Gasoline prices are heading north again with a vengeance and the US government seems to be dragging its feet on oil drilling, demand for oil is rising around the world, especially in China, several wars are going on in the middle east along with all sorts of general unrest in that region, don’t you think [...]
Alternative Fuels
You’ve seen these before, but every now and then one turns up for sale and I just have to point it out because it so outrageous. Forget razor sharp handling or long range touring, think instead of listening to a jet engine spooling up every time you initiate the starting sequence. Have a really long [...]
Electric motorcycles are very clean vehicles, they give off zero emissions, but every time I write about them someone is sure to point out the power came from a generating station which is itself, not so clean. The problem isn’t eliminated, it was just moved. Suppose you could recharge your bike at home with fuel [...]
Matthew Perez, a Mechanical Operations Technician for the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, sent me some details of a design he’s working on, he was a little tired of seeing only electric motorcycles when someone mentioned alternative fuels and he thought he would come up with something that would carry him back and forth to work, [...]
