The Kneeslider

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Build your own carbon fiber motorcycle frame

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After mentioning motorcycle kits and components I noticed these two links describing the process for building carbon fiber bicycle frames. Super light and super strong, carbon fiber is showing up in all sorts of vehicles. I previously mentioned one company building carbon fiber motorcycle frames for the chopper market but when you look at the work these two did, you get the … [Read more...]

Ghostrider riderless motorcycle

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DARPA, the R&D guys at the Department of Defense, came up with a competition last year called the Grand Challenge. The goal is deceptively simple, a driverless, autonomous vehicle must complete a 150 mile desert course in less than 10 hours. If you are quickest across the line, you get $2 million dollars. Last year, no one made it beyond 8 miles. Well, they're doing it again … [Read more...]

Tilting Vehicle concept

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Here we have one Phillip James, an Australian of considerable self taught technical skill, who has built a prototype tilting vehicle that drives like a car, tilts like a motorcycle and looks very stable. With a bit of work, this could be one helluva vehicle. He's applied for a patent which is a good thing because I think a lot of other guys are going to try to build something … [Read more...]

Motorcycle kits and components

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Many visitors here, probably you, are a lot more technical than most folks and I bet more than a few of you can build your own computer. If you can, you know a computer is made from very few and very standard parts and those parts can be purchased from a wide variety of sources. Once parts become standardized, producing your own version of the finished product is easy and so is … [Read more...]

Motorcycle travel and tours

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Some of you live where you can ride year round but those of us who live in the northern U.S. are approaching that time of year when the weather turns cold and our bikes get put away until Spring. That's all the more reason to take maximum advantage of the riding weather we still have, and if you live in the northeastern U.S., this can be the absolute best riding all year. The … [Read more...]

BMW 1150 RT-P Police Motorcycle

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A couple of news articles over the weekend mentioned a police department in Arizona was re-equipping their force with BMW motorcycles, specifically, the BMW 1150 RT-P. I had mentioned the Honda police bike before but I was unfamiliar with this BMW police model so I thought I would check it out. Looks nice. It has an 1130cc boxer engine, ABS braking system and a huge load of … [Read more...]