Ducati has something hidden in their back room. If you go to ducati.com there’s an intro screen that brings up the visual shown above. It seems a Ducati streetfighter will be introduced November 3rd. I wonder if it will make it that far before it leaks to the web. I have no other info but [...]
October 2008
Are you one of those guys who feels there’s just no substitute for cubic inches? Well, Bill Price thought you might like to know he’s designing an engine for you, it’s called the Bad Dog 215, as in 215 cubic inches. The sixty-degree air-and-oil-cooled 4-valve DOHC semi-unit 3500cc engine has a 6 inch bore and [...]
The Moto Engineering Foundation (MEF) has started the MotoStudent competition in Spain aimed at university students, where their goal is to design and build motorcycles leading to a competition against students from Spanish and other European universities and eventually worldwide. The students will use their engineering skills to build motorcycles under the real restrictions of [...]
A little over a year ago, Electric Motorsport gutted a Yamaha R1 and filled it with batteries and an electric motor. It looked a bit rough but it worked pretty well. They evidently learned quite a bit from that project because they’ve introduced the GPR-S, a lithium battery powered model that looks like a finished [...]
