May 2008

Harley Davidson Sportster Powered Ford Model T

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/31/2008

in Motor Vehicles, Motorcycle Builders

The combinations are endless, take a motorcycle engine, drop it into a car and off you go, like this 1923 Model T with a Harley Davidson 1200 Sportster engine for power. I’m guessing it has more horsepower than the original engine by a fair margin plus the unmistakable V-twin sound. The Model T uses the [...]

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The little Honda Monkey bikes, the 50cc Z series mini bikes, are pretty popular in some countries. Some fans of the little guy really engineer very nifty modifications, like this 125cc inline 4 cylinder engine for instance. It’s so small it looks like a model but it’s a real engine and sounds great! Not a [...]

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New Superbike and Literbike Racing Rules

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/30/2008

in Motorcycle Racing

The Daytona Motorsports Group which bought the rights to the AMA racing series has been releasing the new rules for the various classes. The last rules to be released are for the Literbike class, covering the purse, contingency money and other technical details. Tech rules are almost identical to the Canadian Superbike rules and what [...]

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2009 Vmax – More Photos

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/29/2008

in Motorcycle Business, Motorcycle Design

Here are more views and engine closeups of the new 2009 Vmax. The tach is now in the proper place, instead of the speedometer as in the original. These photos come from MotoRevue where they are citing specs of 1800cc and 210 horsepower, though until Yamaha releases the info, I can’t say those are official [...]

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