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 [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2006
Both KTM and BMW are introducing their own branded versions of the Leatt-Braceâ„¢. 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 X-Wedge? [...]
When we last checked in on Paul Brodie, his 1919 Excelsior restoration was coming along nicely but it was still in the early stages of reconstruction. Paul has made a lot of progress since then though the project still has quite a way to go. According to Paul, he’s still figuring out the bottom end [...]
It’s always enjoyable to get the new motorcycle magazines in my digital inbox, so when Cycle World showed up yesterday I took a few minutes to run through the mag and see what was new. There is a review of the Confederate Hellcat by John Burns which quickly had me scratching my head. He complained [...]
Is there an equivalent long term collectibility or desirability for custom motorcycles like there is for custom cars? Old custom cars seem to come back regularly, a famous creation from twenty or more years ago is found in some barn and it’s restored to its former glory. Whether it’s a custom by George Barris or [...]
Aprilia joins the companies bringing out standard motorcycles with automatic transmissions. You can expect to see this growing fast in many segments, especially if these early entrants see much success. I would be very surprised if all of the manufacturers didn’t have an automatic or two somewhere in their lineup before long.
From Aprilia:
The NA 850 [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
