February 2008

Blastard by GS Motor Company

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 2/21/2008

in Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Design

Over the last few days we’ve been talking about all of the small displacement motorcycles being imported and modified in countries all over the world, except in the USA. Well, there is a small displacement affordable bike available for modification here, the 500cc Buell Blast and Greg Socha’s GS Motor Company has one example of [...]

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Sideburn Flat Track Magazine

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 2/20/2008

in Motorcycle Books, Motorcycle Magazines

Sorting through The Kneeslider’s mail this morning (the print stuff, not email) I found an issue of a brand new magazine from England, it’s called Sideburn and it’s all about the dirty world of go fast, turn left flat trackers. Flipping through the pages I found a display ad for Bratstyle, then I see the [...]

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The Stonebridge Motor Company is a new outfit set up by Nick Gale Custom Cycles and the Ace Cafe for their combined effort to build a bike for the S&S Cycles 50th Anniversary build off in late June. Their new web site will detail all of the build up using one of the S&S SB-Series [...]

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Deus Ex Machina Motorcycles

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 2/19/2008

in Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Business

There’s an Australian motorcycle shop by the name of Deus Ex Machina that is guaranteed to make you feel a bit slighted by the Japanese manufacturers. You see, in Australia, it seems they can purchase brand new Kawasaki W650s and Yamaha SR400s (W650s? I didn’t know that!). And just to rub salt in the wound, [...]

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