Around 1937, Dale Drake, who was later to become instrumental in developments to the Offenhauser racing engine, began working on a 2 cylinder engine for midget racers. He began with an air cooled opposed twin but eventually took a Harley Davidson Knucklehead engine and installed water cooled cylinders. The result was an 89 cubic inch V-twin that was 10 percent smaller than the … [Read more...]
MZ Motorcycles Scheduled to Close This Year
MZ Motorcycles (Motorcycle Works Zschopau), the long standing but now long troubled motorcycle manufacturer from East Germany will be closing its doors at the end of this year. Hong Leong Industries, which has owned the company since 1996 has been incurring losses on the MZ operation since that time. According to the Freie Presse newspaper from the nearby city of Chemnitz, MZ … [Read more...]
Rocketshields – Detachable Sportbike Canopy
Given the rising price of gasoline and more people commuting on their motorcycles to save a little money, why not turn your sportbike into an all weather commuter? With Rocketshields, the detachable sportbike hardtop canopy, you can do just that. You've seen similar canopies on scooters, here's one for your full size motorcycle, in this case a Kawasaki Ninja. Blast down the … [Read more...]
Harley Davidson Buying MV Agusta?
There was talk a while back about Harley and Ducati getting cozy, looks like another Italian marque is in their sights. Forbes Magazine is reporting that Harley Davidson is in advanced talks to buy Italy's MV Agusta! the deal would see Harley-Davidson buy out most of the debt of MV Agusta, currently at around 200 million euros -- 130 million euros held by banks and 70 … [Read more...]
R1 with Girder Front Suspension – Update
The start of summer is around the bend which means for some builders another winter project is getting close to completion. Jason Rodman sent us an update on his very cool girder project. The impressive aluminum, arc’d design is carried out with excellent machining. During the intial mockup, RMD and Jason found proper trail numbers could not be achieved using the original … [Read more...]
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