Archive for June, 2007
Ducati Considering Harley Davidson Merger?
14 June 2007Sometimes you don’t know what to believe but this story has popped up almost everywhere in the past few days, which means very little on the Internet, of course, but according to the reports, “Ducati Motor Holding … would consider a merger with US-based Harley-Davidson “anytime”, said Enrico D’Onofrio, CFO.”
If you read the reports carefully, [...]
2008 Kawasaki Versys
13 June 2007Kawasaki has introduced a brand new multi purpose motorcycle designed for all sorts of different riding styles and needs, the 2008 Versys. It’s a 649cc 8 valve parallel twin that looks pretty good.
Kawasaki press release follows:
The new 2008 Kawasaki Versys is a machine which occupies a hard to define sweet spot in the motorcycling universe. [...]
China Builds and Sells Fake Yamaha Scooters
13 June 2007Zhejiang Huatian, China’s largest scooter manufacturer, was fined $1.1 million for selling scooters under the Yamaha brand name.
The Chinese company, Zhejiang Huatian, registered a shell company in Japan’s remote Ishikawa prefecture in 2000 under the same three characters used by Yamaha to render its name in Chinese. This Japanese shell company then signed a licensing [...]
Kainzinger Vmax - V-Fource 1680
12 June 2007As Yamaha forever fiddles around planning the introduction of the long awaited new V-max, I was thinking again about something I thought about long ago, a sportbike powered by the V-max’s V4 engine, though maybe “sportbike” is a bit misleading, the idea is a great sounding muscle bike that likes to turn. It certainly isn’t [...]
Kettenkrad For Sale - Own a Motorcycle Half Track
11 June 2007Here’s something you will rarely see, a genuine WWII Kettenkrad up for sale! These motorcycle half tracks were produced by NSU in the second world war and could be carried in Ju-52 aircraft and were used for such things as pulling small artillery pieces in the field. We covered these before but the last one [...]
Moko Frames for Harley Davidson V-Twins
11 June 2007In The Kneeslider’s carefully catalogued haphazardly strewn collection of hundreds of back issues of motorcycle magazines, lies a treasure trove of information. Many of those mags have post-it notes sticking out from the pages with a small note about some interesting content on a particular topic, something I thought might be worth investigating in more [...]
Alfabike Follow Up
9 June 2007After we featured the Alfabike a few days ago, some comments said it looked like it would be tough to kick start. One comment by sweetlemonaid provided a link to some photos of the bike during the build and there’s also a link on the site to a video showing the builder, Chris Barber, kick [...]
Harley Davidson ATV
9 June 2007What do you do with a Harley Davidson you purchased from New Orleans after the flood? Well, since it probably already saw some water and mud, why not just go all out and get it ready for full time use in those same conditions and turn your Harley into an ATV?
This started out as a [...]
