Archive for January, 2007
RoadRazer - Hayabusa Powered Street Racer
23 January 2007The Hayabusa engine has become the small block Chevy of the motorcycle powered car world, it’s used as the starting point for many projects, whether you drop it in a Mini or build an entirely new car around it.
The RoadRazer, is a carbon fiber bodied, Formula car look alike that is street legal in [...]
Victory Vision V-Twin Touring Bikes
21 January 2007Anyone who regularly reads motorcycle magazines has already seen numerous sketches of these not very secret motorcycles from Victory. Now, in conjunction with the New York International Motorcycle Show, Victory has formally unveiled the Victory Vision Tour and the Victory Vision Street, two brand new luxury touring bikes with a completely new style. They will [...]
Suzuki Custom Boulevard M109R Cruiser
20 January 2007Suzuki took their M109R power cruiser, turned it over to the folks at Cobra Engineering and came up with a bike that’s leaner, lighter and even more performance oriented than the cruiser they started with. The M109R is a cruiser built to highlight the engine but at 700 pounds, it’s a bit on the heavy [...]
S&S Cycle Engines Get EPA Certification
19 January 2007S&S Cycle makes a lot of engines used by custom and kit builders and they just received EPA certification for all three of their V-Series engine families. Last year, as we noted on The Kneeslider, the EPA issued new guidelines that caused a lot of concern in the custom and kit bike builder market and [...]
Hagane Tilting 3 Wheel Custom Yamaha Scooter
18 January 2007At the Tokyo Auto Salon, held last weekend, this custom 3 wheel scooter was shown, based on a Yamaha Majesty. It’s called the “Hagane” and the original Japanese article notes the display suggested they would be producing this, possibly later this year. I can’t really figure out who actually did the work, was it a [...]
Limobikes - London Motorcycle Taxi
17 January 2007Virgin Limobikes offers Londoners the advantages of getting through traffic on a motorcycle, even if you don’t own one. Heading for the soccer match and not looking forward to fighting the traffic? Limobikes can get you to and from the match on a Yamaha FJR1300 ABS, they’ll even supply everything you need.
The passenger gets an [...]
Harley Davidson Twin Cam Powered Cafe Racer
17 January 2007V-twin powered sport bikes have a lot going for them, great sound, lots of torque and I’m always on the lookout for good designs. Stopping by Mark van der Kwaak’s CADbike site I spotted this one right away, it’s his twin cam cafe racer project. It’s a beauty.
Mark has designed this with twin cam power [...]
Supercharged R1 HighPressure by RF Biketech
16 January 2007Built too late for the Terminator movies, this bike would have been perfect. This is the Yamaha R1 “HighPressure” built by German tuning firm RF-Biketech. Other than the rather obvious blower and the rear tire which must be a 360, not to mention the front tire that’s pretty beefy, I can’t tell you much more [...]
