The Bottpower Project is so named because the builders liked the concept of the Battle of the Twins race series from some years back. The BOTT 1000 Morlaco, their current project, is powered by a Honda 954cc Fireblade engine and incorporates a Hossack-style front suspension mounted on a trellis type frame. Hugo Van Waaijen, industrial [...]
September 2006
Another SE Asian country looking to ramp up motorcycle exports is Vietnam. We’ve written about the Vietnamese scooter rebuilding companies trying to make a name for themselves with varying degrees of success, but Vietnam is moving into building and exporting brand new motorcycles, too. It’s not a big industry yet, but you can be sure [...]
Came across this photo a while back and thought you might like to see some original thinking in the motorcycle design field, this is the Monotrack Experimental built back in the early seventies by Dan Hanebrink. The description on the Hanebrink site pretty much sums it up: In 1971 “Cycle News” publisher Chuck Clayton asked [...]
This is getting interesting. Since yesterday’s post about motorcycle builders we’ve received numerous responses, a few in the comments and some by email from builders both well known and unknown, many of these bikes look very unique and well thought out. It’s amazing many of these builders haven’t received the coverage they deserve, where have [...]
