Liberty Motors of Seattle, Washington, builds and restores some very nice sidecars. The business is the work of Pete Larsen and his wife Patty. Pete is an industrial designer and fabricator and recently started building something a little different, the ACE Cycle Car, a 3 wheeler that looks an awful lot like the old Morgan [...]
November 2006
Both KTM and BMW are introducing their own branded versions of the Leatt-Brace™. Designed by South African Dr. Chris Leatt, the neck brace offers protection for your neck, the one part of your body that up until now has not had any equivalent protection compared to all of the other safety gear you could wear. [...]
Suppose you could build an entire motorcycle frame with parts cut on a CNC machine and then bolted together. That’s the concept behind the RV100 from Revolution Motorcycles of Doylestown, PA. Martin O’Toole, a mechanical engineer by training with extensive experience in 3 dimensional machine design, CNC programming, and electrical controls, decided to give it [...]
S&S Cycle has built an all new V-Twin engine called the “X-Wedge.” This is not a re-engineered anything, they started from scratch and designed a brand new engine with an emissions legal fuel and exhaust system, which will conveniently address the custom bike building issues caused by the new EPA rules. What’s new about the [...]
