Ludovic 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 [...]
September 2005
After 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 [...]
DARPA, 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, [...]
Here 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 [...]
