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Noriel Black Velvet and Norton Esquire – Two Different Visions Across Sixty Years

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A recent magazine cover photo caught my eye, it was John Mossey's Noriel Black Velvet on the cover of Classic Bike. It's one of those thoroughly British creations that comes about when you combine major parts from different marques into one new machine, in this case it's an Ariel Square Four engine installed, with no small amount of massage and modifications all around, into a … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Goes Bagger Racing with a Road Glide, a Crate Engine and You Can, Too

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A little over five years ago, I showed you the S&S T143 bagger, with a monster V-Twin engine shoehorned into the frame of a Harley Davidson Road Glide Ultra, a bagger that clocked 6.82 seconds and 106.58 mph in the eighth mile and something in the nines for the quarter. Fun stuff and it changes your perspective about what those big baggers are capable of if you have your heart … [Read more...]

Marvelous Magnetic Machines – Building Model Electric Motors From Scrap

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The weather is cold or wet or it's late and all you want to do is tinker with a small project on your workbench. You turn on some tunes low in the background, spread out a few tools, maybe a cold adult beverage off to the side and you have some parts of various types sitting on the bench in front of you. You slide your stool over and sit yourself down, and with the light … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson Adventure Tour Lets You Try Out the Brand New Pan America

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The new Harley Davidson Pan America 1250 is quite a change from the usual fare found in the Motor Company's dealer showrooms and it introduces a new engine as well, the Revolution Max 1250. Some of you are probably wondering what it looks like up close and personal and you might even want to try it out on the road. Well, Harley is thinking the same thing, so they've set up the … [Read more...]

Bottpower XR9 Carbona Kit Adds Racer Style to the Yamaha XSR900 and MT09

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Bottpower, you remember them, they designed the XR-1 kit to transform a Buell XB with a flat track look. Well, it looks like they turned their attention and design skills in the direction of Yamaha's XSR900 and MT09 and came up with the XR9 Carbona kit and it looks mean, nasty and fast and that's in a good way. It's quite a transformation. You don't need to do the entire … [Read more...]

Triumph Motorcycles Reveals TE-1 Electric Prototype Design

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Project Triumph TE-1, which began in 2019, is the company's move into developing their own electric motorcycle along with all of the related technology necessary for an electric lineup in the future. They've now revealed the powertrain and battery plus sketches of the prototype's design which draws from current models like their Street Triple. It looks good, very … [Read more...]