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Online motorcycle sales improve motorcycle quality

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Ebay Motors makes motorcycles better! How do they do that? Think about it. When you stroll into your local dealer looking at all of the jazzy new models, you consider everything, how it looks, how it handles, horsepower, speed, you know, all of the important things that get your juices flowing. Then you look at the price tag and wonder if your wallet can handle it. But it's not … [Read more...]

Honda Innovation in Motorcycles – no surprise

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Have you seen ASIMO? Honda's humanoid robot is constantly improving and they just came out with an upgrade that makes the little guy oh so helpful. He can perform the duties of receptionist, museum guide and deliver your coffee or various office supplies. Helpful, cute and almost a little, hmm..., what's the word I'm looking for, a little creepy. I'm not sure we're ready for an … [Read more...]

Rapid prototypes and computer graphics

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"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." said Napolean Hill, author of many success books in the 20th century like his best known, "Think and Grow Rich." I've always liked that quote, and, though he wasn't referring to computer technology, which didn't exist at that time, were he alive today to see it, he might be writing about it now. When I … [Read more...]

Victory Vision 800cc parallel twin automatic concept

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Polaris, well known for ATVs and their Victory cruiser line, came to the Long Beach motorcycle show loaded with something a bit outside their usual lineup. Taking an 800cc parallel twin from an ATV, they built the Vision, a concept bike that looks like nothing I've ever seen. The bike uses a CVT type transmission and shaft drive on a single sided swingarm. There are no foot … [Read more...]

Rapid prototypes

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Rapid prototyping is a relatively new engineering process where some very interesting work is going on. The fab labs we spoke of earlier do rapid prototyping using printers that build up 3 dimensional objects, one thin layer at a time. Some of the objects they build can't really be made any other way but one of the things you couldn't do with the process was build anything that … [Read more...]