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Matt Hotch Vinnie – Vincent Powered Custom

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The last time I checked up on Matt Hotch, two time Biker Build Off champion, he had just built the V-Lux, a custom styled in the wide tire and chrome tradition that's been popular with builders for some time. Checking up again shows he's moved quite a distance away from the heavy chrome show bike style to this much, much more pleasing bike that looks like you could ride it all … [Read more...]

2007 Campagna T-Rex 1400

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The Campagna T-Rex has been getting a lot more press recently and now that they've dropped a 187 hp Kawasaki 1400cc engine in it, I can see why. The T-Rex is a three wheeler built in Quebec, Canada and they've gone through a few variations in the engine department, they even had a Harley Davidson V-twin in there some years back. The 1400 gives the T-Rex pretty crazy … [Read more...]

Muzzy Racing Kawasaki in NHRA Pro Stock

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After some major rules changes at the end of last year it looks like Rob Muzzy will be back with Kawasaki for the 2007 NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle drag racing season. They'll be campaigning a ZX-14 naturally so it will be interesting to see what they can do to these machines. Of course, Pro Stock does allow some pretty radical one off engines as long as they fit the displacement … [Read more...]

Do Motorcycles Have a Future?

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What is the future for motorcycles and motorcycling? I imagine this question gets tossed around on occasion in the boardrooms and design studios of motorcycle companies around the world, but I wonder how they answer it. Technology Life Cycles Technology has a life cycle from invention to maturity and finally supersedence by something else. Motorcycles were invented back … [Read more...]

Confederate Wraith Close to Production

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Confederate Motorcycles is getting very close to starting production of the Wraith. Brian Case, Confederate's chief of design, pointed me to an article in the LA Times where they ran prototype number four through a short road test. Although Confederate would have preferred using a production model, the Times was a bit impatient so the prototype was used instead with somewhat … [Read more...]