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Owosso Pulse – Ground Cruising Recreational Vehicle

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Every now and then, a Bede BD-200 LiteStar or Owosso Pulse comes up for sale. This enclosed cabin vehicle was powered by a long series of different engines, from Honda 250 twins to Honda 750 fours, a Yamaha 400 like the one shown here all the way up to a Honda GL1100 flat four. Originally designed by aircraft designer Jim Bede, they had the same streamlined jet plane look of … [Read more...]

Stellan Egeland Builds a Slugger

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Watching your old motorcycle heading down the road with its new owner, you count the cash and stuff it in your pocket, you should be happy, right? Well, sometimes, not so much, especially when you remember what a great bike it was, so now what? Well, if you're Stellan Egeland after you just sold your Harrier, you build another one, only this time you decide to make it simpler, … [Read more...]

2011 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building Results

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The results are in for the 2011 AMD World Championship of Custom Bike Building held at Sturgis, SD, and looking over the winners, it's plain as day the world has changed dramatically from only a few years ago. The stretched out, fat tire bikes have given way to all sorts of bikes, visually radical to be sure, but often aimed at performance instead of static display and some … [Read more...]

Bimota V-Rod HDB2 Roadster from Oberdan Bezzi

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Oberdan Bezzi's most recent work shows a few variations on the Bimota theme and this one seems interesting, it's another possible mount for Harley Davidson's Revolution V-Twin, he calls it the HDB-2 Sport Roadster. Highly doubtful either the Motor Company or Bimota would go for a design like this, it doesn't fit the accepted ideas of what their brands are all about, but that's … [Read more...]

DARPA Driverless Vehicle Champ Will Teach You Artificial Intelligence for Free

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Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? It's been covered here on The Kneeslider several times when Ghostrider, the riderless motorcycle, was trying to qualify, it involved vehicles traversing a technically challenging course without any human intervention. Sebastian Thrun, who is director of the Stanford AI Lab, led the team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and went on to … [Read more...]