The Kneeslider

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Smartuki For Sale

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Peter Bee, the owner of the Smartuki, just informed me the Smartuki is for sale. Pete's off on his next project and the wife's put her foot down, sell this one first! Since I'm eager to see how his next car turns out I'm trying to help. If you are seriously interested, send your contact info here and I'll forward it to Pete. Remember, the car is currently located in the U.K. so … [Read more...]

Scuderi Split Cycle engine

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Here's another in our long series of new engines, trying to change the way we think about internal combustion engines, ready to go except they're waiting for investment. This is the Scuderi Split Cycle engine. I noticed this in Cycle World magazine and thought I would check it out. It uses two cylinders, one for intake and compression and the other for power and exhaust. After … [Read more...]

Martin Conquest trike

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When I mentioned trikes the other day, I said I had a hard time figuring out why people would want them and several readers pointed out a lot of older or handicapped riders found them to be a way to keep riding. That's an excellent point and just to emphasize the fact, here is the Martin Conquest, specifically built for the wheelchair rider. The wheelchair rolls right in and … [Read more...]

Nicky Hayden’s win at Laguna Seca

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After watching Nicky show the international crowd how we do it over here, you have to wonder, how well would Nicky be doing against Rossi and friends if he had come up through the GP ranks? He rode dirt bikes and then the AMA races, Rossi ran the lower GP classes and became familiar with the tracks he would run on in MotoGP. Track familiarity certainly plays a role as most of … [Read more...]

Motorcycle How-To videos

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As I was checking out the Make blog, I saw an interesting entry on building a Multimachine, an all purpose machine shop from scrap components. I thought that was neat and followed a comment recommending another video which led me to technicalvideorental.com. That site is very cool. Lots of how-to videos, including this series of motorcycle related items. But the range of … [Read more...]

US MotoGP 2006 already set

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According to Roadracing World, the 2006 US MotoGP is already set and is scheduled for July 21-23. I couldn't find anything to confirm those dates on the Laguna Seca site but if true, I'm marking my calendar. Update: It's official. … [Read more...]