The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Electric Motorcycle from Derbi GPR 50

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There's a growing group of homebuilders who are converting vehicles of all sorts to electric power, motorcycles among them. This motorcycle is a Derbi GPR 50 where the builder removed the original drivetrain and installed 6 lead acid batteries, an electric motor and a DC converter. The video is a short walk around of the bike and then a ride around the neighborhood. The … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – JVB Moto – Ducati Custom

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This one is nice, really nice. JvB Moto, operating out of Cologne, Germany, won the Ducati Design contest in 2004 with his creation called Flat Red. All wiring is hidden for a clean look and he relocated the battery, electrics and the oil cooler to free up space for a redesigned fuel tank and airbox. Overall, this is one good looking Ducati. My only small quibble would be … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – ARC Fabrication

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ARC Fabrication is a small business run by Doug Cook with the assistance of his wife Sharon, another of those builders we don't often hear about but turning out frames and motorcycle parts for riders who happen to hear about their work. Doug is an ex-racer and his enthusiasm for motorcycles resulted in this business that centers around custom motorcycles and fabrication. He can … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – MotoCreations – Mark Savory

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Mark Savory took a rather circuitous route to where he is today. An early interest in design then studies in engineering and computer science, a bit of IMSA racing, restoring a classic Ferrari, working in the computer field and then following all this with a dot com startup company that finally got it right (after two that didn't), meant Mark was able to relax just a bit. … [Read more...]

Riwi Products Single Side Front Fork

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While digging around looking for interesting motorcyce parts I came across Riwi Products in Innsbruck, Austria. It looks as though they make a few different things like wheels and forks but the part they seem to be promoting the most is their single sided front fork (or front arm, can't be a fork with one side, I guess). Anyway, it looks interesting and shows one more variation … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – Bob Horn

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Bob Horn sent in a couple of photos of a motorcycle he built back in 1991. As soon as I saw them, I knew I'd seen them before and, sure enough, the bike was featured in Motorcyclist magazine in October of that year. The bike you're looking at is Bob's proof of concept for some ideas he had about motorcycle steering and suspension and rather than getting into long winded debates … [Read more...]