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GG Taurus – a 4 Cylinder BMW Reverse Trike from GG Technik of Switzerland

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If you remember the GG Quad mentioned here before then you'll immediately see the family resemblance in the Taurus. The GG (Grueter & Gut) Quad runs a BMW boxer engine, later evolving into the GG Quadster using the inline 4 from the BMW K1200S. I didn't notice their next logical step when they re-engineered the Quadster into a reverse trike, called the Taurus. I came across … [Read more...]

BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen – Review

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Veloce Publishing has a brand new book, BMW Custom Motorcycles by Uli Cloesen, and if you're on the lookout for some ideas to change the appearance or function of your Beemer, this is a fascinating selection of what's being done all over the world. Some of the bikes, you've seen before on The Kneeslider, but many, if not most, are new to me. I like a lot of what's in here, but … [Read more...]

Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe Sport – Would You Like a Fairing with Your Cafe?

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An unmistakable part of the cafe racer style is a fairing, nothing quite as confining and all enclosing like found on the average sport bike, but more minimal and sleek. Moto Guzzi, by introducing their V7 Classic and V7 Cafe, provided a perfect platform for just such an addition and quite a few owners were looking to bolt one up, if they could just find one. If you're one of … [Read more...]

A Bump in the Road

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With all of this nasty weather going on, tornadoes and flooding rivers here in the USA, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes elsewhere, most of us keep hoping it will pass right on by, but sometimes it doesn't. Our cold and very wet Spring saturating the ground put some water in places it shouldn't be. I'm a bit busy with things offline, but I'll be back as soon as possible … [Read more...]

Do It Yourself PulseJets from Robert Maddox

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Three years ago The Kneeslider showed you a pretty basic pulsejet powered bicycle Robert Maddox had for sale. As projects go, it was pretty neat and after our short article Bob started getting attention from everywhere, you might say things have been (ahem) buzzing for Bob ever since. Well, he's still at it, building more and bigger variations of these jets and strapping them … [Read more...]