With all of the new Vmax talk, it’s interesting to see what current owners are doing to the originals. Cruising through the ebay listings I came across this custom Yamaha Vmax and I kinda like it.
The owner installed a Triumph single sided swingarm along with the Triumph wheel and connected it to a chain drive [...]
From the monthly archives:
January 2006
Who said GM vehicles don’t sell? The 1950 GM Parade of Progress Futurliner just went for $4.1 million at Barrett Jackson. Wow. That’s a nice bus.
Mat Mladin has been testing at Philip Island for the last few days along with a few of the World Superbike racers, including Troy Corser, and the results don’t look good, … for the AMA Superbike racers. Mladin is coming back from some off season surgery and even had a 160mph crash during testing and [...]
If you follow automotive trends, you know SUVs have peaked and we’re now heading at high speed for what are called crossover vehicles, which is a sort of return to the minivan but with a longer nose to make it look like what used to be called a station wagon, … sort of. The carmakers [...]
Harley Davidson is heading to China where they plan to announce by this summer the opening of a retail outlet for their big V-twins. But an article yesterday mentioned a few of the drawbacks to cruising the open roads over there. A Hong Kong dentist wanted to ride with a group of 35 bikers to [...]
School projects can be a lot of fun if you get to choose what you do. Three students at a Dutch technical school needed a final project before graduation and what it would be was up to them. Putting their heads together they came up with the BladeKart Project. Seems perfectly reasonable to me, you [...]
Honda officially announced the final plans for all of the motorcycle classes it will compete in during 2006.
Press release follows:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. has finalized its Motorcycle Racing Plans for 2006, as outlined below.
Honda’s spirit of challenge is rooted in its motorsport activities. By constantly striving to fulfill its own dreams and aspirations through the [...]
How many times have you stopped at a traffic light triggered by a sensor in the street and your bike doesn’t have enough mass to change the light? It’s a pain in the butt and you end up waiting for a car to come up and trigger the light or you run the red. There’s [...]
