Have a favorite racetrack? Want a subtle way of letting everyone know where your head’s at? Racetrack Style makes stainless steel zipper pulls, earrings and keyring pendant/bottle openers in the outline of various tracks around the world, just so you can show a little of your inner speed. The company was started by Doug Staab, [...]
Motorcycle Racing
Having attended a Tony Foale seminar in the past, I can vouch for the in depth technical content presented over two days. Tony has not had a seminar in the US in quite some time and he just sent out a note to say he is planning one for April 19th and 20th in the [...]
Here’s another example of innovation in the motorcycle design world, a single Moto2 racer design ready for today but with the capability of using multiple engines. Three engineers with considerable motorcycle design experience, Juan Manuel Navarro and José Ángel Sánchez, formerly of Yamaha Spain, along with Josep Losantos, formed a company in 2004 called Arianetech, [...]
The previous post about the Moto2 suspension project brought a link in the comments leading to Cosentino Engineering, where Chris Consentino is building a Moto2 bike based around a 600cc V4 engine, built from scratch, along with a new frame, girder front suspension, swingarm and everything else. Of course, there’s a problem, Moto2 rule makers [...]
