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Harley Davidson Adventure Tour Lets You Try Out the Brand New Pan America

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The new Harley Davidson Pan America 1250 is quite a change from the usual fare found in the Motor Company's dealer showrooms and it introduces a new engine as well, the Revolution Max 1250. Some of you are probably wondering what it looks like up close and personal and you might even want to try it out on the road. Well, Harley is thinking the same thing, so they've set up the … [Read more...]

Bottpower XR9 Carbona Kit Adds Racer Style to the Yamaha XSR900 and MT09

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Bottpower, you remember them, they designed the XR-1 kit to transform a Buell XB with a flat track look. Well, it looks like they turned their attention and design skills in the direction of Yamaha's XSR900 and MT09 and came up with the XR9 Carbona kit and it looks mean, nasty and fast and that's in a good way. It's quite a transformation. You don't need to do the entire … [Read more...]

Triumph Motorcycles Reveals TE-1 Electric Prototype Design

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Project Triumph TE-1, which began in 2019, is the company's move into developing their own electric motorcycle along with all of the related technology necessary for an electric lineup in the future. They've now revealed the powertrain and battery plus sketches of the prototype's design which draws from current models like their Street Triple. It looks good, very … [Read more...]

Are the Pan America and Bronx the Rebirth of Harley Davidson’s Project Overlord?

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Quite a few years ago, we wrote about Project Overlord, a secret effort by Harley Davidson to develop a whole family of motorcycles designed around a brand new V4 engine. From the look of the 3D model of one of the planned bikes it would have been a radical departure from anything the Motor Company had produced up to that point. The project was killed under Keith Wandell's … [Read more...]

Fascinating Motorcycle Design Similarities

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Digging through The Kneeslider archives while looking for something else, I came across an article you may remember about Lotus Motorcycles. Daniel Simon, a digital artist who does absolutely stunning work, created the design and it was written about all over the web at the time, around 2013 or so. Unlike many design concepts, some of these were actually built and I found one … [Read more...]