The Kneeslider

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How About Some Real Motorcycle Innovation?

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Picture this, your buddies are dragging knees and pushing hard on their favorite canyon road, the familiar sound of inline 4 cylinder engines in everyone's ears, then all of a sudden you're there, no one heard you approach from behind and all they hear now is a bit of a high pitched whine. You're riding an electric! Then someone else swoops in, this time the sound is deeper … [Read more...]

Flexible Tilting Sidecars

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Tilting 3 wheelers received a lot of attention last year, with the Piaggio MP3, the Brudeli 625, the Harley tilting trike patent, the tilting Vmax and several others I haven't mentioned. The one thing I had not seen was a sidecar with a tilting wheel and, as it turns out, the idea for tilting sidecars has been around for a long time. Back in the early 1920s, dirt track … [Read more...]

Robbie Maddison Sets New Motorcycle Jump record

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Starting out the new year with a motorcycle jump record, Robbie Maddison of Australia made a leap of 322 feet, 7 1/2 inches at the Rio Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas. Although I don't follow this sort of thing, reports say it's double what the late Evel Knievel managed in his career. Maddison plans to double even this new record and wants to build a special jump motorcycle … [Read more...]

The Kneeslider – Happy Holidays 2007

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Another year winding down, ... Wow, already? I'm a little out of breath and like every year at this time, I have to slow down a bit. The increasing traffic makes me feel really good, we must be doing something right but it's tiring, too. During this last week or so before the new year, besides all of the holiday activities, I'll be cleaning up the site, fixing some … [Read more...]

Indy Mile Flat Track Motorcycle Race Returns in 2008

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The Indy Mile will run again at the Indiana State Fairgrounds in 2008, the night before the Indianapolis GP race. The Indy Mile hasn't run since 1999 and what a perfect time to bring it back when so many will be in attendance for the MotoGP. Flat Track is about as American as it gets in motorcycle racing yet it doesn't get the coverage of many other racing formats nor is it … [Read more...]