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2011 Roundup – Significant Events in the Motorcycle Business This Year

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Among the stories of 2011, there were a few events in the motorcycle business I thought were significant. Will these continue to be big news in the future? Motus MST first showing at Pratt and Miller Engineering Introduction of the Motus MST This past March, Motus introduced the MST and MST-R, the all new, from the ground up, American made "comfortable sport … [Read more...]

Learn About Life and Modify Your Brain by Working with Your Hands

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Your toolbox filled with wrenches and screwdrivers, if regularly used, can make you a better thinker. Manipulating mechanical objects, turning them around, fitting pieces together and watching the parts move, will exercise and expand your brain in ways your non-mechanical friends can't imagine because it anchors you to the real world, where things either work or they don't, … [Read more...]

The Kneeslider Sampler – Some of Our Signature Items from Months and Years Past

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If you stop at a new restaurant and can't decide what to order, you'll sometimes find a sampler on the menu, a selection of some of their signature items combined in one order so you get the flavor of their particular style. Well, that's not a bad idea for a website. Though lots of our most popular individual posts are listed in the sidebar, some of the best, our signature … [Read more...]

English Builders and Their Amazing Little Sheds

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Remember those English sheds referenced in this recent article? For many of us in the USA, even that single car garage we say is too confining for serious work would be pretty spacious compared to what our friends in the UK often have to work with. A couple days ago I was going through the thread on the Performance Bikes forum detailing the Kwikasfaki build up. Cabbie, as the … [Read more...]

Mule Motorcycles Interview and Video

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Richard Pollock of Mule Motorcycles, one of our favorite builders, was interviewed recently and gives us a very interesting look at the man behind those beautiful street trackers. Along with the interview is a short, but well done video to give you a flavor of Richard's ideas and what he's like when at work in his garage shop. Not surprisingly, it's quite a contrast to the slam … [Read more...]