A 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 [...]
January 2007
Hybrid 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 [...]
Markus 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 [...]
We’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. [...]
