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For the 2009 model year, H-D transformed its venerable FLH line of touring bikes into vastly improved machines, thanks mostly to a much stiffer frame. Too bad that a slumping economy will cut into sales of the ’09 models.

However, this is still a huge market, and The Motor Company has already made a few tweaks to some of its popular touring models for 2010. We rode them around magnificent Colorado to find out how they work. Stay tuned also for a quick ride review of the new Electra Glide Ultra Limited luxury-tourer.As we learned from data shown to us at the Star Stratoliner Deluxe unveiling, the “casual full-dress” segment of touring cruisers is enjoying ever-increasing popularity, and this is largely due to Harley’s Street Glide and Road Glide. Both baggers are updated for 2010 and share a retail price of $18.999.

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Honda’s fingers have firmly located the Indian biker’s pulse. It knows we can’t resist good-looking motorcycles. And that we must have durable quality, a reliable engine and unmatched fuel economy, all of which has to come home attractively priced.

Enter, the 109cc CB Twister, a commuter bike that looks like no other Indian commuter bike to date and has launched with Honda saying it has perfected every aspect of its new motorcycle. Read on and allow us to bring you our opinion on Honda’s new CB Twister.

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Yamaha has unveiled a new electric scooter and announced the goal of becoming the market leader in electric bikes by 2020.

The Tuning Fork Company plans to release three or four electric motorcycles, including business-use models, by the mid-2010s. By 2020, Yamaha aims to become the worldwide market leader in the electric motorcycle segment. Yamaha’s plans begin with the new EC-03 electric scooter, set to launch in Tokyo in Sept. 1 before expanding across Japan Oct. 1.

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There are some things Canadian that you just won’t find anywhere else in North America. We crazy Canucks eat beaver tails (PETA members stand down; they’re not the kind attached to buck-toothed rodents), our parking meters accept Loonies and Toonies, and French Canadians combine fried potatoes, gravy and cheese curds in a delicious concoction called poutine.

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Ducati has long toyed with the idea of entering the lucrative American cruiser market. The little-loved Ducati (Cagiva) Indiana of the late-1970s was the first Duc to ply that segment, but the 650cc V-Twin cruiser was at odds with the sportbike persona of the legendary Italian brand.

Now, three decades later, Ducati again is headed in the direction of the cruiser market with the 2011 Mega Monster, a fat-tired, low-seat muscle cruiser recently seen undergoing development testing on public roads in Italy.

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