Over two years ago, The Kneeslider found a pulsejet powered bicycle on eBay built by Bob Maddox. Shortly after we wrote about it, everyone started writing about it, Bob Maddox got to be quite well known and customers began calling. Bob's latest creation, actually built for a racer who wants to break 200mph, is a beauty, whimsically called the Harley Davidson SportJet. With 250 … [Read more...]

The Volksmotorrad would have been perfect for the Germans chasing Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, or perhaps, as the builder fantasizes, it could have been a secret project from Ferdinand Porsche built for Rommel in WWII. I think it's ideal for the post apocalypse when motorcycles are cobbled together from whatever you have lying around. In any case, what we have here … [Read more...]

With the recent mention of the radial engine project going on down under, you start to wonder what the guys building radial engine customs have been up to. The guys at JRL Cycles, who have now put together a number of bikes around the 9 cylinder Rotec radials, are working on several projects, including an 18 cylinder two row version which should be quite a sight. While … [Read more...]

Would you be interested in a nice, brand new, lightweight, single cylinder cafe racer? You're probably thinking, why bother asking, no one is making them, but maybe you're just not looking in the right place. Former NASA engineer Casey Stevenson of Ryca Motors had the same idea, he wanted a lightweight single to cruise around L.A. but finding few options he figured he could … [Read more...]