Recently I asked if motorcycles were the future of performance. With increasing CAFE standards and the rising price of gas, cars are turning into high mileage clean air pumps which, unfortunately, underperform, especially when compared to the cars we used to drive. I thought about this again while looking at these photos from Paolo Tiramani. He thought we might want to see … [Read more...]
Roehr 1250sc – 180 HP Supercharged V-Twin
The Roehr 1250sc pre production prototype has been completed and plans are to begin production late this year. The bike is powered by a 180 hp supercharged Harley Davidson Revolution engine. This should be one extremely interesting motorcycle. I like the looks and I really like the blown Revolution engine. Final price has not been set. Let's see, a 180 hp supercharged … [Read more...]
The Uno – Parallel Wheel Electric Motorcycle
18-year-old Canadian, Ben J. Poss Gulak, has always done a lot of tinkering, model trains, rockets, that sort of thing, but the Uno, is something else entirely. The Uno, is a parallel wheel, electric motorcycle that operates like a Segway, lean forward to go forward, lean backwards to go in reverse. Ben unveiled his creation at the 2008 National Motorcycle Show in Toronto, … [Read more...]
Triumph Trackmaster Street Tracker
A 1974 Trackmaster frame he scored from a U.S. Air Force man returning from England gave Jerry Ennis the last piece he needed to complete this sanitary Triumph street tracker. Ennis added a few rare nifty bits from his collection and produced a bike that drew crowds when he rolled it out April 19 at the Washington Vintage Motorcyclists swap meet in Mount Vernon, … [Read more...]
Roger Allmond Triumph Rocket 3 Custom Finished
Got word from Roger Allmond yesterday that his Triumph Rocket 3 custom was just finished late Saturday night. He had some photos taken over at MCN and they have the first one up. It's certainly one big and beefy custom, exactly what you would expect given the bike he started with, though there's very little of that bike left, except for the engine. Most everything you see … [Read more...]
Buell Motorcycles 25th Anniversary
Has it been 25 years already? Buell Motorcycles is getting ready to celebrate their first quarter century of building "World Class American" sportbikes. Erik Buell had a dream of putting something together just a little different and he's done a helluva job of doing just that. Starting out as essentially a handbuilt motorcycle with its share of teething pains they've come a … [Read more...]
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