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Kawasaki builds a new website

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Must be the season for new websites. I mentioned below about Performance Machine introducing their new site and now Kawasaki has done the same. It has a huge amount of info but I think they made a big mistake. If you want to get in and use it, you need Flash and a fairly fast computer. Maybe with all of the fast Kawasakis running around they figure everyone has fast equipment. … [Read more...]

Hydrogen Motorcycle – details and picture

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Here's more information on the hydrogen motorcycle I mentioned last night. Called the ENV (emissions neutral vehicle) it has a top speed of 50mph and a range of 100 miles. Of course, this will improve as the technology is advanced. Built by Intelligent Energy, they designed the ENV to look very clean and simple and combined with a sound level about the same as the computer … [Read more...]

Hydrogen motorcycle

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Just the other day I was wondering about this, suppose they came up with some new motorcycle engine that was completely silent or just gave off a little whine, would you still want to ride it? Well, here we have a hydrogen motorcycle with just that problem ... or issue or whatever. But therein lies the problem. British engineers who yesterday unveiled the prototype of the … [Read more...]

New Performance Machine website

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Performance Machine, Inc. has a new website and somebody must have learned how to use Flash because if you load the 1024 X 768 version it gets pretty fancy. Lots of sound effects and graphics. They have always had a lot of neat products but now their website is over the top. … [Read more...]

Fat Tire Sportbikes

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Fat tires on choppers are commonplace but it isn't quite as common on sportbikes, yet. Custom Sportbike Concepts of Orlando, Florida have fat tire kits for selected sportbikes that put a monster rear tire out back for a truly phat look. I have to say it looks pretty cool. The photo at right is one of their custom project bikes, a Hayabusa, that has a lot of other very trick … [Read more...]