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Six Brittens at 25th Sound of Thunder Anniversary

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It isn't every day you see 6 Britten motorcycles lined up together, in fact, you simply never see that, period. Well, maybe just this once. Last weekend was the 25th anniversary meeting of the Sound of Thunder - BEARS racing (British European American Racing Society) in New Zealand. Tim, one of our Kiwi readers, mentioned the gathering in a comment on another post and I asked … [Read more...]

Roland Sands 450 SuperSingle

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We first mentioned Roland Sands' dirt bike based road racer last year and after several months of work it looks like they're almost ready for prime time. There are 3 versions, a Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki, each based on a 450cc dirt bike and then reskinned and reequipped for road racing. Sands will be offering the Yamaha as a complete ready to race motorcycle, the Honda and … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Custom Seat Program

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Harley Davidson has a new custom seat program where you design the seat online with different patterns, stitching, inlay materials and colors then take the print out to your dealer and order the seat. There's 800 possible combinations so there's a pretty good chance yours will be a little different or a lot different than the seat on your buddy's bike. It's a nice idea but … [Read more...]

Honda Ending Motorcycle Production in U.S.

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There will be one less company producing motorcycles in the U.S. next year as Honda plans to stop manufacturing motorcycles at its Marysville, Ohio facility and transfer production to Japan. Honda will focus efforts on its North American auto operations. Honda said there will be no layoffs when production ends in spring 2009. The workers will remain with the company, … [Read more...]

4 Valve Hemi Heads for Harley Big Twin Engines

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Revolution Performance Motors has introduced the RPMHemi 4 valve heads for the Evo V-twin and early Twin Cam engines, Twin Cam EFI kits are currently being tested and will be available soon. If someone asks, "That thing got a hemi?" just install these heads and you can say yes. Sweet! The heads bolt directly on to the stock engine, the only changes required are valve clearance … [Read more...]

Yamaha R1 Girder Front Suspension

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Girder front suspensions are pretty much as old as motorcycles and you see them on custom bikes all the time but not very often on sportbikes. This Yamaha R1 streetfighter from R1 Engineering is being fitted with a girder setup and it looks pretty neat. There's no reason this shouldn't work great and it will be interesting to see the finished bike. Thanks for the tip, … [Read more...]