Got a Harley? Got an iPhone? Download the GaugeFace app and you'll have a digital dash. The unit plugs into the ECU. It charges the phone and displays a speedometer, tach, engine temperature, signal indicators and what gear you're in. There are plans to add more gauges to the display in the future. What models are supported? Generally, all Harleys since about 2001 with … [Read more...]
Victory Motorcycles to Assemble Bikes in India?
According to reports, Victory Motorcycles is planning to travel the same path as Harley Davidson into the Indian motorcycle market, formally announcing their entry by the second half of 2012. Plans are to initially send complete bikes, followed soon thereafter with an assembly plant in the country due to the extremely high tariffs on completely assembled imports. I guess if the … [Read more...]
KR800 – Kawasaki Rotax 2 Stroke Street Bike
What was I just saying the other day about not seeing very many mix and match frames and engines in custom bikes? Bill Shank thought we might like to see what he put together in his garage, his KR800, a Kawasaki ZZR1200 mated to a Rotax 800cc 2 stroke engine from a 2003 Ski-Doo. He isn't the first to mount a snowmobile engine in a motorcycle, but it's an interesting combo that, … [Read more...]
Royal Enfield Ace Fireball Cafe
When you come up with an engine modification for the Royal Enfield called the Ace Fireball 535, it sort of defeats the purpose to slip it into a stock bike, except for the much greater performance, a lot of folks might miss it altogether. Chumma, one of the partners in the Fireball project, just finished his new Royal Enfield cafe. (correction: Chumma did the work on this … [Read more...]
NorKaw – Kawasaki Z1 Power Motivates a Norton Featherbed Frame by Mick King
With today's specialized frames, wrapped around the specific engine they were designed for with no room to spare, we seldom see builders mixing and matching in a way that was common in years past. There are exceptions, like Norm Wilding's Kawabusa, for instance, a ZRX with Hayabusa power, but most of the customs work with the engine they came with. Mick King, whose NSU … [Read more...]
Motus MST Motorcycle on the Dyno and in the Cold
We haven't been hearing much from Motus, but as Brian Case told me, "we've been underground for a while, but that's what Winter is for, to stay in the shed and build s#&t so you can get it done by Spring." And then he gets to ride the MST V4 test bike in January, not in Alabama, but in Michigan. Cold? Oh yeah, but that's what it takes. Link: Motus Now check out the video … [Read more...]
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