Hattar Motorsports in San Rafael, CA built a Triumph street tracker from a Scrambler. Lots of hand formed bodywork, custom frame, custom pipes and the engine was worked over, … a lot. Starting at 450 pounds and 39 rear wheel horsepower they finished with 320 pounds and 100 rear wheel horsepower. Gorgeous bike but not [...]
January 2011
When you mention the name Öhlins, people often think really nice suspension components but a wee bit expensive, a shock can set you back about $1400, maybe more. In this economy, when motorcycles aren’t flying off the showroom floor, it goes without saying that high end components may be moving a little slower, too. [...]
Kawasaki has updated the W650 retro standard with more displacement and a refined style but it’s only available in Japan, so far, and based on the W650′s poor sales when it was available in the US in 1999 and 2000, the new version may not make it here at all. This is one of those [...]
Many of you remember the Munch Mammut, we’ve written about them several times on The Kneeslider, they were a fascinating motorcycle from the 1960s powered by an NSU auto engine. Very impressive engineering at the time but they looked a little ponderous, after all, that 4 cylinder engine wasn’t designed to fit into a motorcycle, [...]
