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Roehr Motorcycles Sales Office in Santa Monica, CA

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Roehr Motorcycles now has a sales office on Ocean Front Walk in Santa Monica, California. If you're from the area, or could be in the area, you can arrange a private demo of the new Roehr 1250sc. 180hp of supercharged V-Twin power in an American sportbike, ... pretty cool. … [Read more...]

Track T-800CDI Diesel Motorcycle

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There's a new diesel powered motorcycle on the market, though only in the Netherlands for the moment, it's the Track T-800CDI. Made in the Netherlands, it's powered by a turbocharged 800cc 3 cylinder diesel with 45 horsepower and 74 foot pounds of torque. It has a centrifugal clutch and a CVT with shaft drive. It holds almost 6 gallons of diesel fuel. The engine is ready for … [Read more...]

Harley Davidson XR1200 Accessories by Storz

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Steve Storz sent some photos the other day of the parts and pieces he's offering for the new Harley Davidson XR1200. Steve has been building the Storz XR1200 for many years, taking the basic Sportster and turning it into a street tracker that mimicked the look of the old XR750. Harley acquired the XR1200 name from Storz for their new offering but, that didn't stop Steve from … [Read more...]

Yamaha 900 Seca Sport Touring Prototype

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Several comments on our recent Just Do It post suggested a reader's rides category for The Kneeslider. Starting today, we have our first, Jon Fife's nicely modified Yamaha XJ900 Seca and it's a great example of taking a bike that suits you well, buying parts and pieces inexpensively, adding lots of labor and your own ideas to come up with just what you wanted all along. … [Read more...]

Honda VFR800 Bolt-On Supercharger Kit

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You may remember the story we had a while back about the VFR800 with the homebuilt supercharger. It was one of those projects that started innocently enough and just kept growing. Well, Jon, from over at the VFR Discussion forum, let me know that project has become a complete bolt on kit you can buy to put on your own 5th generation VFR and raise your horsepower over 50 … [Read more...]

Carberry Enfield Update

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We told you about the Carberry Enfield Double Barrel a few months ago, the nifty V-Twin conversion that doubles the capacity of the stock Royal Enfield thumper. Paul Carberry just got a limited supply of donor bikes ready to convert and a new batch of crankcases are being machined. Orders are now being taken for the very first production machines. According to the boys … [Read more...]