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Bimota V-Rod HDB2 Roadster from Oberdan Bezzi

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Oberdan Bezzi's most recent work shows a few variations on the Bimota theme and this one seems interesting, it's another possible mount for Harley Davidson's Revolution V-Twin, he calls it the HDB-2 Sport Roadster. Highly doubtful either the Motor Company or Bimota would go for a design like this, it doesn't fit the accepted ideas of what their brands are all about, but that's … [Read more...]

DARPA Driverless Vehicle Champ Will Teach You Artificial Intelligence for Free

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Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? It's been covered here on The Kneeslider several times when Ghostrider, the riderless motorcycle, was trying to qualify, it involved vehicles traversing a technically challenging course without any human intervention. Sebastian Thrun, who is director of the Stanford AI Lab, led the team that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and went on to … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Penster Tilting Reverse Trike

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Remember the drawings for the Harley Davidson Leaning Trike Patent we showed you way back in 2007? Well, the Harley Davidson Museum takes the wraps off of the real trikes (code name "Penster") behind those drawings. John Buttera, the legendary custom and race car builder, originally hailed from Wisconsin, and I guess he got to know some of the guys at Harley Davidson … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Rocket Engines

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You might remember the Vincent Picador, a Vincent motorcycle engine used in some WWII target drones and whose left over high performance parts are still prized by Vincent motorcycle builders today. Well, Vincent isn't the only motorcycle company that built engines for drones, it looks like Harley Davidson got in on the action more recently, only, Harley Davidson didn't slap a … [Read more...]

Honda XL350 Grass Tracker

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Have you ever seen those old Jawa speedway bikes? Laying over and flying through turns they're quite a distinctive sight. The bikes have been around since the 20s and sometime in the 70s some crazy adventurous Englishmen started running the rigid frame bikes over unimproved field tracks and soon realized suspension is a beautiful thing. The modified speedway bikes became known … [Read more...]

Ariel Motorcycles Coming Back?

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Simon Saunders is bringing back the Ariel motorcycle, or, more accurately, launching a new motorcycle with the Ariel name. He brought us the now well known Ariel Atom as a track day car something like six or seven years ago. They've been thoroughly used and abused, especially those on the high end of the power offerings with 300hp or better in a 1300 pound car with a very basic … [Read more...]