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Honda Gets in Touch with its Bad Self and Builds a Gold Wing Bagger

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It seems the designers at Honda are getting a little jealous of all of those Harley baggers. The Gold Wing is a wonderful touring platform and you see them cruising the interstates all the time, but the black leather and razor stubble crowd isn't buying it, from their reactions, you would think someone was asking them to wear a dress. It's obvious a lot of folks think the Gold … [Read more...]

Honda Brings Back the Past with the 2013 CB1100 – a CB750 All Grown Up

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The new 2013 Honda motorcycle lineup is actually quite interesting and the CB1100 almost makes you want to check your calendar, it's more than a tip of the hat to the original CB750, it's what it might have become if it had never gone away. Let's see, upright seating position, naked style, steel tube chassis with twin rear shocks suspending 18 inch wheels, air cooled DOHC … [Read more...]

BMW R1200R CR Classic Racer – Team Metisse Builds a BMW Cafe Racer

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Some owners like their BMW just like it came from the factory, but if you had your mind set on something a little different, something in the way of a cafe racer, Team Metisse has just what you're looking for, the BMW R1200R CR. The cafe racer is available from Metisse through your BMW dealer as a complete bike, but if you already own an R1200R, you can order the … [Read more...]

Why Hardware Offers a Bright Future for Hands On People Like You

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Just a few weeks ago we reviewed the book Makers: the New Industrial Revolution, a book focusing on the growing movement toward "small batch" manufacturing, enabled by the powerful combination of computers, the Internet and an exploding array of very capable high quality tools. In the few short weeks since, there have been some interesting developments and comments, … [Read more...]