Archive for February, 2005
LoJack for motorcycles being introduced
16 February 2005LoJack is introducing LoJack for motorcycles.
LoJack For Motorcycles will be rolled out on a market-by-market basis in the United States, where motorcycle theft rates are highest. The product is
available now at certified franchise dealers in Massachusetts and will be available in the greater Miami/Fort Lauderdale area by March 2005. LoJack For Motorcycles [...]
Motorcycle crate engines
16 February 2005We need motorcycle crate engines. For quite a while now, if you got the urge to rebuild a car, all you had to do is pick up a catalog from any one of a lot of companies, choose the engine you want, displacement, horsepower, mild or wild and with the stroke of a check have [...]
Make Magazine finally arrives
15 February 2005Way back here I mentioned the upcoming release of Make Magazine, devoted to those of us who like tools and taking things apart and finding out how stuff works and most importantly, how to build neat new things to solve some problem or just to see if we could. My first issue finally arrived yesterday. [...]
S&S Cycle forbids internet sales
14 February 2005S&S Cycle, Inc. has formulated a policy that forbids dealers from selling S&S products on the internet. S&S, as you probably know, sells V-Twin engines and components into the chopper, Harley and V twin racing markets. Resellers may advertise the fact that they have them, but they may not advertise the price or sell the [...]
Triumph returning to flat track?
13 February 2005Noticed a short piece in Motorcyclist about a Triumph flat tracker being prepared for the 2005 season by Doug Horner of VMC Frames. A twin from the Thruxton is bored and stroked to 988cc then gets the full engine mod treatment, reworked head, lightened crank, etc. The flat track scene used to be a Harley [...]
Hayabusa and ZX12R vs. Modified Viper
12 February 2005Some folks do not believe how fast,… how really, really fast, today’s bikes are. Here is a video of a lot of comparison runs between several different Hayabusas from stock to big bore and nitrous and one ZX12R, highly modified as well, racing against a Viper coupe with supercharger and lots of engine mods and [...]
Motorcycle car hybrids
11 February 2005Wasn’t planning on turning this into a car blog but I have to mention one more company using Hayabusa engines since they seem to have quite a business building street legal cars and kits. The comany is Z Cars over in England and they have some of the coolest conversions, putting bike engines into a [...]
Hayabusa 3 wheeler
11 February 2005Since we’ve been talking about Hayabusa engines, I ran across this Hayabusa with a sort of, well… , growth out back. It’s a wheelie bar on steroids or something. I’m not sure what the reason behind it is but it’s interesting, not your average 3 wheeler.
