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Honda CB750 Dragster

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If you don't think the Honda CB750 was a popular engine back in its day, here's an application you may not have seen before, I don't recall seeing anything like this myself. This is a dragster, one of three, built in California by Triple A Accessories, a company that used to make parts and accessories for Honda CB750s and other motorcycles. The body is aluminum, the engine is … [Read more...]

Supercharged Yamaha TMax R Scooter

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Ludovic Lazareth has done it again. This interesting creation is a Yamaha TMax 500 scooter, fitted with a Rotrex supercharger, doubling the horsepower and making for what looks like a fun ride, what Lazareth calls the "TMax R." It retains the twist and go, no clutch simplicity of a regular scooter but packs a high power punch and better handling, probably enough to embarass … [Read more...]

Radial Motorcycle Engine Modifications

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The radial engine powered motorcycle Jesse James built and displayed at the recent concours drew a lot of attention, as it should, you just don't see radial motorcycle engines every day, or any day for that matter. But for those of you who are more mechanically inclined, you might look at the bike and say, "Hey, wait a minute. The prop is powered from the front of a radial … [Read more...]

200hp Vee Two Supercharged Super Squalo

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The boys down under at Australian Ducati tuner shop, Vee Two, seem to really like superchargers. They are the shop responsible for engineering the V-Rod supercharger kit marketed by Vance and Hines, which turns the V-Rod into a real 160 horsepower Jekyll and Hyde monster bike. Very nice, but being a Ducati shop, after all, they turned their attention to the Ducati 999 and what … [Read more...]

Vyrus 985 C3 Swingarm Front End Motorcycle

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While doing a little leisurely reading yesterday, I came across an article in the August Motorcyclist about the Vyrus 985 C3 4V, a naked bike with a swingarm front end using hub center steering, a CNC machined frame and powered by a Ducati 999 V Twin. Based on the Bimota Tesi but completely redesigned, the Vyrus has the engineered look of a high tech purpose built motorcycle, … [Read more...]

Michael Czysz comments on The Kneeslider

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For those of you not following along, we've been having a rather lively exchange on a previous post, MotoCzysz Unveiling Racebikes at Laguna Seca, and yesterday both Ryan Taylor, the Motoczysz Director of Communications and Michael Czysz himself weighed in. If you are the least bit interested in the development of the MotoCzysz race bike and some of the related opinions … [Read more...]