May 2011

BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen – Review

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/31/2011

in Motorcycle Books

Veloce Publishing has a brand new book, BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen, and if you’re on the lookout for some ideas to change the appearance or function of your Beemer, this is a fascinating selection of what’s being done all over the world. Some of the bikes, you’ve seen before on The Kneeslider, but [...]

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An unmistakable part of the cafe racer style is a fairing, nothing quite as confining and all enclosing like found on the average sport bike, but more minimal and sleek. Moto Guzzi, by introducing their V7 Classic and V7 Cafe, provided a perfect platform for just such an addition and quite a few owners were [...]

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A Bump in the Road

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/25/2011

in Kneeslider

With all of this nasty weather going on, tornadoes and flooding rivers here in the USA, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes elsewhere, most of us keep hoping it will pass right on by, but sometimes it doesn’t. Our cold and very wet Spring saturating the ground put some water in places it shouldn’t be. I’m a [...]

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Do It Yourself PulseJets from Robert Maddox

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 5/22/2011

in Engines, Workshop & Tools

Three years ago The Kneeslider showed you a pretty basic pulsejet powered bicycle Robert Maddox had for sale. As projects go, it was pretty neat and after our short article Bob started getting attention from everywhere, you might say things have been (ahem) buzzing for Bob ever since. Well, he’s still at it, building more [...]

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