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Michelin Airless motorcycle tires

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Michelin has been working on their Tweel for some time now which is a tire and wheel ("tweel", get it?) technology that needs no air. They also have an airless tire that mounts on a separate wheel but uses plastic bands for the sides in place of the normal sidewall. You get the flex characteristics of a normal sidewall tire without any air required. Although I had heard of … [Read more...]

VroomBox – High performance engine sounds

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OK, you really want the performance, no, not want, NEED the highest performance engine you can possibly stuff into your bike or the old family minivan. Then you glance in the wallet and find it a bit lacking. What to do? Well, in this day of rising gas prices and electric this and hybrid that, here's the future of performance, the VroomBox. A totally electronic set of engine … [Read more...]

Hydrogen Motorcycles – Not so fast

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Now it's water vapor, not CO2, causing global warming, at least that's the result of a new study in Europe to discover the cause of increasing temperatures on their continent. Water vapour rather than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is the main reason why Europe's climate is warming, according to a new study. The scientists say that rising temperatures caused by … [Read more...]

Freecharge Weza Portable Energy Source – and range extender?

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Here's something for The Kneeslider garage. You've all seen those portable jumpstart packs you can attach to the battery of your car or motorcycle or whatever and get going when your battery is dead and you've probably also noticed how many electronic devices like radios are coming out now with a hand crank charger for emergencies. The Freecharge Weza (where did that name come … [Read more...]

Smartuki becomes the Smart Attak

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By now, most of you have seen the Smartuki, the GSXR1000 powered Smart car previously owned by Peter Bee and designed and built at Z Cars. That amazing little 180hp rocket was quite the car. If you've followed things here, you also know the Smartuki was up for sale and has since been sold. At the present time, the original Smartuki has gone to Sweden and is being used as part … [Read more...]

Bad Brothers YSR Jetbike

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When many of us hear the words jetbike or turbine powered bike, we think of Jay Leno riding around on his megabuck two wheeler powered by a helicopter turbine. Now that's a very neat bike and given the opportunity, I'd love to ride it. Most of us, though, have far less money but some guys have lots of ingenuity, and that's when interesting things start to happen. Quite a while … [Read more...]