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 [...]
From the monthly archives:
June 2006
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!” is produced [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The new Miller Motorsports Park just had its inaugural AMA races and I notice they’ve scheduled the Bonneville Vintage GP for September 15th, 16th and 17th, 2006. They have a full slate of vintage racing, swap meet and a Concours d’ Elegance sponsored by Motorcycle Classics Magazine.
This new facility is getting great reviews from [...]
Gwen Banquer has had a lot of motorcycles but a few years ago he decided to build a modern version of one of the most highly sought after classics, the Brough Superior. The result is the Banquer Superior.
The Banquer Superior started with a photo of a Brough Superior SS100. He bought a frame from Milwaukee [...]
This is pretty high on my list of “things I’ve never seen before.” MFX, Inc. is a company built around an idea that popped up in the head of Rob Parrette. Rob was sitting around one evening talking to his brother about motorcycles (probably lots of beer involved!) and up pops this idea about making [...]
The Monterey Classic Bike Auction is adding a lot more motorcycles and yesterday Michael Jordan added two Superstock race bikes and two street legal duplicates of those bikes.
Both specimens are Suzuki GSX-R1000s, one ridden by Jason Pridmore in ’05 and the other by Steve Rapp in this year’s AMA Superstock Series. Except for the addition [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
