As the weather turns a bit chilly and you’re looking for an indoor hobby, how about building a motorcycle in your living room where it’s warm or maybe the spare bedroom? Before your significant other starts threatening to kick your butt out into that cold garage, explain it’s just a cardboard sculpture and besides, you’re [...]
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Sarah Lyon just let me know her 2009 Female Mechanics Calendar is available. I mention this every year because I think it’s a neat project. This is the 3rd year for the calendar showcasing real female mechanics, not the swimsuit clad babes with a wrench, these are women fixing everything from motorcycles to Ferraris to [...]
Ever look inside the gas tank of an old motorcycle and see nothing but rust? It’s really common and there are products out there to either get rid of the rust or supposedly coat and seal the tank. Well, maybe, but, since a chemical reaction caused it, why not reverse the whole process and really [...]
How many projects begin this way? You see something that looks cool and think, “I bet I could build one of those” and next thing you know you’re making sketches. Steve, a motorcyclist from Melbourne, Australia, watched a motorcycle dyno shootout and figured he could build his own dynamometer, how hard could it be? Well, [...]
There’s very little I can say about this. Take one Honda Gold Wing and turn it into a ground bound jet fighter, … kinda, sorta. He has the sound worked out pretty well, there’s a 12,000 rpm turbine inside with a microphone next to it, creating the illusion of a jet on the taxiway. He [...]
Sarah Lyon has the new 2008 Female Mechanics calendar finished and it’s for sale now on her website. We’ve covered the previous calendar where Sarah highlights female mechanics in many different industries, motorcyce mechanics for sure, but auto, aviation, truck and heavy equipment, too.
These calendars are not filled with Penthouse pinups holding an air wrench, [...]
Got a note from Pere Tarragó of Barcelona, Spain, he thought I might be interested in looking over his scale model motorcycles. I went to his website, took a quick look and slowed way down, this was something special.
Pere has been building scale model motorcycles for about 35 years, he’s been doing it professionally for [...]
There’s a workshop out in Menlo Park, California, TechShop, that runs a lot like a health club. They installed all of the high end equipment you would need to build most anything you can think of but would cost too much and take up too much space for the average person to buy. Then they [...]
