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Gasoline From Carbon Dioxide – Fourth Generation Fuel

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If gasoline prices have you a little frustrated, there is a silver lining. As I said long ago, rising prices bring new technology. I came across this rather amazing article over the weekend about Craig Venter, the fellow who mapped the human genome, and who is now working on reengineering simple life forms to consume carbon dioxide and give off octane-based fuels as waste! Says … [Read more...]

Six Brittens at 25th Sound of Thunder Anniversary

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It isn't every day you see 6 Britten motorcycles lined up together, in fact, you simply never see that, period. Well, maybe just this once. Last weekend was the 25th anniversary meeting of the Sound of Thunder - BEARS racing (British European American Racing Society) in New Zealand. Tim, one of our Kiwi readers, mentioned the gathering in a comment on another post and I asked … [Read more...]

Roland Sands 450 SuperSingle

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We first mentioned Roland Sands' dirt bike based road racer last year and after several months of work it looks like they're almost ready for prime time. There are 3 versions, a Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki, each based on a 450cc dirt bike and then reskinned and reequipped for road racing. Sands will be offering the Yamaha as a complete ready to race motorcycle, the Honda and … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Custom Seat Program

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Harley Davidson has a new custom seat program where you design the seat online with different patterns, stitching, inlay materials and colors then take the print out to your dealer and order the seat. There's 800 possible combinations so there's a pretty good chance yours will be a little different or a lot different than the seat on your buddy's bike. It's a nice idea but … [Read more...]

Honda Ending Motorcycle Production in U.S.

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There will be one less company producing motorcycles in the U.S. next year as Honda plans to stop manufacturing motorcycles at its Marysville, Ohio facility and transfer production to Japan. Honda will focus efforts on its North American auto operations. Honda said there will be no layoffs when production ends in spring 2009. The workers will remain with the company, … [Read more...]