Archive for 'Motorcycle Builders' Category
World’s Fastest 50cc Motorcycle Project
4 November 2008A Real Machine
Eric Manning is one of those guys who are driven to make something real and tangible. He’s a guy I know personally, and I am privileged to have the opportunity to shed some light on his recent project. I felt a formal interview would be the best way to get Eric’s ideas across [...]
REDZ Motorcycle Company Japanese Customs
31 October 2008Another custom builder just popped up on our radar, it’s REDZ Motorcycle Company over in The Netherlands. Remember Bratstyle? Well REDZ builds custom bikes along those lines, based on the Yamaha SR400/SR500/TW200, the Kawasaki W400/W650 and other small displacement Japanese bikes. They also offer all of the parts you might need to put one of [...]
Paramount Buell SASS Bicycle For Sale
29 October 2008Not too many folks (other than real Buell fans) know that Erik Buell worked on a bicycle project with Schwinn Bicycles back in 1991. Chris Fiorini, a product designer at Schwinn’s Paramount Design Group, wanted to design a mountain bike for downhill racing with long travel suspension. He contacted Buell because he had heard about [...]
Ducati XR900 Bevel Drive Street Tracker
29 October 2008Peter Koren, a Ducati enthusiast from the UK, found a 1978 Ducati 900GTS as a parts bike for his 750GT and 900SS. Looking a bit more at the old GTS, it wasn’t as bad as he thought so instead of using the pieces he figured, “Why not fix it up?” It was past the restoration [...]
Bad Dog 215 Cubic Inch V-Twin
28 October 2008Are you one of those guys who feels there’s just no substitute for cubic inches? Well, Bill Price thought you might like to know he’s designing an engine for you, it’s called the Bad Dog 215, as in 215 cubic inches. The sixty-degree air-and-oil-cooled 4-valve DOHC semi-unit 3500cc engine has a 6 inch bore and [...]
Moto Engineering Foundation MotoStudent Competition
28 October 2008The Moto Engineering Foundation (MEF) has started the MotoStudent competition in Spain aimed at university students, where their goal is to design and build motorcycles leading to a competition against students from Spanish and other European universities and eventually worldwide. The students will use their engineering skills to build motorcycles under the real restrictions of [...]
IRS1000 Tilting Reverse Trike
24 October 2008Two years ago when the Piaggio MP3 was getting all of the attention as the new tilting 3 wheeler, lots of other companies were trying to adapt the technology for use on motorcycles. Harley Davidson had their idea, the Brudeli Leanster showed up and more recently, Tilting Motor Works put a 2 wheel front end [...]
D1200R - BMW Based Concept Motorcycle
22 October 2008Every now and then, one of the many emails we receive from designers and builders stands out from the crowd, and this project, the BMW D1200R by Pablo Gonzalez de Chaves and Carlos Beltran, is one of the best to come along in quite some time.
Pablo started with the idea of improving and transforming the [...]
