Archive for September, 2005
Suzuki B-King Kit by Lazareth
27 September 2005Ludovic Lazareth, the French custom builder who has put together some superb bikes I’ve highlighted before, has come up with a limited edition conversion kit to transform the Suzuki Hayabusa into what looks a lot like the much rumored and highly anticipated, Suzuki B-King. The German magazine, Motorrad, has a long series of photos from [...]
Build your own carbon fiber motorcycle frame
27 September 2005After mentioning motorcycle kits and components I noticed these two links describing the process for building carbon fiber bicycle frames. Super light and super strong, carbon fiber is showing up in all sorts of vehicles. I previously mentioned one company building carbon fiber motorcycle frames for the chopper market but when you look at the [...]
Ghostrider riderless motorcycle
27 September 2005DARPA, the R&D guys at the Department of Defense, came up with a competition last year called the Grand Challenge. The goal is deceptively simple, a driverless, autonomous vehicle must complete a 150 mile desert course in less than 10 hours. If you are quickest across the line, you get $2 million dollars. Last year, [...]
Tilting Vehicle concept
27 September 2005Here we have one Phillip James, an Australian of considerable self taught technical skill, who has built a prototype tilting vehicle that drives like a car, tilts like a motorcycle and looks very stable. With a bit of work, this could be one helluva vehicle. He’s applied for a patent which is a good thing [...]
Motorcycle kits and components
27 September 2005Many visitors here, probably you, are a lot more technical than most folks and I bet more than a few of you can build your own computer. If you can, you know a computer is made from very few and very standard parts and those parts can be purchased from a wide variety of sources. [...]
Motorcycle travel and tours
26 September 2005Some of you live where you can ride year round but those of us who live in the northern U.S. are approaching that time of year when the weather turns cold and our bikes get put away until Spring. That’s all the more reason to take maximum advantage of the riding weather we still have, [...]
BMW 1150 RT-P Police Motorcycle
26 September 2005A couple of news articles over the weekend mentioned a police department in Arizona was re-equipping their force with BMW motorcycles, specifically, the BMW 1150 RT-P. I had mentioned the Honda police bike before but I was unfamiliar with this BMW police model so I thought I would check it out. Looks nice.
It has an [...]
Build Your Own ZX-12R Speed De-Restrictor
25 September 2005We’ve previously written about derestrictors you can buy ready made for various motorcycles, primarily the big Suzukis and Kawasaki ZX-12r. If you can solder and use a multimeter and have basic electronic knowledge, you can build your own ZX-12R derestrictor. The author has schematics and photos on his site and it looks very straight forward, [...]
