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Hayabusa V8 for the DP1

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It's been a while since doing any updates on Dennis Palatov's DP1 project so I thought I would stop by and see what's up. Wow. If you're not familiar with the DP1, it's a track car designed and built by Dennis Palatov with a carbon fiber body and a Suzuki Hayabusa engine. Extremely high end design work and engineering involved here, and he's going to produce them for sale, too. … [Read more...]

MTC Voyager – Winter wheels for your motorcycle

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Up here in the northern climates, winter means snow and ice. In some areas it gets cold but they don't get quite as much snow and police bikes still patrol the roads but usually mount sidecars for the stability and that occasional snow or icy patch. This year the Harley Davidsons used by the Pittsburgh, PA police are doing something a little different. Instead of sidecars, … [Read more...]

Oil, lots of oil, let’s start digging

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Don't sell your gasoline powered vehicles just yet, there's a barrel or two of oil still out there and as prices rise, more of those barrels will appear in the pipeline as new resources become profitable. I mentioned oil shale or tar sands before but if you never bothered to look into it, you really should. There are deposits, according to Syncrude, in Alberta, Canada, that are … [Read more...]

YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005

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Yamaha just held the YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005, where technicians from 23 countries competed against one another to see who fared best. From the news release: The contents of this year' s contest included (1) a written test of technology, product and motorcycle industry knowledge (60 min.), (2) a practical skills test of pre-delivery machine preparation, … [Read more...]

Bad Brothers YSR Jetbike

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When many of us hear the words jetbike or turbine powered bike, we think of Jay Leno riding around on his megabuck two wheeler powered by a helicopter turbine. Now that's a very neat bike and given the opportunity, I'd love to ride it. Most of us, though, have far less money but some guys have lots of ingenuity, and that's when interesting things start to happen. Quite a while … [Read more...]

Ducati 999R XEROX and ST3S ABS Preview at Birmingham

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Ducati is previewing two new motorcycles at Birmingham. From the press release: In the run-up to the presentation of its complete Model Year 2006 range at EICMA in Milan from 15 to 20 November, Ducati chose the prestigious Motorcycle and Scooter Show in Birmingham (UK) to preview two of its new models due out next year. The first is an exclusive version of the 999R, in the … [Read more...]