Comments on: Biker Build Off wrap up http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/04/04/biker-build-off-wrap-up/ Motorcycle News for Positive People Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:40:02 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: hoyt http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/04/04/biker-build-off-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-983 hoyt Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:53:28 +0000 /?p=213#comment-983 The Discovery Channel's website provides links to log feedback. You can suggest builders you would like to see go against one another in future "buildoffs". The Kneeslider readers would probably tune in if a sport bike or cafe racer were built.... Acme Rocketbike American Cafe Racers Performance Machine (Roland Sands - successful road racer) ...all of the above shops are capable. Acme and ACR have been posted on the Kneeslider. Performance Machine has the potential to build something wild with their equipment and former road racer at the helm. Choppers, Sportbikes, & Cafe Racers would all benefit from this new direction.... -choppers would know what a corner looks like -sportbikes would have more style. -The Discovery Channel could turn around from their Hollywood approach and explore the engineering of motorcycles more in depth. -the OEM's, after seeing sportbikes getting more style, in-turn create better products. [example as it pertians to the current custom scene: Victory Hammer] Everyone wins ! Log your requests at: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/bike/talk/talk.html or http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?a=frm&s=6941912904&f=524104084 The Discovery Channel’s website provides links to log feedback. You can suggest builders you would like to see go against one another in future “buildoffs”.

The Kneeslider readers would probably tune in if a sport bike or cafe racer were built….

Acme Rocketbike
American Cafe Racers
Performance Machine (Roland Sands – successful road racer)

…all of the above shops are capable. Acme and ACR have been posted on the Kneeslider. Performance Machine has the potential to build something wild with their equipment and former road racer at the helm.

Choppers, Sportbikes, & Cafe Racers would all benefit from this new direction….
-choppers would know what a corner looks like
-sportbikes would have more style.
-The Discovery Channel could turn around from their Hollywood approach and explore the engineering of motorcycles more in depth.
-the OEM’s, after seeing sportbikes getting more style, in-turn create better products. [example as it pertians to the current custom scene: Victory Hammer]

Everyone wins !
Log your requests at:
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/bike/talk/talk.html

or

http://discovery.infopop.net/1/OpenTopic?a=frm&s=6941912904&f=524104084

]]> By: kneeslider http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/04/04/biker-build-off-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-980 kneeslider Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:40:43 +0000 /?p=213#comment-980 That's very true, but the price of admission for that competition is a wee bit on the high side. I was thinking more along the lines of smaller shops. I think it could be done. Look at what shows up in Cycle World magazine when they highlight American Flyers or some other homebuilt bikes. People are building them now, we just need some incentive and the promise of publicity to get them going. Instead of all these guys wanting to build choppers it might ignite the desire to really learn about motorcycle mechanics and dynamics and start a bunch of garage builders on a new career. Some 16 or 18 year olds that like to weld and go to the races could benefit by seeing the possibilities. Who knows, maybe the celebrities would start looking for custom built sportbikes. Maybe I'm dreaming, but I like the idea. That’s very true, but the price of admission for that competition is a wee bit on the high side. I was thinking more along the lines of smaller shops. I think it could be done. Look at what shows up in Cycle World magazine when they highlight American Flyers or some other homebuilt bikes. People are building them now, we just need some incentive and the promise of publicity to get them going. Instead of all these guys wanting to build choppers it might ignite the desire to really learn about motorcycle mechanics and dynamics and start a bunch of garage builders on a new career. Some 16 or 18 year olds that like to weld and go to the races could benefit by seeing the possibilities. Who knows, maybe the celebrities would start looking for custom built sportbikes. Maybe I’m dreaming, but I like the idea.

]]> By: James - Whybike.com http://thekneeslider.com/archives/2005/04/04/biker-build-off-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-979 James - Whybike.com Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:40:53 +0000 /?p=213#comment-979 We do have a televised competition like what you propose, with the exception of the 10 day/2month requirement. It is called "Motorcycle Grand Prix". The trouble is, it is a lot more entertaining watching some "long-hair" pound a piece of metal and wrestle with rediculously long forks than to watch a bike on a dyno with some clean-cut labcoat making notes on a clipboard. We do have a televised competition like what you propose, with the exception of the 10 day/2month requirement. It is called “Motorcycle Grand Prix”. The trouble is, it is a lot more entertaining watching some “long-hair” pound a piece of metal and wrestle with rediculously long forks than to watch a bike on a dyno with some clean-cut labcoat making notes on a clipboard.

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