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Project Imola Ducati Kit bike

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Tired of waiting for your Ducati Sport Classic? Roll your own with this Project Imola kit from Baines Racing. You start with a 900, 750 or 600SS or monster to use as a donor bike, transfer the engine, wheels, front fork and various other pieces and what you end up with is the spitting image of an old bevel drive Ducati. So, while Ducati is gearing up for production of their … [Read more...]

DIY Panniers

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OK, it's the weekend and you have a little time so break out the tools and build yourself some panniers. (the lawn can wait, there's always tomorrow) If you're planning to ride through Central America or maybe up to Alaska on the Pan American highway, these are just the ticket. Maybe you can do your own ride around the world TV show, why should that be reserved for the semi … [Read more...]

China’s design process

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As I mentioned here and here , the Chinese have an odd way of designing products, it kinda seems like they take photos and tracing paper and call it design. The photo here shows the Chevy Daewoo Matiz and the Chinese Chery QQ soon to be sold in the US by Malcolm Bricklin. GM is ready to sue but this constant legal nonsense is going to get old. They'll keep doing it and just … [Read more...]

World and European Championship

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The World and European Championship of Custom Bike Building took place March 19th and 20th in Mainz, Germany. What's interesting is that they have different classes, Freestyle, HR (Hot Rod?) and Fighters and though the classes seem to overlap, the Fighters class is closer to the sport choppers I wrote about yesterday in some cases but it had a lot of the street fighter types, … [Read more...]

Sport Choppers

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We've talked a lot about a sportbike build off and whether it would generate enough interest, well, how about sport choppers? What the heck is that, you ask? Have you seen the V-Rod built by Roland Sands at Performance Machine? He took a V-Rod and used a lot of parts from their company's catalog and a lot of great ideas, too. Instead of increasing the rake like every other … [Read more...]

Monster Garage

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Surprised again. Last night I saw the tail end of American Rodder which looked really good, Boyd Coddington picked his 10 favorite rods, and they were really nice, and right after that was Monster Garage. That show has been way out there for some time with weird projects and last night they built, of all things, a motorcycle! A group of long time builders got together and … [Read more...]