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4 Valve Hemi Heads for Harley Big Twin Engines

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Revolution Performance Motors has introduced the RPMHemi 4 valve heads for the Evo V-twin and early Twin Cam engines, Twin Cam EFI kits are currently being tested and will be available soon. If someone asks, "That thing got a hemi?" just install these heads and you can say yes. Sweet! The heads bolt directly on to the stock engine, the only changes required are valve clearance … [Read more...]

Yamaha R1 Girder Front Suspension

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Girder front suspensions are pretty much as old as motorcycles and you see them on custom bikes all the time but not very often on sportbikes. This Yamaha R1 streetfighter from R1 Engineering is being fitted with a girder setup and it looks pretty neat. There's no reason this shouldn't work great and it will be interesting to see the finished bike. Thanks for the tip, … [Read more...]

Salt Dreams – a Film by JT Nesbitt

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J.T. Nesbitt, formerly of Confederate Motorcycles and now of Bienville Studios in New Orleans, went to the salt flats and made a documentary. A new, just finished film, details the efforts of The New Orleans Race Team to rebuild a 1998 Lincoln Mark 8, damaged by the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina, turn it into a Bonneville racer and make some serious speed. The "Stinkin … [Read more...]

Kinematic Models – Mechanisms in Motion

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Most of you are probably interested in all things mechanical, not just motorcycles, the term gearhead is a badge of honor around here. With that in mind, you might want to check out the kinematic models website at Cornell University. The site has a lot of photos and diagrams of every sort of mechanical movement you can think of, anything that moves, usually while connected to … [Read more...]

Blastard by GS Motor Company

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Over the last few days we've been talking about all of the small displacement motorcycles being imported and modified in countries all over the world, except in the USA. Well, there is a small displacement affordable bike available for modification here, the 500cc Buell Blast and Greg Socha's GS Motor Company has one example of what you might do with it, it's called the … [Read more...]