Motorcycles and Some Common Interesting Facts

You can see a lot of types of transport you can use and have in your life. Nowadays the most popular type becomes a motorcycle.

A motorcycle (a motorbicycle, motorbike, bike, cycle) – this is a motor vehicle with two wheels. You surely know this. In many parts of the world, in many countries this type of transport is the most affordable.

There are around 200 million motorcycles. Don’t wonder. This number includes different mopeds, motor scooters and other powered two- and three-wheelers. And all of these types are widely used everywhere. It is about 33 motorcycles per 1000 people. You can compare it to cars, the number of which is about 590 millions or about 91 per 1000 people! Interesting?

Most of all you can notice motorcycles in the developing countries, such as Asia – about 58%, and 33% of them are in the Japan (we don’t include it to developing countries) and the United States. In China and India in 2002 year it have been about 15 million cars, but… 71 million motorcycles! You see, they are popular types of transport.

The first motorcycle has been designed and built in 1885 by Daimler Reitwagen and Wilhelm Maybach.

In some countries, for example, Taiwan, motorcycles are the most popular and the most used type of transport. It is about 2 500 cars for ten thousand people and about 5 000 motorcycles! This mean of transport can be also because of the reason that it is considered to be cheaper than car and also because of the lack of transport.

The four largest motorcycle markets in the world are in Asia:
- China,
- India,
- Indonesia,
- Vietnam.

Though it has been noticed a downturn of global economics in 2008 the production of motorcycles has increased for about 6.5%. Nowadays the popularity of them grow faster and faster. They became more popular and more favorite type for transport for many people of the world.

There are three main types of motorcycle:
- Street (cruisers, sportbikes, scooters, mopeds)
- off-road (used for motocrosses and are not street legal)
- dual purpose (dual-sport style).
But there are also many different sub-types of motorcycles for many different purposes among these types.

The positions for riding a motorcycle depends on the type of motorcycle you ride. Motorcycle rider postures:
- Sport – demands a forward lean. The rider neither angled forward nor slung back.
- Standard – is the most neutral.
- Cruiser – in this position the rider is relaxed. The body is slightly reclined, almost leaning back toward the rear of the motorcycle.

Motorcycle riders have their own slang and jargon. For example,
- Brain Bucket – A motorcycle helmet
- Catwalk – one of the terms for a wheelie
- Flogging it – Riding hard with wide open throttle
- Heat – Police officers
- Zook – Short for Suzuki
There are even special dictionaries of motorcycle speech.

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