Archive for October, 2005
Oil, lots of oil, let’s start digging
31 October 2005Don’t sell your gasoline powered vehicles just yet, there’s a barrel or two of oil still out there and as prices rise, more of those barrels will appear in the pipeline as new resources become profitable. I mentioned oil shale or tar sands before but if you never bothered to look into it, you really [...]
YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005
31 October 2005Yamaha just held the YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005, where technicians from 23 countries competed against one another to see who fared best.
From the news release:
The contents of this year’ s contest included (1) a written test of technology, product and motorcycle industry knowledge (60 min.), (2) a practical skills test of pre-delivery [...]
Bad Brothers YSR Jetbike
30 October 2005When many of us hear the words jetbike or turbine powered bike, we think of Jay Leno riding around on his megabuck two wheeler powered by a helicopter turbine. Now that’s a very neat bike and given the opportunity, I’d love to ride it. Most of us, though, have far less money but some guys [...]
Ducati 999R XEROX and ST3S ABS Preview at Birmingham
29 October 2005Ducati is previewing two new motorcycles at Birmingham. From the press release:
In the run-up to the presentation of its complete Model Year 2006 range at EICMA in Milan from 15 to 20 November, Ducati chose the prestigious Motorcycle and Scooter Show in Birmingham (UK) to preview two of its new models due out next year. [...]
Neodymics bike to moped conversion unit - BMU
29 October 2005Got an email the other day from Jeff Radtke. Jeff has a company up in Madison, Wisconsin called Neodymics and he’s been busy designing and building a bike to moped conversion unit (a BMU), that quickly converts a standard bicycle into a moped. When I say quickly, I mean in seconds. All you do is [...]
MMI - Motorcycle Mechanics Institute
28 October 2005Many of us have had the experience. You have a problem with your bike, it’s a tough job, you don’t have the tools or the time, the know-how or perhaps you just would rather have it done for you because there are other things you need to do. You get to the bike shop, probably [...]
Hayabusa V8 powered car sets record
27 October 2005The Hayabusa V8 engine we like so much here at The Kneeslider, powered a Radical SR8 to a new lap record for production cars at the Nurburgring. The former record holder, a Porsche 996 GT2 was eclipsed by 20 seconds! Records like this normally get lowered by a second here and there, the Radical [...]
Classic motorcycle books
27 October 2005Book publishing these days is a pretty automated affair, they churn out titles by the thousands and if a title doesn’t sell by the truckload, it’s dropped from the list and thousands more are introduced. It’s a shotgun method to locate a few good ones, but the audience for one of those books, even if [...]
