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Workshop Weather Returns So Start Planning Your Projects

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It's been getting steadily colder and, as winter approaches, many of us are seeing snow. With the turn of the seasons and shorter days, what better way to spend some time than in your workshop? So head out to the garage and fire up the heater. If your ride doesn't need anything in particular, why not sort and arrange your tools and plan some better storage? There's always … [Read more...]

MOSS Modular Robot Construction Kits Are Amazing

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Do you like building things? Do you like stuff that moves? Before I say anything else, let me just say, you want one of these kits. It's a Kickstarter campaign that just began and I think it will be huge. These things are already being built and they look absolutely amazing. If you think robotics is pretty cool, but you don't have time to dig into the really technical stuff and … [Read more...]

Caterham Group Gets Into Motorcycles with Some Unique Designs

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If you say the name Caterham, most of you probably think of the Caterham Seven, the two seat, bare knuckle sports car with really surprising performance, but these guys are expanding fast. They've now got racing teams and composites divisions and to top it off, they just brought out three new motorcycle designs that I think look really cool. The bike that will be built first … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Liquid Cooled Street 750 and Street 500

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When's the last time you heard the name Harley Davidson associated with anything other than heavyweight motorcycles? Well, get used to it, because they're introducing two new models, the Street 750 and Street 500 based on a whole new platform powered by a liquid cooled Revolution Xâ„¢ powertrain. Looks like they're fighting in the middleweight class now. UPDATE: As expected, … [Read more...]

2014 Honda CTX1300 V4 Makes For an Interesting Comparison

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Photos started to surface about a week ago of this new Honda CTX1300. As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Hmm, ... Motus." Two different approaches to longitudinal V4 motorcycles. Let's see what we have. The Honda comes in at 1261cc compared to 1650cc for the Motus and while the Motus comes in at 160 or 180 horsepower, depending on whether you get the "R" model, the Honda, … [Read more...]