Got a note from Adrian Ward the other day who thought you might be interested in a project he's currently working on. He's one of those guys who's been working in motor racing his entire life, starting at Harris Performance, then running the Ohlins race service at British superbike and IOM TT, went from there to work for a number of F1 teams, Benetton, Arrows, and Willams, and … [Read more...]

Norm Wilding of Mid Missouri Motorcycles had an idea some years back, why not take a Kawasaki ZRX and slide in the engine from a Suzuki Hayabusa? Why not, indeed? His gorgeous creation was called Kawabusa. The first one he built was eventually sold to Jesse James. Of course, seeing it was such a great idea, he did it again and built Kawabusa II. I caught up with Norm at Vintage … [Read more...]

Zef Eisenberg who runs Maxicorp Autosports on the island of Guernsey has been building some really high performance, outside the box machinery. Their turbine bike is impressive, to say the least, but how about a nice little V8 designed especially for motorcycles? Sure, why not? He preferred a flatplane crank, which eliminates the rumble many of us associate with your … [Read more...]

It looks like the Aussies have built a beautiful new V8 motorcycle, the PGMV8. Builder Paul G Maloney, assembled his team, drawn from the shops of World Superbike, MotoGP, Formula One and various other design and racing environments and, starting in 2008, created this impressive 1996cc, 90 degree V8 engine and placed it in a package that, filled with fluids, comes in at 534 … [Read more...]

Here's an early (1990) build from the master builder down under. Ian Drysdale conjured up this interesting bike utilizing hydraulic drive on both wheels and, just for good measure, hydraulic steering on both wheels, as well. Powered by a 2 stroke engine, Ian named this the Drysdale Dryvtech 2x2x2. Ian explains the drive system: The pump pressurizes oil to around 4500psi … [Read more...]

Of all of the projects we've seen come and go on The Kneeslider, the Musket V-Twin by Aniket Vardhan is special. It first appeared here in April of 2009 and over the years it's evolved and grown and been refined by Aniket into the beauty it is today. Of course it was begun long before that, it's been ten years since Aniket's idea appeared in sketches and plans, but once out in … [Read more...]