Motorcycle manufacturers have introduced ABS and traction control, dual clutches, variable valve timing and lots of other interesting technology, but one thing we haven’t seen yet is night vision. If you’re a rider like Darren Haley and you work for FLIR, a company that makes a lot of thermal imaging equipment for the military, police [...]
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After the post on Chris Flechtner’s Speed Shop Special #6, Jim Gianatsis, who took those great photos of Chris’ bike, wanted to remind me the calendars that spun off the LA Calendar show, are 20 years old now and still going strong! Has it been that long? I admit, I’ve had more than a few [...]
Shortly after we mentioned the project by the University of Minnesota students to design and build landing wheels for paraplegic riders, I got a note from Michael at GoodGuys Powersports who told me there is a similar product, called LegUp LandingGear, already available commercially for full size Harley Davidson touring bikes. It’s a pushbutton and [...]
Here’s a project built by “Team Motorcycle,” students at the University of Minnesota, they added landing wheels for a motorcycle that is coming to a stop, enabling a paraplegic to ride a two wheeler.
Ryan sent me a note:
The bike was designed for Scott Tyson, a paraplegic of 15 years following a motorcycle accident. [...]
The BMW R1200GS is one of BMW’s really popular models, functional in both capabilities and looks. BMW customers like it a lot, but, there’s no reason you can’t make a few modifications and rework the functional appearance a bit, so, Machineart Industrial Design did just that, creating bodywork a bit lighter, smoother and smaller, it [...]
Randall Washington, of Randakk’s Cycle Shakk, is announcing his newly available 4 into 4 megaphone exhaust system for the Honda GL1000. The original Wings have an enthusiastic following and when the Hondas are properly set up they make a pretty nice vintage ride. Randakk’s has quite a selection of parts and pieces and this exhaust [...]
Steve Storz sent some photos the other day of the parts and pieces he’s offering for the new Harley Davidson XR1200. Steve has been building the Storz XR1200 for many years, taking the basic Sportster and turning it into a street tracker that mimicked the look of the old XR750. Harley acquired the XR1200 name [...]
You may remember the story we had a while back about the VFR800 with the homebuilt supercharger. It was one of those projects that started innocently enough and just kept growing. Well, Jon, from over at the VFR Discussion forum, let me know that project has become a complete bolt on kit you can buy [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
