The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Large Part of Vintage Superbike Collection For Sale

By

If you're looking for a 70s era muscle bike, you may have an opportunity to pick up one, or more, in what seems to be showroom condition. The seller describes them as "mint," a word so overused, often when the bike is nothing of the sort, you might roll your eyes, but these look like they live up to that description. Some of the bikes listed so far are a 1979 Honda CBX, a 1972 … [Read more...]

Vintage Motorcycle Tributes and Clones

By

Look through the ads for collector cars and you'll see lots and lots of tributes and clones, cars that, at first glance, look like the special model everyone wants, but are really just a common base model with the right pieces added. Regular Mustangs become Shelby GT500 tributes or an old Pontiac LeMans becomes a GTO clone. Happens all the time, but with motorcycles, almost … [Read more...]

Yamaha OR2T 4 Wheel Leaning Motorcycle Concept

By

If there was any doubt Yamaha is devoting engineering resources to the idea of leaning multi wheel vehicles, this should erase those thoughts, it's the OR2T, a 4 wheel leaning motorcycle concept, based on the Tesseract leaning 4 wheeler from 2007. It looks like a well developed test bed for finding out how it works on the road and getting feedback for further … [Read more...]

Honda Neowing Leaning Three Wheeler Concept

By

Honda is also joining the leaning three wheeler concept competition with the Neowing, unveiled at the Tokyo Motor Show. If both Honda and Yamaha are showing these concepts to the public, you can bet the showroom versions are coming in the not too distant future. The Neowing has an opposed flat four engine plus electric motors for some sort of hybrid drive system. If Honda puts … [Read more...]

Yamaha Leaning Multi Wheeler MWT-9

By

Ever since Piaggio dropped their MP3 on the scooter market some nine years ago, many of us were wondering how long it would be before some company took the tilting 3 wheeler idea and attached it to a sport bike. Lots of home brew projects started popping up in garages and even Harley had their stillborn Penster, but why not something with some real performance possibilities? … [Read more...]