For how common motorcycles are, the designs and parts used in them tend to vary much more wildly than in cars and trucks. Sometimes this is to the rider’s advantage, like Honda experimenting with ...

BMW calls the 15-horsepower 48 volt electric motor in the new CE 02 electric scooter an "externally excited air-cooled synchronous motor." That's a really fancy way of saying that the Motorrad ...

You can find stators in many types of electric generators, motors, and rotors. A stator is also the part of the alternator that’s stationary (while the rotor, also called the flywheel, moves).

Not too long ago I completed a custovation* of my bevelhead 1974 Ducati 750GT. In every way, this is a marvelous example of early Italian sport bike engineering — except for the battery charging ...

In the early muscle-car days, an alternator capable of 60 amps was considered more than enough to handle the meager electrical demands of a point-triggered ignition system, a 20-amp defroster fan, and ...

Over in the United States, the Ninja lineup kicks off with the good ol' 400 that combines a liquid-cooled parallel twin engine with a slipper-clutch transmission. Priced at $5,299 (before taxes and ...

My Honda CBR600RR died at the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado. I was stuck behind a ponderous minivan with a driver who was struggling with the concept of a parking lot. Combine the snail's pace of the ...