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Tucson Motorcycles V-Twin Racer

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Tucson Motorcycles of France has been working on a new motorcycle for racing against the other twins in Europe. Their plan is light weight and small dimensions to offset any power disadvantage when taking on the Ducatis, Buells and Aprilias raced in the big twin classes. Their first prototype, powered by an SV650 engine, has been out racing and served as a proof of concept … [Read more...]

The Kneeslider – Quick Notes

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If you visited The Kneeslider on Saturday using Internet Explorer, you may have had an error appear on your screen. This was happening all over the Internet to many thousands of websites using Sitemeter to track visitor count. They have since fixed their problem and everything is back to normal. I would have dealt with the issue, had I known about it, by removing Sitemeter … [Read more...]

Electronic Shift By Wire on Bicycles

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Every time I mention brake by wire, throttle by wire or anything by wire, there's a contingent of voices that just can't get their heads around the change. Here is another sign of control by wire in a place I wouldn't have thought about, bicycles. Shimano has introduced their full electronic shift by wire system for road bicycles. The derailleur is controlled by a stepper motor … [Read more...]

Revetec Engine Developments

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The Revetec engine was first mentioned on The Kneeslider over 3 years ago and there's been considerable progress since that time, the engine has been developed in many more configurations, as shown above, and in testing they've found it to have very high efficiency. Several of these could be adapted for motorcycle use, they have an X4 running in a rear engine … [Read more...]

Vintage Motorcycle Days 2008 Photos 2

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After posting some photos yesterday of the motorcycles assembled at Mid Ohio for Vintage Days, several commenters posted links to other sites with many more photos, so I'll leave those links and just post a few more photos here, in response to questions and a random selection of several more. The important point here is that there is no way to see all of the bikes that were … [Read more...]