January 2007

RoadRazer – Hayabusa Powered Street Racer

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 1/23/2007

in Motor Vehicles

The 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 [...]

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Victory Vision V-Twin Touring Bikes

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 1/21/2007

in Motorcycle Business, Motorcycle Design

Anyone 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 [...]

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Suzuki 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 [...]

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S&S Cycle Engines Get EPA Certification

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 1/19/2007

in Engines, Motorcycle Builders, Vintage Motorcycles

S&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 [...]

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