Yesterday’s offline browsing led to a short piece in Cycle World about Bill Werner, the top tuner for Grand National champions, who built a Kawasaki Ninja 650 based flat tracker. That reminded me of a comment here on The Kneeslider and after doing some digging I found it along with a link to a photo. [...]
From the monthly archives:
November 2007
My Internet connection from the friendly folks at Verizon decided to go offline this morning, (along with the connection of many thousands of others) so I thought I would use the time to catch up on the motorcycle magazines I’ve been piling up instead of reading. Found a few interesting items …
Greggs Customs / GC-Cycles, [...]
Remember the Mazda rotary powered motorcycle we brought you back in May? Many of you have asked about it since then but I didn’t have any more information about it. As I was perusing the latest Cycle World, there it was again, all finished now and one of their featured American Flyers.
The bike is the [...]
December is approaching. The last time many riders have thrown a leg over a bike with the intent to actually go somewhere is starting to seem distant. The desire to look through a corner while rolling the throttle has to be replaced with something else (but what?). What out of the saddle [...]
At the recent EICMA show in Milan, there was an interesting Triumph flat tracker on display. Based on the current Triumph twin, it has the look of a classic Triumph from years ago. After doing a bit of digging I found the Triumph folks over in Italy had commissioned this build for the show from [...]
Roger Goldammer’s ExperiMental, the Discovery Biker Build Off bike is for sale. It’s powered by a 250cc liquid cooled 2 stroke super kart engine with tandem cylinders and 2 crankshafts geared together. It’s a pretty impressive piece of engineering. The show featured his bike running against Matt Hotch who built his Vincent powered Vinnie. Roger [...]
Mikuni American makes a lot of high performance carburetors for motorcycles and they’re bringing back a 2004 ad campaign, the Mikuni HSR “Explicit Performance Advisory” with an all new updated image.
The “V-Twins have fantasies, too” ad highlights the … um … technical superiority of Mikuni carbs, … or something. The image is on the cover [...]
Ecosse Moto Works has been building some interesting high end motorcycles for several years now. The Heretic is a hand built roadster with impressive equipment right from the start, a 130 horsepower, 1966cc V-Twin and top shelf pieces front to back. But, in pursuit of the fat wallet market, they’ve taken the Heretic and made [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
