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Triumph Featured Marque for AMA Vintage Days 2008

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Triumph motorcycles will be the featured marque for the 2008 edition of Vintage Motorcycle Days, to be held July 25th-27th at the Mid Ohio Sports Car Course in Lexington, Ohio. Vintage Days are always enjoyable, you can see more vintage bikes in one place over those days than you'll find almost anywhere else. There is also going to be a special display of pre-1980 cafe … [Read more...]

Yamaha XS-V1 Sakura for Tokyo Motor Show

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Yamaha keeps rolling out the concepts for the Tokyo Motor Show and the XS-V1 Sakura follows the same retro line as the Honda concepts revealed a short time ago. The press release is long on philosophy and short on detail but the Sakura looks like a nice throwback to a standard motorcycle. From the Yamaha press release: We display the “XS-V1 Sakura” (special … [Read more...]

V-Rage Reverse Rotating V-Twin – 2 Speed Automatic

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While on Mark van der Kwaak's site looking at the Harton, I also noticed a photo of the V-Rage, an interesting bike with a 147" Engenuity reverse rotating engine and 2 speed automatic transmission by Bertrand Dubet. The ergonomics are not very rider friendly but I thought the engine and transmission combination was pretty interesting. Hmm, a custom with an automatic … [Read more...]

Harton by Mark van der Kwaak

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Mark van der Kwaak is working on another very cool design. The bike shown here is what he calls the Harton (doesn't sound as cool as Nortley Fartster, perhaps, but it makes sense), a Harley Evo powerplant in a Norton featherbed style frame. Starting with the rake, trail and wheelbase of a Triumph Speed Triple he then takes a Harley Davidson Evolution V-Twin, uses 2 front … [Read more...]

S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration and Bike Build

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S&S has just announced the builder and sponsor list for their 50th Anniversary Bike Build running in conjunction with the S&S 50th Anniversary Celebration. This looks good, ... really good. Using engines from across the S&S line will be 50 builders from all around the world, all the usual suspects will be involved, from the U.S custom builders you would expect to see to … [Read more...]