March 2005 - The Kneeslider

Archive for March, 2005

Jim Feuling

31 March 2005

With all of this talk of the Hayabusa V8, I neglected to mention the Feuling W3. Jim Feuling, who passed away in 2002, was a prolific inventor and engineer. I first noticed him back around 1990 or so when he developed 4 valve heads for the Harley Davidson Evo engine. I thought of him again [...]

Motorcycle auction

30 March 2005

The 17th Annual Mid-America Motorcycle auction will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 1-2nd. Lots of interesting bikes are up on the block, Ariels, Indians, Scott Flying Squirrels, Velocettes and lots more. If you’re in that area or could be, you might want to check it out.

Cop handcuffs doctor on way to baby delivery

29 March 2005

Maybe I see more of this because I noticed it the first time and it just pops up on my radar. A doctor riding his motorcycle on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby is stopped by a traffic cop.
Dr. Anthony Chidiac was driving his motorcycle 35 mph in a 25 mph [...]

Hayabusa V8 grows in size

28 March 2005

Radical Extreme Sportscars now has an SR9 project that takes the Hayabusa V8 and pushes displacement to 3 liters producing 525bhp.

Naked women and traffic cops

27 March 2005

Got your attention, didn’t it? Now I have nothing against traffic cops, for the overwhelming majority who do great work, stories like this just make them look bad. But explain to me why a stop on suspicion of drunk driving led these two cops to confiscate the woman’s cell phone, search it for photos [...]

Biker Build Off - Matt Hotch

26 March 2005

Just watched a rerun of the Biker Build Off with Matt Hotch. I’ll admit up front that choppers are not my preferred form of two wheeler but Matt Hotch does some very nice work. I like the fact that he is entirely self taught, welding, metal work, everything. His bike, the V Lux, used a [...]

Hubcap Creatures

26 March 2005

These sculptures are another example of scrap art that I find oddly fascinating. This fellow, Hubcap Creatures by Ptolemy, takes hubcaps found on the roadside and turns them into all sorts of creatures, lots of fish and aquatic life but some other stuff, too. I ran across this sometime in the last week or so [...]

Biker Build Off marathon

25 March 2005

Discovery Channel is going to replay all of the Biker Build Off shows on Tuesday, March 29th. So if you are interested in seeing any of those shows again, this would be a good time to set your VCR or digital recorder.