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 [...]
November 2007
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 [...]
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 [...]
