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Neander Turbo Diesel Motorcycle

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With diesel engines gaining more of the spotlight, let's take a closer look at another diesel, the Neander turbo diesel motorcycle. A number of readers have pointed out this bike before which has been around for a while in prototype form but their intention is to begin production in limited quantities later this year so what do they have to offer? Neander Motors looked at … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Powered Street Ray

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H&P Trading in Plankstadt, Germany has created the new motorcycle powered Street-Ray. The Street-Ray is motivated by a 40hp 460cc, water cooled, single cylinder, fuel injected motorcycle engine. Transmission is a CVT with reverse gear. Martin Preuss, who founded Technop, a machine building company, was importing Chinese made quads, scooters and beach buggies. He didn't like … [Read more...]

Parts Unlimited Slotard SuperMoto Update

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We wrote about the Jesse Rooke / Parts Unlimited Slotard some months ago but all we had to go on were a few photos on his website. It was on display at the Quick Throttle Magazine Expo and it was covered on American Thunder TV where they had a little more info. We noted before the idea of removing the rear cylinder reminded us of Roger Goldammer's Trouble and it turns out … [Read more...]

Roland Sands MotoGP V5 Chopper?

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Roland Sands, who's getting to be our favorite motorcycle builder, has reportedly built a chopper powered by the V5 engine from a Kenny Roberts 2004 MotoGP machine. The upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed tossed that little tidbit into their press release: World-famous motorcycle customiser Roland Sands will also be showing his monster V5 chopper – projected by the same … [Read more...]

Moto Carrera Street Trackers

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One of the commenters on our Ron Wood Flat Tracker post wanted to point out the Moto Carrera company, makers of two stroke street legal dirt track replicas. Like the Ron Wood designs, these are light, powerful, minimal motorcycles that will most likely put a lot of other speedy looking motorcycles to shame. Most are based on Yamaha R5/RD350/400/RZ350s and have all of the … [Read more...]

Ron Wood Rotax Flat Track Motorcycles

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Some of you may look at the Desmosedici RR and get all weak in the knees, wondering how you can sell your first born to buy that street legal racer, but some of us look at bikes a little differently. Ron Wood builds flat track motorcycles designed to race on rutted and rippled dirt tracks at very high speeds. Ron also builds what, to my mind, is one of the simplest, cleanest … [Read more...]