Craig Vetter, who most of you know as the designer of the Vetter fairings and who also held a number of fuel economy contests in the 1980s, was at Vintage Days with a lineup of streamliners. Craig is also behind the concept of the Freedom Machine, one that gets far better mileage and allows us to import less oil and the key to its success, is streamlining. Craig is … [Read more...]
Yoshimura Suzuki GSX-R1000RR
Yoshimura is opening up their race shop to everyone, just bring your money and step right up. If you think you can handle the same bike that Mat Mladin races, just build your own GSX-R1000RR from off the shelf parts. Even better, it seems we'll see a ready made bike showing up in, or at least being offered through dealers. When Buell introduced their 1125RR, there was … [Read more...]
Polini Powered Home Built Bicycle Motorcycle Conversion
Got a note from Derek about a trip he took to Seattle. He was walking down the street and came across this really interesting home built bicycle conversion locked up in front of a theater in the university district. The owner and/or builder was obviously using it for around town transportation and Derek thought it was a great example of the type of small displacement homemade … [Read more...]
Suzuki B-King Custom – When Less is More
After posting the photos of the Rockstar Hayabusa, some of you seemed to think the front end was a bit heavy looking compared to the new cleaned up tail section. Removing the fairings might clean things up even more, or perhaps, you could start with a Suzuki B-King, a Hayabusa powered standard with some, ...um, ... interesting, ... design touches. Suzuki had the Gregg's … [Read more...]
Rockstar Hayabusa – a Subtle but Radical Custom
Hayabusa customs are everywhere, stretched swingarms, huge tires, turbos, nitrous, chrome all over and as wild as they are, they all use the same formula, if you've seen one, you've seen them all. This one's different. Built by Gregg's Customs and Jon Reed of Sport Chrome, you have to look really close or you wouldn't even know it was a Hayabusa, it looks more GSX-R than … [Read more...]
Supercharged NSU Straight 8 Trike Engine from Two Inline 4 Cylinder Auto Engines
Several builders have taken the route of joining engines into a V configuration but Chris Ireland, editor of Brit Chopper magazine, sent me this photo of his just completed straight 8. The 6 month build is the combination of 2 1200cc NSU air cooled auto engines, joined end to end with the cranks running 90 degrees apart for that V8 sound and power delivery. He also attached a … [Read more...]
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