Motorcycle Philippines

A comprehensive review of Piaggio’s newest addition to it’s lineup, the Piaggio Fly. Review and photos by Gerdie Francisco.

Three weeks after I looked at the Piaggio Fly 125 at 2211 Works, I was ready to take it home. I felt like bringing a new born baby to its new home. Well of course, I don’t know what that feels like but taking home “Firebird” seemed to feel that way. Oh yes, my new red scooter’s name is Firebird. I named it after Igor Stravinsky’s opera.

Before taking it home, I had a taste of test-driving the unit just so I’d be familiar with the controls. It has been seven months since I’ve driven a scooter and so I wanted to make sure that I could still ride and control one.
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As a rider, there was an episode that I have long been wanting to catch which was part of a series shown in the Discovery Channel. The series is called “Greatest Ever” which ranks the Top 10 machines through thorough research and interviews from experts. They had episodes which featured Sports Cars, Tanks, Fighter Planes, Helicopters, Weapons and Construction Machines. I’d never seen any of those. But the episode on Motorbikes is what I wanted to catch. I’ve only seen the segment on YouTube and was curious what the panel said about rest of the bikes in the Top 10.The other day, I finally found the complete set of links to the other nine segments from that show and I want to share them with all MCP readers. The bike declared the Greatest Ever was a surprise. I thought it will be won by the Ducati but as it turned out, it wasn’t just about speed. The no. 1 barely does 40 kph, but it still was voted by the experts. Interesting, isn’t it?

Here’s no. 10 and the bike’s specs/stats as provided here.

Harley Davidson Knucklehead
Year: 1936
Power: 36 HP
Engine capacity: 1,340 ccm
Weight: no info
Top speed: 145 km/h
Rank: 10th

So are you really up to spending the next hour or so watching the remaining clips? If so, let’s proceed with the countdown from no. 9 to numero uno!

PROCEED TO COUNTDOWN!

Can’t think of what to buy your kid or your favorite inaanak for this Christmas? If you’ve got the budget, then you might want to consider buying this battery operated mini-scoots I’ve spotted recently in the newly re-opened S&R (formerly PriceMart) at Fort Bonifacio Global City.

Read my personal review here.

image from the PGO website.

Long time MCP member and past President of the MIB, Dennis “Dencio” Opina, share with us his real world review of the G-Max 150.

PGO borrowed their tried and reliable tranny from the hard working two-stroke P-Max and gave it a new engine and a new angular body and called it G-Max150 EVO.
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