The Kneeslider

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150mpg motorcycle?

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Just following up on yesterday's post about the Thunder Star because I was rereading that article in Sport Rider. They toss in one statistic that I find pretty amazing, almost to the point of unbelievable. The Thunder Star gets 150mpg! It's in the article and on the cover so it isn't a typo, of course they call it a V-twin on the cover, too, and it's a triple, so... I didn't … [Read more...]

Thunder Star 1200 Diesel by Star Twin

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Stop the presses! er... stop the keyboards, I love this! Star Twin, a company over in Holland, has designed and built the Thunder Star 1200 TDI Sportbike. This is a 1200cc, three cylinder turbocharged direct injection diesel. They started with a 3 cylinder diesel engine from the VW Lupo, redesigned numerous parts using SolidWorks 3D computer modeling software, created patterns … [Read more...]

Hybrid motorcycles

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Would you enjoy riding a hybrid motorcycle? News stories about hybrid cars and hydrogen cars and alternate fuels are coming out daily. It's only a matter of time before these same technologies become available for motorcycles although, in some sense, things are beginning to change already with more development of diesel motorcycles that could run on biodiesel fuel. But just … [Read more...]

Acme Rocket Bike

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Another U.S. builder of cafe racers is Acme Rocket Bike. I first saw one of their bikes on the Ace Cafe website. (Every time I check out the Ace Cafe I go nuts over some of the bikes.) Looked really nice so I checked out their site and made a mental note to go back for a better look. When I looked yesterday, it seems they redesigned their site and all they have is a home page … [Read more...]

Jesse James on Sixty Minutes

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There was a segment on Sixty Minutes last night about Jesse James. I don't know if there is anything anyone needs to know about him that has not been covered elsewhere but if there was, no one would gain additional insight from last night's spot. CBS assigned a totally clueless reporter to ask such questions as "How fast do your motorcycles go?" with penetrating follow ups like … [Read more...]