The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Pivotal piston water cooled two stroke engine

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Pivotal Engineering of Christchurch, New Zealand has designed and built a new two stroke engine. The pivotal engine utilizes a pivoting wedge shaped piston that pivots on a shaft while the driving force is transferred by a connecting rod from the bottom of the piston to the crankshaft. The piston itself is directly cooled by water which circulates through the piston from the … [Read more...]

Hubless Mini Chopper

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Spotted this bike on the AMA site among the Daytona bike week photos and I think it illustrates very nicely what I meant when I said mini choppers are a great way to learn about motorcycle building. Brandon Baughman, 17 years old, is starting his own company and one of the first few bikes he's built is this mini chopper with a Honda 18 horsepower engine and a friction driven … [Read more...]

Daytona 200, XBRR, AMA

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Congratulations to Jake Zemke, good race, very nice ride. Miguel Duhamel, what a competitor! Highsides, lands hard, jumps back up, runs over to his bike now missing a windshield and with a loose faceshield on his helmet, fires up the bike and gets back into the race. Excellent effort showing what a rider and competitor he is. The Buell XBRR and the various teams need a … [Read more...]

AMA Superbike – good season coming

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The Superbike race at Daytona indicates we might have a more interesting season than we've had in the past few years. Mladin and Spies seem to be very close but the Hondas, Kawasakis and Ducatis are all right in the mix. Of course, Daytona is quite unlike the other tracks so we'll see. … [Read more...]

Ducati Launches Desmoblog

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Ducati has introduced Desmoblog with periodic entries written by Federico Minoli, giving the Ducatisti a little insight on the goings on at Ducati, much like GM's Fastlane with entires from Bob Lutz. It would be nice to see a few of the other motorcycle manufacturers jump in as well, nothing like a direct line of two way communication with the factory to let them know what's … [Read more...]