October 2005

Got 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 [...]

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MMI – Motorcycle Mechanics Institute

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 10/28/2005

in Motorcycle Business, Workshop & Tools

Many 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 [...]

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Hayabusa V8 powered car sets record

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 10/27/2005

in Engines, Motor Vehicles

The 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 SR8 [...]

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Classic motorcycle books

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 10/27/2005

in Motorcycle Books

Book 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 [...]

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