Archive for 'Alternative thinking' Category
Pulsejet Powered Bicycle
14 May 2008Feeling depressed because you can’t afford a turbine motorcycle? Don’t despair, you can have a pulsejet bicycle instead. It may not be quite as impressive but if you tell folks you have a jet bike without giving them too many details, they’ll think you’re a real rocketman.
Robert Maddox builds pulsejet engines. Pulsejets, for […]
EFuel100 MicroFueler - Home Ethanol Micro Refinery
9 May 2008With gasoline rapidly becoming a luxury item, the EFuel100 MicroFueler might be just the ticket. You just set this up next to your garage, plug into 110 or 220 volts, route to a wastewater drain, add sugar, yeast and water and in a couple of days you pump ethanol into your tank at a cost […]
Nucleus - Alternative Fuel Concept Motorcycle
9 May 2008This is what the designer, Branko Lukic, calls the nUCLEUS, an alternative fuel motorbike concept. He thinks motorcycles shouldn’t mimic one another but instead should do things differently. His nUCLEUS (Why do designers write like they hit the caps lock?) is a “square against the air” which looks like a slab from the side but […]
The Uno - Parallel Wheel Electric Motorcycle
26 April 200818-year-old Canadian, Ben J. Poss Gulak, has always done a lot of tinkering, model trains, rockets, that sort of thing, but the Uno, is something else entirely. The Uno, is a parallel wheel, electric motorcycle that operates like a Segway, lean forward to go forward, lean backwards to go in reverse. Ben unveiled his creation […]
Motorcycle Powered Hydrostatic Drive Racecar
11 February 2008As long as we’re discussing hydrostatic drive around here with the diesel hydrostatic drive motorcycle and a 2WD hydrostatic trail bike, how about a hydrostatic drive race car? Bob Horn sent in this link showing some design work done by students at Aston University in England.
As part of a project called the Global Design Initiative […]
Honda Gold Wing Jet Fighter
17 January 2008There’s very little I can say about this. Take one Honda Gold Wing and turn it into a ground bound jet fighter, … kinda, sorta. He has the sound worked out pretty well, there’s a 12,000 rpm turbine inside with a microphone next to it, creating the illusion of a jet on the taxiway. He […]
How About Some Real Motorcycle Innovation?
4 January 2008Picture this, your buddies are dragging knees and pushing hard on their favorite canyon road, the familiar sound of inline 4 cylinder engines in everyone’s ears, then all of a sudden you’re there, no one heard you approach from behind and all they hear now is a bit of a high pitched whine. You’re […]
Tilting V-Max Trike by Tilting Motor Works
20 November 2007Bob Mighell of Stanwood, WA set out to build a machine safer than a two wheeler that could still carve the turns like a bike. He rolls out his latest version at the Cycle World show in Seattle on November 30.
After years of trials with an ‘underpowered’ proof of concept machine, a three-wheeled Honda Rebel […]
