The Kneeslider

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NAPA Drag Bike observations

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After seeing the two shows devoted to building the NAPA drag bike, I guess they did OK. Unfortunately, they only had about 30 seconds of the entire two shows devoted to starting and running the bike down the strip. It did run the 9.9 and Ricky Gadson said it was running rich and needed a lot of fine tuning so it had the potential to do a lot better. The bike was designed to be … [Read more...]

STi ATV update

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Remember this? Well, builder Ken Brough has been hard at work and has more pictures up at his new website, sti.co.nz. Lots more info about where he got the idea for building it. Seems he saw a TV show covering the hillclimb, Race To The Sky and thought a real super quad would be just the ticket. His aim was to build it road legal but the New Zealand authorities are a bit … [Read more...]

NAPA Drag Bike photos

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The Discovery Channel has photos of the NAPA drag bike built by Orange County Choppers. They are re-airing the two drag bike episodes this Sunday in case you missed them when they ran the first time. (I did.) Times are 10:00am and 11:00am eastern time. Check your local schedule. … [Read more...]

Triumph Rocket 3 streetfighter

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Here's a neat variation on the Triumph Rocket 3, kind of a Rocket 3 Streetfighter by Palatina. Triple exhaust tucked undertail, custom rearsets to get your feet properly placed, integrated turn signals, lots of carbon fiber, some with a blue color mixed in to the process ... everything is designed to take the big cruiser and transform it into a big Speed Triple, a REALLY big … [Read more...]

Hydrogen motorcycle for $6000

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The ENV, hydrogen motorcycle that was introduced back in March has generated enough interest that the company, Intelligent Energy, is moving to California and planning to have a hydrogen motorcycle for sale by 2006 for $6000. If they manage to pull it off, they'll be the first company selling a production hydrogen vehicle of any sort. Don't know if the performance will be any … [Read more...]

Motorcycle fab labs

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Mentioned fab labs a while back and I noticed in the last few days there's been a lot of buzz due to the release of a new book, Fab, by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. He teaches, "How to make (almost) anything," which is exactly the kind of course I would have enjoyed when I was in school, of course, back then, our tools were, ah ..., a bit more … [Read more...]