Ok, you just bought your shiny new Triumph and you’re right proud, you are, but wait! If you show up at the local pub and talk like an American, they’ll laugh and tell you to get a Harley. Don’t despair, there’s help, The American’s Guide to Speaking British. It will make you a proper English [...]
From the monthly archives:
February 2005
There’s been a LOT of follow up on that forum where the police were joking about the crashed biker. Seems like it got pretty heated. Wow.
A couple of weeks ago I was talking about what I called the “universal engine” concept, where I said you can put almost any engine into any vehicle if it has the proper power characteristics. I’m not sure “motorcycle engines” or “car engines” really exist. Yesterday I pointed to the SR8, a racecar with a [...]
Radical Extreme Sports Cars started building race cars powered by superbike engines back in 1996. They began using Suzuki engines and it looks like they have been fairly successful. Their latest creation, the SR8, goes a step farther. Instead of just dropping in a complete engine, they built a V8 by grafting two Hayabusa engines [...]
These have been available in Europe for a few years but they are now available in the US for those of you who have to get the look just right. Tomahawk superbike tires come in several colors so you can have those red tires for your Ducati or green for your Kawasaki. Like anything else, [...]
What do you do with that old computer when it’s ready for the junk pile? Wait! Take it apart and look at all of the neat pieces, put them together in different ways and you get art. Very cool. Some parts look like something all by themselves but if you have an eye for this [...]
A company has developed a heads up display for motorcycles. Sportvue has a new product, the MC1, that attaches to your helmet and displays speed, engine rpm and what gear you’re in. Looks pretty cool. Just what you need when you’re doing those high speed maneuvers.
This is a bit weird. Just saw this link over at Roadracing World pointing to a forum where law enforcement officers meet. Hmm… read it and form your own conclusions. The gist of it is that some cop was chasing a sportbike rider who crashed and was very seriously injured and the cop just couldn’t [...]
