The Kneeslider

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Motorcycle crate engines

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We need motorcycle crate engines. For quite a while now, if you got the urge to rebuild a car, all you had to do is pick up a catalog from any one of a lot of companies, choose the engine you want, displacement, horsepower, mild or wild and with the stroke of a check have a completely rebuilt, modified and guaranteed engine sitting in your driveway a few days later. Even the … [Read more...]

Make Magazine finally arrives

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Way back here I mentioned the upcoming release of Make Magazine, devoted to those of us who like tools and taking things apart and finding out how stuff works and most importantly, how to build neat new things to solve some problem or just to see if we could. My first issue finally arrived yesterday. It has all kinds of hacks, computer, electronic, mechanical, just a lot of … [Read more...]

S&S Cycle forbids internet sales

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S&S Cycle, Inc. has formulated a policy that forbids dealers from selling S&S products on the internet. S&S, as you probably know, sells V-Twin engines and components into the chopper, Harley and V twin racing markets. Resellers may advertise the fact that they have them, but they may not advertise the price or sell the products over the internet. This policy is intended to … [Read more...]

Triumph returning to flat track?

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Noticed a short piece in Motorcyclist about a Triumph flat tracker being prepared for the 2005 season by Doug Horner of VMC Frames. A twin from the Thruxton is bored and stroked to 988cc then gets the full engine mod treatment, reworked head, lightened crank, etc. The flat track scene used to be a Harley dominated series (with Rotax power) and it would be neat if this new bike … [Read more...]

Hayabusa and ZX12R vs. Modified Viper

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Some folks do not believe how fast,... how really, really fast, today's bikes are. Here is a video of a lot of comparison runs between several different Hayabusas from stock to big bore and nitrous and one ZX12R, highly modified as well, racing against a Viper coupe with supercharger and lots of engine mods and 883 rear wheel horsepower. The stock Busa hangs with him, the Viper … [Read more...]

Motorcycle car hybrids

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Wasn't planning on turning this into a car blog but I have to mention one more company using Hayabusa engines since they seem to have quite a business building street legal cars and kits. The comany is Z Cars over in England and they have some of the coolest conversions, putting bike engines into a Mini, a Lotus and some other cars, most notably, the Ultima, where they use two … [Read more...]