Archive for 'Motorcycle Technology' Category
Honda Super Cub Gets Electronic Fuel Injection
13 February 2008Here’s something I would have never noticed without a tip from Tom, but the Honda 50 Super Cub, a motorcycle that last year 2 years ago went over the 50 million unit mark in numbers produced is adapting for the future by adding electronic fuel injection. I guess Honda figures this little workhorse, still sold [...]
Hydrostatic 2WD Motorcycle - Raccoon - Update
5 February 2008The Hydrostatic 2WD Raccoon is on the road, … um, make that on the trail. Jeff Parker finished the bike and took it out for a test ride which lasted for about 2 hours, it must work! The video even shows a few short moves in reverse. This looks like a fun and extremely [...]
Are Motorcycles the Future of Performance?
4 February 2008If you keep up on things automotive, you’re probably aware of the new CAFE standards recently passed which require auto manufacturers to have fleet fuel economy averages of 35 mpg by 2020. No sooner was the new standard on the books when many car companies began canceling or cutting back on future models already in [...]
Hydrostatic 2 Wheel Drive Motorcycle - Raccoon
1 February 2008Just got this photo from Jeff Parker, you know him, he’s the guy from Hydraulic Innovations who built the hydrostatic drive diesel motorcycle we covered last May. Well, Jeff is hard at work in the super secret hydraulic innovations skunk works and he’s almost finished with this hydrostatic 2WD motorcycle. Jeff calls it the Raccoon.
Can [...]
They Don’t Build Motorcycles Like They Used To
15 January 2008Do the best current motorcycles live up to the standards of old? Is a Honda or Harley in the dealer today, anything like those from years past?
20 years ago, the Edge Foundation gathered a group of thinkers and doers from a great many fields and each year asks a question of the assembled minds. The [...]
MotoGP Technology
14 December 2007MotoGP is like Formula One, extremely expensive, high tech and secret. Everyone wants to know what the other guys are doing but unless you’re part of the team, you only see the results on the track, the inner workings of the engine and chassis are kept under wraps.
When the allowed engine displacements were reduced from [...]
Harley Davidson Dynamic Exhaust System Patent
21 November 2007Harley Davidson is developing a dynamic exhaust system design that redirects exhaust gases depending on engine RPM and throttle opening. The exhaust system has 2 paths for the exhaust with a cable operated valve directed by a control unit sensing engine speed and throttle opening.
The valve operates to control the torque curve of the [...]
Suzuki Crosscage Photos from Tokyo
15 November 2007The Suzuki Crosscage was one of the more distant concept motorcycles on display at the Tokyo Motor Show. Powered by a fuel cell it is unlikely to see production in the near future but one never knows. It appears to have an electric motor at the rear wheel with the usual engine space taken up [...]
