June 2006

Michael Czysz is planning to publicly unveil the MotoCzysz C1 factory racebike at the 2006 Red Bull USGP, July 21-23. Deposits for the first 50 production bikes will also be taken on the MotoCzysz website, starting at midnight, July 23rd. Asking price is expected to be $100,000+. What the “production bike” will be exactly, isn’t [...]

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Super Bikes on SpeedTV

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 6/29/2006

in Motorcycle Shows

As we noted last week, 2 Wheel Tuesday wrapped up and the SpeedTV program schedule was shuffled around a bit. A new program, Super Bikes, aired for the first time this week. It’s aimed at the young male rider according to the SpeedTV web site. Here’s how they describe it: Each episode of “Super Bikes!” [...]

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In the last few days there have been a number of stories about the fastest production sedan (Brabus Mercedes, 225.19mph), the fastest production pickup (Holden HSV Maloo R8 Ute, 168.66mph, no, I never heard of it either) and not long ago, the fastest production car (Bugatti Veyron, 253mph). Nothing wrong with touting the abilities of [...]

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Royal Enfield Diesel Conversion

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 6/27/2006

in Diesel Engines, Diesel Motorcycle, Workshop & Tools

A little while back we mentioned a Royal Enfield for sale that was set up to run on biodiesel. Here’s a very well laid out website by Charles Altmann who shows you how to take a Royal Enfield Bullet, and after removing the gasoline engine, install a 406cc, single cylinder, direct injection Yanmar diesel or [...]

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