Archive for October, 2006
Hayden - Pedrosa - MotoGP
16 October 2006The Kneeslider is not primarily a racing site but if you’ve been following the MotoGP this year you already know how the championship is getting extremely exciting as the season rolls along. Rossi had an awful start this year with setup problems on his Yamaha while Hayden had a lot of consistent podium finishes which [...]
Motorcycle Builders - Cycle World Shows Signup
13 October 2006If you have a custom bike you feel is worthy of big time exposure, you might want to sign up for a chance to display it at the Cycle World Shows that tour the country over the upcoming months.
This season, the Cycle World International Motorcycle Shows presented by Toyota will feature two custom bike displays: [...]
Suzuki B-King Coming to US
12 October 2006Suzuki recently announced the long awaited B-King would be going into production as a 2007 model. As with so many recent announcements, it had the qualifier “not for the U.S.” added to the news release. With that in mind, I just decided to ignore the whole thing, it’s a story that gets old and reporting [...]
Team MOMBA Swap Meet Superbike
12 October 2006Building a racing motorcycle can be a great way to spend a lot of money, sometimes with little to show for it in the end if you’re not careful and that’s why it was interesting to see the Team MOMBA (Mid Ohio Motorcycle Build Attempt) project. I had heard of this quite a few months [...]
Electric Motorcycle from Derbi GPR 50
11 October 2006There’s a growing group of homebuilders who are converting vehicles of all sorts to electric power, motorcycles among them. This motorcycle is a Derbi GPR 50 where the builder removed the original drivetrain and installed 6 lead acid batteries, an electric motor and a DC converter.
The video is a short walk around of the bike [...]
New Harley Davidson XR1200
10 October 2006Harley Davidson held a press conference at Intermot over in Cologne, Germany and showed their new XR1200 Sportster. The boys over at Raptors and Rockets linked to some pics which show a very flat track style Sporty with enough ground clearance to lean over quite a ways without dragging and grinding anything. According to HD, [...]
New Kawasaki Concours - 2008 Concours 14
9 October 2006The Kawasaki Concours has a couple of things in common with the Yamaha Vmax, it’s been around essentially unchanged almost forever (introduced in 1986) and it has a very dedicated following of owners who absolutely love it. This year, though, Kawasaki finally decided to bring the bike into the 21st century and they are introducing [...]
ENV Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorcycle Video
8 October 2006We’ve talked about the ENV hydrogen powered fuel cell motorcycle many times here and there has been some discussion about what it might be like to ride and what it would sound like. Here’s a video of the bike in action which shows it to be a bit more responsive than you might first imagine. [...]
