April 2011

David Sánchez sent me an update on the BOTT XR-1 project. The chassis design is finished, they’ve built the jig and they’re beginning to weld the first unit. Because of the positive response to their initial renderings, they have decided to go ahead with the creation of a kit so you’ll be able to take [...]

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Hydrogen is another one of those “just around the corner” technologies for powering all of our vehicles. You can use it to run a fuel cell or burn it directly in an internal combustion engine. Either way works, but almost every solution requires high pressure cylinders or very low temperatures to store it before use [...]

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Secret French Motorcycle Museum

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 4/27/2011

in Motorcycle Travel, Vintage Motorcycles

Traveling with a group of tourists, you see the same thing everyone else always sees and has already seen before. When you travel alone, you might miss things you would have enjoyed, but sometimes you find really cool little places, like this collection of bicycles and motorcycles in France. Christian Pelletier was motoring around and [...]

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It’s starting to seem like Harley Davidson and Apple may have something in common. What? Leather clad riders on their American made V-Twins blasting down the highway and trendy folks using their iPhones for, well, … just about everything, what could they have in common? OK, forget the people using their products, how about the [...]

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