The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Suzuki B-King Coming to US

By

Suzuki recently announced the long awaited B-King would be going into production as a 2007 model. As with so many recent announcements, it had the qualifier "not for the U.S." added to the news release. With that in mind, I just decided to ignore the whole thing, it's a story that gets old and reporting on bikes for everyone but us is frustrating. This bike, if you're not … [Read more...]

Team MOMBA Swap Meet Superbike

By

Building a racing motorcycle can be a great way to spend a lot of money, sometimes with little to show for it in the end if you're not careful and that's why it was interesting to see the Team MOMBA (Mid Ohio Motorcycle Build Attempt) project. I had heard of this quite a few months ago and forgot about it until the November issue of Motorcyclist magazine came out with a feature … [Read more...]

Electric Motorcycle from Derbi GPR 50

By

There's a growing group of homebuilders who are converting vehicles of all sorts to electric power, motorcycles among them. This motorcycle is a Derbi GPR 50 where the builder removed the original drivetrain and installed 6 lead acid batteries, an electric motor and a DC converter. The video is a short walk around of the bike and then a ride around the neighborhood. The … [Read more...]

New Harley Davidson XR1200

By

Harley Davidson held a press conference at Intermot over in Cologne, Germany and showed their new XR1200 Sportster. The boys over at Raptors and Rockets linked to some pics which show a very flat track style Sporty with enough ground clearance to lean over quite a ways without dragging and grinding anything. According to HD, it has downdraft fuel injection, electronically … [Read more...]

New Kawasaki Concours – 2008 Concours 14

By

The Kawasaki Concours has a couple of things in common with the Yamaha Vmax, it's been around essentially unchanged almost forever (introduced in 1986) and it has a very dedicated following of owners who absolutely love it. This year, though, Kawasaki finally decided to bring the bike into the 21st century and they are introducing the Concours 14 and Concours 14 ABS as 2008 … [Read more...]