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Honda 600 Barstool Racer

By Paul Crowe

Too much time and beer leads to this, a Honda 600 4 cylinder installed in a barstool racer. We've all seen these little machines but the engines are usually something of the Briggs and Stratton variety, this little beast has gone a step further, well actually it's gone completely over the top but when you look closely the workmanship seems to be first rate. Five speed, disc … [Read more...]

Rocket Bike Powered by Roofing Tar

By Paul Crowe

Now that we have guys building rockets like SpaceShipOne, everyone's getting into the rocket powered game. Tim Pickens happens to be a rocket designer with Orion Propulsion and he got the bug to strap on some thrust but all he had available was a bicycle, so he was off to the garage and wheeled out with this. Actually his first one was a little 35 pound thrust rocket which … [Read more...]

Ducati 3D Extreme Motorcycle Mobile Phone Game

By Paul Crowe

Ducati has something to keep those reflexes sharp during the cold weather, a little racing action for your mobile phone, Ducati 3D Extreme. I'll have to get the reviews from someone else, though, my fingers don't work that fast on tiny buttons. Press release follows: Vir2L Studios LLC and Superscape Group PLC, global entertainment publishers and developers of worldwide … [Read more...]

GixxerKart – GSX-R powered go kart

By Paul Crowe

This has evidently been floating around for some time but I just came aross this link over the weekend. Looks like a fellow over in Germany has taken a racing kart and added a bit more power in the form of a 1988 GSX-R 1100 engine with 115hp, the GixxerKart. There's a video of the build process followed by some action at the track. 0-60 in under 3 seconds with a top speed of … [Read more...]

Yamaha paper motorcycle models

By Paul Crowe

Want your own 50th anniversary edition of the Yamaha MotoGP bike? Yamaha will give you one, sort of, at the Yamaha papercraft site. You can download a paper foldup model and build it yourself. Want a V-Max or an R1? You can have one. These look very cool. You might figure those folks from the land of origami might come up with something like this. You need the free Adobe … [Read more...]

Home made jet engines

By Paul Crowe

This post has little to do with motorcycles but I think it's a great example of what a creative tool guy can do in his shop. Mark Nye has a business building attachments for heavy equipment, a good business, pays the bills and keeps him in enough tools and shop equipment to enable him to build stuff like turbojet engines out of truck turbochargers. Gee, I like that. His website … [Read more...]

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