From the monthly archives:

July 2005

German MotoGP on TV

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/31/2005

in Motorcycle Racing

The German MotoGP is on today at 11AM eastern on Speed.

Nicky Hayden on pole for German MotoGP

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/30/2005

in Motorcycle Racing

This is more like it. Nicky Hayden has clinched the pole position at Germany’s Sachsenring race course for tomorrow’s MotoGP. We just said a few days ago that doing well at the European tracks has been elusive for Hayden and until he could back up his Laguna Seca win and overall superb performance, everyone would [...]

Yamaha paper motorcycle models

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/30/2005

in Alternative thinking, Down Time, Idle hands

Want your own 50th anniversary edition of the Yamaha MotoGP bike? Yamaha will give you one, sort of, at the Yamaha papercraft site. You can download a paper foldup model and build it yourself. Want a V-Max or an R1? You can have one. These look very cool. You might figure those folks from the [...]

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DA42-TDI Twin Star aircraft

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/29/2005

in Alternative thinking, Diesel Engines, Engines

With all of our posts on the Star Twin 1200 TDI sportbike you might start thinking we believe turbo diesel is a good idea. More reading on the EAA website shows the DA42-TDI Twin Star twin engine aircraft getting FAA certification. Turbo diesels in an airplane! Lately, diesels have been shattering everyone’s preconceived notions of [...]

Motoart

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/29/2005

in Alternative thinking, Down Time, Workshop & Tools

Several times I’ve pointed out scrap metal art and the like and as I was looking over the EAA website after updating info on the HondaJet, I saw this item on Motoart. This company takes parts and pieces of old airplanes and turns them into furniture, sculpture and all sorts of neat things. How about [...]

Review: Arlen Ness is a legendary name in the chopper business but with all of the chopper shows on TV these days, it’s easy to just lump him in with all the rest, a little older and far more successful maybe, but a chopper guy nonetheless. I just read Arlen Ness: The King of Choppers. [...]

Buell XB12X Ulysses

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/29/2005

in Motorcycle Business

Buell has just introduced their new XB12X Ulysses, what they call an Adventure Sportbike. I have yet to see this bike in person, my exposure is the same as yours on the Internet and in the magazines but I will say it seems to have a lot of good things going for it, enough, in [...]

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Aluminum Norton details

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 7/29/2005

in Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Design

When I put up the photos of the aluminum bodied Norton Commando the other day I had no details other than knowing the work was done by Evan Wilcox. I asked Evan for a few details and he explains:
I did the fairing , seat/tail, and front fender. The fuel tank, and side covers [...]