Got a note from Dan Anderson in Sydney, Australia about his design for an electric motorcycle called the Voltra. It’s his thesis project for Industrial Design and it looks well thought out and very minimal. My concern when looking at it was knee placement, the mounting bolt for the seat and tail section seems to [...]
November 2009
Remember TechShop? I mentioned it over 2 years ago, it’s a membership based workshop that has practically everything you could imagine if you wanted to design and construct a project or work on an idea. Machine tools, electronic gear, computers, it’s hard to think of a tool or resource you might want or need to [...]
For those of you wondering what Erik Buell will be doing in the near future, it looks like he’s going racing. I guess he won’t be sitting around at Harley Davidson after all. Erik Buell, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Buell Motorcycle Company, will leave the company to establish Erik Buell Racing, an independent [...]
Although a vote is still necessary, the union representing Harley Davidson employees at the York, PA plant will be voting on a proposed contract, December 2nd. Workers at the plant predict the contract will be approved. If negotiations had failed, plans to relocate the plant to Shelbyville, Kentucky were in progress. This is certainly good [...]
