Archive for 'Idle hands' Category
Honda 600 Barstool Racer
14 April 2007Too much time and beer leads to this, a Honda 600 4 cylinder installed in a barstool racer. We’ve all seen these little machines but the engines are usually something of the Briggs and Stratton variety, this little beast has gone a step further, well actually it’s gone completely over the top but when you [...]
Rocket Bike Powered by Roofing Tar
26 January 2006Now that we have guys building rockets like SpaceShipOne, everyone’s getting into the rocket powered game. Tim Pickens happens to be a rocket designer with Orion Propulsion and he got the bug to strap on some thrust but all he had available was a bicycle, so he was off to the garage and wheeled out [...]
Ducati 3D Extreme Motorcycle Mobile Phone Game
26 January 2006Ducati has something to keep those reflexes sharp during the cold weather, a little racing action for your mobile phone, Ducati 3D Extreme. I’ll have to get the reviews from someone else, though, my fingers don’t work that fast on tiny buttons.
Press release follows:
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GixxerKart - GSX-R powered go kart
10 October 2005This has evidently been floating around for some time but I just came aross this link over the weekend. Looks like a fellow over in Germany has taken a racing kart and added a bit more power in the form of a 1988 GSX-R 1100 engine with 115hp, the GixxerKart. There’s a video of the [...]
Yamaha paper motorcycle models
30 July 2005Want your own 50th anniversary edition of the Yamaha MotoGP bike? Yamaha will give you one, sort of, at the Yamaha papercraft site. You can download a paper foldup model and build it yourself. Want a V-Max or an R1? You can have one. These look very cool. You might figure those folks from the [...]
Home made jet engines
19 February 2005This post has little to do with motorcycles but I think it’s a great example of what a creative tool guy can do in his shop. Mark Nye has a business building attachments for heavy equipment, a good business, pays the bills and keeps him in enough tools and shop equipment to enable him to [...]
Make Magazine finally arrives
15 February 2005Way back here I mentioned the upcoming release of Make Magazine, devoted to those of us who like tools and taking things apart and finding out how stuff works and most importantly, how to build neat new things to solve some problem or just to see if we could. My first issue finally arrived yesterday. [...]
You’ll hurt yourself
6 September 2004What do you do with time, a workshop and a jet engine? Let’s see, airplane? No, lots of those. Car? Nope. Motorcycle? Been done. Wait, I know!
