Motorcycle Design

How About a V-Rod Glide?

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 6/21/2011

in Motorcycle Business, Motorcycle Design

In the comments on the post about the water cooled Harley Davidson heads, one of our readers, todd8080, pointed to a few Photoshop images he put together with the Revolution engine in a variety of other big Harleys. Though the Harley faithful might object they certainly look good to me. I wonder if any of [...]

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An unmistakable part of the cafe racer style is a fairing, nothing quite as confining and all enclosing like found on the average sport bike, but more minimal and sleek. Moto Guzzi, by introducing their V7 Classic and V7 Cafe, provided a perfect platform for just such an addition and quite a few owners were [...]

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David Sánchez sent me an update on the BOTT XR-1 project. The chassis design is finished, they’ve built the jig and they’re beginning to weld the first unit. Because of the positive response to their initial renderings, they have decided to go ahead with the creation of a kit so you’ll be able to take [...]

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Oberdan Bezzi Does a McDeeb Hurricane

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 4/18/2011

in Motorcycle Design

We’re big fans of the McDeeb Royal Enfield conversions and it looks like their transformations have sparked a few ideas in the mind of Oberdan Bezzi as well. I see he’s taken the concept and created a mashup of a Triumph Hurricane with Royal Enfield power, he calls it the McDeeb American Roadster. In fact, [...]

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