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Honda DN-01 automatic sports cruiser

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Honda is introducing their DN-01 concept motorcycle at the Tokyo Motor Show. It's powered by a water cooled 680cc v-twin connected to a continuously variable transmission and their goal is to introduce this to the market in the near future, so this is no pure design exercise. The CVT is actually called an HFT (Human Fitting Transmission) with two modes, either fully … [Read more...]

Screamin Eagle Destroyer runs low nines

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Back in July Harley Davidson introduced their Screamin Eagle Destroyer, a race only version of the V-Rod. Talk of nine second quarter miles when in the right hands sounded pretty decent for a Harley but no independent runs were available to know what it would really do. Motorcyclist magazine got to try one at the strip, and instead of sending a quarter mile pro, they gave … [Read more...]

Engineering the engine combustion process

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Engine manufacturers have a lot on their plate these days. They need to design engines for higher mileage, better performance, lower emissions and possibly multi fuel capability as well. Fuel itself needs to be designed to work toward those same goals. After you've tried all of those late night TV additives and gadgets, what do you do? A lot of the major companies are asking … [Read more...]

Phillips Head Protection System

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More good news on the helmet front. The Phillips Head Protection System protects against rotational injury, the kind of thing that happens if your helmet hits the pavement and digs in instead of sliding, causing your head to twist violently which then results in your brain rotating inside your skull. That's bad. Here's more: In more than 60% of motorcycle accidents, the head … [Read more...]

Lasers used for reverse engineering old parts

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Several times in the past we've discussed the idea of Fab labs where someone builds a solid object from a CAD file on a computer, 3D printers build up the digital bits into the real world piece. There are also companies who recreate old pieces for restoration and once they've made a piece, they can build many more for anyone else that needs one. If the file is in a computer, … [Read more...]