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Yamaha Niken Means Leaning 3 Wheelers May Just Hit the Big Time – Updated

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Two years ago we wrote about the Yamaha MWT-9, a sport bike with two wheels up front, it looked mean and nasty, in a good way. At that time, leaning 3 wheelers had been out for years in scooter form and some companies were building conversions for big tilting touring rigs, but the obvious question was, why not on something more sporty? The MWT-9 looked like Yamaha was on track, … [Read more...]

Ural Baikal – Another Motorcycle for the Unimog and Land Rover Crowd

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Ural has just introduced the Ural Baikal, named after a frozen Russian lake that hosts a semi-annual 400 mile Ice Run. Just think, riding through drifting snow, sub zero wind chills and over the ice just for the fun of it. Saddle up! Of course, you probably won't and most likely, neither will anyone else who buys one of these, but you could, and there's an appeal in the thought … [Read more...]

Twin Turbo 4 Liter BMW V8 Powered Proboost M1

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You can build a motorcycle for a lot of reasons, sometimes there's a theme or style like a cafe racer or maybe a street tracker, but other times a builder just does what he wants and that's what we have here, the Proboost M1. I noticed it while looking over the bikes for sale and it made me smile. It looks like it was built to highlight the Proboost Turbosystems business so the … [Read more...]

Excelsior Henderson Joins the Parade of Old Brand Names Looking for a New Owner

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The upcoming January Mecum motorcycle auction in Las Vegas has a really wonderful line up of bikes for sale (Really, you should check it out!), but their featured attraction is the sale of the Excelsior Henderson brand name and associated intellectual property. A rather colorful write up extols the illustrious history of the brand and its previous owners, but I wonder what a … [Read more...]

Neander Turbo Diesel Finds a Home on the Water as the Dtorque 111 Outboard

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Way back in 2006 and 2007 we wrote about the Neander turbo diesel engine and the motorcycle built around it. The engine's design was unique due to its counter rotating crankshafts with a pair of connecting rods, one from each crank joining together to drive a single piston. It was a great way to eliminate the vibration normally associated with diesels and it looked like a fine … [Read more...]

ProtoMAX High Performance Personal Abrasive Waterjet From OMAX

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When you're coming up with the tool list for your dream shop, you'll probably include a waterjet. I know I would, and you likely remember when we wrote about the Wazer waterjet last year. Their Kickstarter project attracted enormous interest, the kind of interest that also gets the attention of the big guys who make the large industrial machines. OMAX, one of those companies, … [Read more...]