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Motorcycle Builders – Bob Horn

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Bob Horn sent in a couple of photos of a motorcycle he built back in 1991. As soon as I saw them, I knew I'd seen them before and, sure enough, the bike was featured in Motorcyclist magazine in October of that year. The bike you're looking at is Bob's proof of concept for some ideas he had about motorcycle steering and suspension and rather than getting into long winded debates … [Read more...]

Confederate Motorcycles Photo Gallery

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Confederate Motorcycles just put up a photo gallery of images, showing their F131 Hellcat and B120 Wraith set against the stark backdrop of the Sloss Furnaces. The black and white images are just right for the carbon fiber and metal structure of their bikes, nice imagery. Not the sort of thing you would see with a GSXR in the foreground or a rider in full leather racing suit. … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – Bottpower

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The Bottpower Project is so named because the builders liked the concept of the Battle of the Twins race series from some years back. The BOTT 1000 Morlaco, their current project, is powered by a Honda 954cc Fireblade engine and incorporates a Hossack-style front suspension mounted on a trellis type frame. Hugo Van Waaijen, industrial designer on the project and in charge … [Read more...]

Vietnam Increasing Motorcycle Exports

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Another SE Asian country looking to ramp up motorcycle exports is Vietnam. We've written about the Vietnamese scooter rebuilding companies trying to make a name for themselves with varying degrees of success, but Vietnam is moving into building and exporting brand new motorcycles, too. It's not a big industry yet, but you can be sure it will be. They're aiming at $300 million … [Read more...]

Monotrack Experimental by Dan Hanebrink

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Came across this photo a while back and thought you might like to see some original thinking in the motorcycle design field, this is the Monotrack Experimental built back in the early seventies by Dan Hanebrink. The description on the Hanebrink site (no longer there) pretty much sums it up: In 1971 "Cycle News" publisher Chuck Clayton asked Costa Mesa, California … [Read more...]