the European motorcycle happens, less and less, through Europe. Image | KTM In Xataka | In his obsession to end the noisy motorcycles, the EU has just knew the coup of grace

If the Electric Ford Capri seems strange to you, it is because you do not remember that one day it took a motorcycle engine. Yes, a V4 engine

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2.- Molancholic sadness originated by the memory of a loss Nostalgia has come to stay in the car market. It makes a lot of sense, if we think coldly. We are facing a historical moment in the automobile industry. The regulatory changes and a new technology that seems to be average price increased of a car to Remove some capabilities He has made many feel expelled from this “new mobility.” Nostalgia applied to the automobile market is nothing more than the redundancy of A constant of our societyencouraged to constantly remind us that all the past was better. And it does not have to be exactly like that but manufacturers have decided to enter the game. If the most common buyer of a new car exceeds 45 years and what lived between 15 and 25 years We consider it as the best time of our life … You just have to subtract. That is why Renault has risen to Renault 5which ceased to be manufactured 40 years ago and was an essential part of the childhood of those buyers who are already well entered in the forties. The same buyers who have the purchasing power to get those cars. He will follow him Renault 4 and the Twingo. It is about attracting the electric car market to an audience that needs stimuli and incentives that appeal to their feelings. Ford opted for a slightly more risky strategy: use mythical names. He did it with the Ford Mustang, who was left an electric brother. And he has done it with the Ford Capri. A car that was an icon of the 70s and a large part of the 80s. Subtracts, again, and checks who is directed An electric car called Ford Capri. Renault has opted for popular models but Ford has chosen the way to resurrect names that have a space of honor in the collective imaginary of car lovers. And, with this, they have gotten the most staunch defenders to be thrown on them but have also managed to get to those who would cost more money with higher investments in marketing. An example of that selective memory and understanding that the past was better for the simple fact that we remember it is the case of Ford Capri. Yes, it has risen as an electric car but in its day it also came to set up an unexpected, weird and that of course we do not associate with the Muscle Cars American. A motorcycle engine in a mythical car That generalized image we have of “American car” of the Ford Capri is not such and partly distorted by memory. The car was born as a European version of Ford Mustang. That forced to make a smaller car, with also smaller engines and, above all, except gastons. That led Ford to opt for a curious solution with the launch at the end of the 60s: mount a V4 engine. Ford’s intention was to make Capri A car that young Europeans could buythat was not expensive and that offered a cheap and sports alternative to the classic German Coupés. The proper functioning of Mustang In the United States they convinced them that they could get a similar result in Europe. With that premise, it was about recycling all possible components to prevent development from being price. With that premise, Ford brought out a V4 engine. A very little used concept in the car market because it forces to develop a propeller with Two ass, two exhaust collectors and two valve trains. That is much more complicated than a four -cylinder engine online. In return, you get a propeller with a very characteristic sound and very contained dimensions. Width it can be a problem if the car is very narrow but it is a much more compact option than its older brothers. In addition, the power delivery was softer than with a four -cylinder online, although it does not reach the refinement of a V6 or a V8. That compact size is perfect for a high performance motorcycle. Its power can go above 100 hp easily and entered in this field, the configuration is ideal for high performance motorcycles. In a car, where the weight is much greater, this advantage is very eclipsed. Ford’s V4 engine we already knew it in Europe. The company put it at the service of Ford Taunus and was Saab’s supplier. Also Lancia with the fulvia He had tried unsuccessfully to make the V4 engine an alternative to the four online cylinders. Despite their best behavior, the high development and production costs finished killing a propeller that we would see again in the Porsche 919 Hybrid of Le Mans. But that is another story. Photo | Ford In Xataka | Ford devised a car moved by nuclear energy in 1962. Other of his crazy ideas are more present than ever

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