Kawasaki has entered the full dress touring market with the 2009 Kawasaki Vulcan 1700 Voyager. They’ve done their homework and the bike looks pretty complete. It’s powered by a 1700cc, single overhead cam, 4 valve, fuel injected V-Twin with 107 foot pounds of torque. A 6 speed transmission with overdrive turns a belt final drive. [...]
September 2008
Brammo Motorsports has just raised $10 million in venture capital funding for the Enertia electric motorcycle. According to Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher, that is enough to bring the Enertia into production. What is especially interesting is the source of part of those funds, Best Buy Capital, yep, the Best Buy you know as an electronics [...]
Remember “The Machine” from Fusion Motorcycles? Well, Will Thibeault has been hard at work on something a lot of you may find interesting, he’s designed a conversion kit that will transform your donor Buell into a custom with killer looks. Will’s kit uses a billet T6 aluminum bolt together frame with a built in oil [...]
Some time ago, I pointed out Greg Nelson’s V-Quad engine, a pair of V-Twins joined at the hip to create a V4 with loads of power that still managed to look fairly unobtrusive. He mounted one in an old FXRS and rode around quite a bit, using it as his test bed for development. Since [...]
