October 2011

Got a note from Randy Martin with a few photos of a Ducati Monster he’s just rebuilt, or should I say, reframed. Randy opened StradaFab, a fab shop for building titanium frames and carbon fiber parts. He found a 3 year old Monster S4RS with just 600 miles for his first project, so it hardly [...]

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Buy One Motorcycle Then Keep It Forever

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 10/28/2011

in Vintage Motorcycles

Did you ever buy a motorcycle and seriously think you could keep it forever? Did you ever come back from a ride and realize your bike was just about perfect, it did everything you asked, it felt right, looked good, had a real space for a passenger and wasn’t built as a special purpose track [...]

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Polaris is on a roll. Their own multi-line ATV, snowmobile and motorcycle business is doing very well, they’ve taken on Indian Motorcycles and now they’ve invested in Brammo. All of those Brammo customers who have been waiting for their Empulse to arrive may finally see some light at the end of the tunnel. As the [...]

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Vmax HyperModified

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 10/26/2011

in Motorcycle Builders

This looks like it could get really interesting. Roland Sands, Marcus Walz and Ludovic Lazareth are building what is called, Vmax Hyper Modified, scheduled to be introduced at EICMA next month. We all know what these guys are capable of, the idea of turning them loose on a new Vmax seems like the right thing [...]

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