August 2009

Allen Millyard Builds a Viper V10 Motorcycle

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 8/25/2009

in Custom motorcycles, Motorcycle Builders

The fellows over at Motorcycle News have a short teaser of Allen Millyard’s new 500 horsepower Viper V10 motorcycle. The V10 really needs no special tuning to get that output so all you have to do is fit the engine into a frame, … yeah, that’s all. Unlike the Chrysler Tomahawk show bike from years [...]

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Chris Flechtner is a builder, has been for quite some time, starting out with RC model cars, then hand built bicycle frames and then a custom from a Honda CB350. He kept building while earning his MFA in design and metal arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Then he apprenticed under one of Japan’s most [...]

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Think about all of those classic images with motorcycles involved, from the movies or advertising, then rethink them with electric power, does the feeling change? Would you come away with different thoughts, would they have the same impact? Brammofan had a little Photoshop contest on his blog and the results were pretty cool, Arnold as [...]

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Harley Davidson Checking Out New Factory Sites – Updated

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 8/20/2009

in Motorcycle Business

Harley Davidson has so far visited 3 of 4 potential locations for a new Harley Davidson factory in anticipation of a possible shutdown of the York, PA facility. The cities in contention are Shelbyville, Ind., Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Shelbyville, Ky. The 4th city has not yet been visited so the name has not been disclosed. [...]

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