The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Build or Bust

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Isn't it about time to call an end to the reality shows? I stumbled onto this show, "Build or Bust," the other night and decided to watch a bit since there's been a lot of hype for it. Once again my question is, who watches this stuff? A bunch of staged action that's supposed to be "real" where some (un)lucky guy gets to try his hand at building a chopper while being verbally … [Read more...]

Mert Lawwill builds a flat tracker

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Mentioned back here that a group was in the process of building a Triumph flat tracker for competition. Now Mert Lawwill, former Grand National champion, is building one, too, but this one is for the street and it's based on a Harley Davidson. It's featured in the April issue of Cycle World and it looks great. Called the Street Tracker, it looks just like a flat tracker from … [Read more...]

150mpg motorcycle?

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Just following up on yesterday's post about the Thunder Star because I was rereading that article in Sport Rider. They toss in one statistic that I find pretty amazing, almost to the point of unbelievable. The Thunder Star gets 150mpg! It's in the article and on the cover so it isn't a typo, of course they call it a V-twin on the cover, too, and it's a triple, so... I didn't … [Read more...]

Thunder Star 1200 Diesel by Star Twin

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Stop the presses! er... stop the keyboards, I love this! Star Twin, a company over in Holland, has designed and built the Thunder Star 1200 TDI Sportbike. This is a 1200cc, three cylinder turbocharged direct injection diesel. They started with a 3 cylinder diesel engine from the VW Lupo, redesigned numerous parts using SolidWorks 3D computer modeling software, created patterns … [Read more...]

Hybrid motorcycles

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Would you enjoy riding a hybrid motorcycle? News stories about hybrid cars and hydrogen cars and alternate fuels are coming out daily. It's only a matter of time before these same technologies become available for motorcycles although, in some sense, things are beginning to change already with more development of diesel motorcycles that could run on biodiesel fuel. But just … [Read more...]

Acme Rocket Bike

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Another U.S. builder of cafe racers is Acme Rocket Bike. I first saw one of their bikes on the Ace Cafe website. (Every time I check out the Ace Cafe I go nuts over some of the bikes.) Looked really nice so I checked out their site and made a mental note to go back for a better look. When I looked yesterday, it seems they redesigned their site and all they have is a home page … [Read more...]