Archive for January, 2007
Jesse James Fined for Non Compliant Motorcycles
30 January 2007Jesse James was fined $271,250 by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for building 50 motorcycles between 1998 and 2005 violating state emissions standards. While some may feel this just shows no one is above the law, looking a little closer makes it appear it was more about the money.
Jesse James is not [...]
Evel Knievel Skycycle Snake River Rocket For Sale
29 January 2007About 30 years ago, Evel Knievel kept popping up with one wild motorcycle jump after another, buses, trucks, almost anything you could line up and precede with a ramp and finally, the Snake River Canyon. Many of his jumps were successful, some spectacular failures but you have to admit, he was a showman and promoter. [...]
Triazuma by Ludovic Lazareth
29 January 2007Ludovic Lazareth made a logical move with the Triazuma, a design based on his Quadrazuma. In the U.S., quads are not street legal but three wheelers are because they’re considered motorcycles. Lazareth built this three wheeler with homologation in mind for France and the United Arab Emirates, as far as I can tell. How about [...]
Michael Ulman Motorcycle Sculptures
28 January 2007OK, I’m impressed, … really impressed. Michael Ulman is a “found-object” sculptor, taking things found in the trash, at junkyards and fleamarkets, almost anywhere and then using the parts and pieces to form his mechanical artwork. He’s focused on fantasy motorcycles but turns out the occasional speedboat or hot rod, too. His pieces look like [...]
Cleveland Motorcycle Show 2007
28 January 2007A friend and I performed our late January ritual of attending the Cleveland Motorcycle Show yesterday. It’s usually interesting, though show quality varies from year to year, this year was pretty good. Many motorcycles written about on The Kneeslider were there so we had the chance to see them close up.
The new Victory Vision touring [...]
Hybrid Motorcycle Concept
26 January 2007Hybrid motorcycles have not been as much of a hot topic in the motorcycle world as in the auto world. Motorcycles already get pretty decent mileage and there is more talk of going straight to electric power without the intermediate hybrid step. However, as proved by the Yamaha Gen-Ryu, there is work being done in [...]
BMW R1100S Streetfighter
25 January 2007Markus Fritsch lives in Germany very near the BMW factory. His business, No Limit Streetfighters, builds high quality, highly modified bikes but BMWs are so straight laced and proper, so he thought, what better bike to modify and make unique?
The bike here is a BMW R1100S and it strays quite a bit from the norm [...]
Who Builds for Famous Motorcycle Builders?
24 January 2007We’ve received more than a couple of comments about who really did the work on some of the well publicized custom motorcycles seen on TV or in the magazines. They come from the big name shops but did the “Big Name” build the bike? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no or sometimes some of the parts.
It [...]
