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Earl Grey – a BMW Cafe from Urban Motor

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The older BMWs look pretty good when given the cafe treatment and there seems to be more efforts in that direction, Ritmo Sereno over in Japan does some nice work, but what about the Germans? After all, that's the home turf of the airhead, you might imagine a few builders in Germany would know their way around the older twins and you would be right. Urban Motor, located in … [Read more...]

BOTT XR-1 Progress Continues with Chassis Design

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David Sánchez sent me an update on the BOTT XR-1 project. The chassis design is finished, they've built the jig and they're beginning to weld the first unit. Because of the positive response to their initial renderings, they have decided to go ahead with the creation of a kit so you'll be able to take a Buell XB and transform it into your very own BOTT XR-1. The frame was … [Read more...]

Hydrogen Microbeads May Provide Practical Vehicle Fuel Storage Solution

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Hydrogen is another one of those "just around the corner" technologies for powering all of our vehicles. You can use it to run a fuel cell or burn it directly in an internal combustion engine. Either way works, but almost every solution requires high pressure cylinders or very low temperatures to store it before use which makes vehicle applications difficult. A new development … [Read more...]

Secret French Motorcycle Museum

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Traveling with a group of tourists, you see the same thing everyone else always sees and has already seen before. When you travel alone, you might miss things you would have enjoyed, but sometimes you find really cool little places, like this collection of bicycles and motorcycles in France. Christian Pelletier was motoring around and came across this museum off the beaten path … [Read more...]

Do Harley Davidson and Apple Computer Have Something in Common?

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It's starting to seem like Harley Davidson and Apple may have something in common. What? Leather clad riders on their American made V-Twins blasting down the highway and trendy folks using their iPhones for, well, ... just about everything, what could they have in common? OK, forget the people using their products, how about the companies? One company cutting costs and barely … [Read more...]