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Zeppelin Board Track Racer with Hub Center Steering

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Here's a project that's different, it's the Zeppelin, Harley Davidson WR powered, hub center steering, board track racer. It's the work of Roel van der Heide, a retired Dutch steelworker, who has been building the Chiqane series of motorcycles where he developed his hub center steering design. After the article announcing that ISR was offering a hub center steering kit, Roel … [Read more...]

CSA Performance Wheels Relaunches Dymag Motorcycle Wheels

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Chris Shelley left a comment on my earlier post about Dymag Racing going bankrupt. It looks like CSA Ventures has bought up the Dymag business and equipment with plans to get things rolling in March. The new company is called CSA Performance Wheels. Chris says: CSA Ventures announces that it has acquired the assets of Dymag Racing’s motorcycle wheel business including … [Read more...]

Hub Center Steering Kit from ISR of Sweden

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Maybe you can't build a motorcycle quite like Stellan Egeland, but at least now you have access to some of the same exotic components he uses. The Harrier, Stellan's most recent custom, had a very unique look due to hub center steering, which more than looking good, worked very well, too. ISR, a Swedish company responsible for a number of components used by builders worldwide, … [Read more...]

Wakan 500 Superlight by Oberdan Bezzi

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Oberdan Bezzi seems to have a desire to repower motorcycles with Royal Enfield's new engine. We saw his Bullet Sport last year where he put the single into a Honda design concept, this time he's taken the 500cc single and fitted it into a Wakan in place of the S&S 1640cc V-Twin, the result is the Wakan 500 Superlight. I really like the Wakan 1640 and Oberdan's Photoshop … [Read more...]

Norton 880 Monoshock Cafe Racer

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When Paul Zuniga first saw some Photoshop images in 2001 of a new Norton that Kenny Dreer was planning to build and bring to market, he knew he had to have one. Unfortunately, we now know, those bikes never made it. The prototypes gradually evolved from the original concept, a bike was built and shown around to various journalists, but they ran out of funds before it could be … [Read more...]

Magpul Ronin Buell 1125R with Girder Suspension

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The Buell 11125R may be finished as a production motorcycle but there are plenty of people ready to continue on with their own ideas of what it might be or could be. The boys over at Magpul have built this version with a girder front end which looks very natural on the 1125, incorporating the visual style of the frame into the girder. Lots of interesting parts but … [Read more...]