News flash: The world will not end because of rising gas prices. Contrary to the beliefs of those who focus on impending doom and politicians who love this sort of thing to score a few points with the voters, gas prices, adjusted for inflation, are about where they have been for a long time. [...]
From the monthly archives:
April 2006
The Monterey Classic Bike Auction will be returning July 20-22, 2006, held during the weekend of the U.S. Grand Prix, which runs July 22nd. If you’ll recall, the auction last year had some extraordinary bikes on the block, however, we never were able to determine how the auction went off, how many of the [...]
With gasoline prices once again rising, attention is turning to engine variations to increase mileage and efficiency. The ethanol boosted, turbocharged gasoline engine combines a number of well known, current technologies for substantial improvement in mileage at lower cost and complexity than with a hybrid.
Two fellows at MIT came up with the idea of using [...]
Watching the AMA Superbike races at Barber Motorsports Park over the weekend brings up the question of how best to fill the starting grid. There were 34 bikes at the start of Saturday’s race and just a few less on Sunday, so it didn’t take a great deal of predictive skill to know there would [...]
Nothing says Rocker like an old cafe racer, the right paint and parts, proper seat, suspension tweaks and engine tuning, all for the purpose of joining the Ton-Up club and looking good while doing it! Some of the old British bikes were classic cafes but here’s one guy that thinks the perfect cafe begins with [...]
SpeedTV will have lots of racing on Sunday:
World Superbike from Valencia, Spain
Sunday – Race 1 – 11AM eastern,
Sunday – Race 2 – 12 noon eastern
AMA Superbike from Barber Motorsports Park
Sunday – Day 1 – 4PM eastern
Sunday – Day 2 – 5 PM eastern
We recently spotlighted the Honda RC174 replica built by George Beale. This little 6 cylinder GP bike was a wonder in its day, … still is. One of them was at Laguna Seca last year during the MotoGP, someone caught the bike doing a warmup and put the video up on Google. If you never [...]
It’s always been a puzzle how S&S and Harley Davidson got along since there seems to be a lot of potential for complaints of trademark or patent violations, at least it seems that way to the outside observer. Well, it looks like there has been a bit of legal wrangling going on in the background, [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
