Well as long as we’re doing motorcycle powered 3 wheelers, here’s the Norton Shrike. Built some time back in 1984 by Dave Norton, a mechanical design engineer who, after a friend’s accident, decided to build something with safety as his priority. He drove this as a daily driver for several years until the original Yamaha [...]
From the monthly archives:
October 2005
Avon Tyres has a new line of motorcycle tires aimed at sport and supersport machines. From the Avon press release:
Now available in North America for 2005, Viper builds upon the success of previous Avon ranges and offers a wider choice of sizes and a host of improved technologies.
Viper Sport comprises 11 sizes:
AV59 Front: 110/70R17, 120/60R17, [...]
Back around 1975 or 1980, Mechanix Illustrated, Popular Mechanics and Home Mechanix magazines had loads of articles featuring the work of Robert Q. Riley. The articles centered around do it yourself motorized vehicles, often combining power from a small gasoline engine with electric batteries or, in some cases, powered by one or the other alone. [...]
With the price of gas on everyone’s mind, lots of folks are looking for alternatives, like ethanol for instance. Nice idea, made out of corn or sugar or … spilled beer? Yep. Over at Coors, they noticed a lot of spilled beer sloshing over the sides, according to this story, millions of gallons of spilled [...]
John Duhamell and Toni Duhamell, promoters of an inflatable motorcycle vest know as the “AirVest,” were sentenced in San Bernardino County Superior Court. The Duhamell’s made a number of false statements about their company to potential investors, bilking them of over $5 million dollars.
The pair said Harley Davidson had invested heavily in the company [...]
Had an interesting comment yesterday on my post about the Honda DN-01 automatic sports cruiser. Tom mentioned a motorcycle built in China, the CFMoto V5. (That’s version 5, not a V5 engine, don’t get excited) I had never heard of it, so I took a look. If you jump over to their (very slow) site, [...]
If you like the idea of motorcycle engine powered cars like we do, the older variants are fascinating. The old Morgan 3 wheelers were very cool looking and there is a company in England, Triking Cyclecars, building kits with a Moto Guzzi engine. Their website is a bit difficult to get around so I’ll let [...]
Speaking of engine ideas for the Vmax, here’s a recently developed engine from VW, the Twincharger, that holds promise not only for small displacement cars but possibly the motorcycle market as well.
The Twincharger, is a 1390cc 4 cylinder engine with both a supercharger and a turbocharger. The supercharger is used for power below 2400rpm well [...]
