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Tony Foale Moving to the U.S.

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Tony Foale, author of Motorcycle Handling and Chassis Design, is moving to the U.S. after accepting a position with Segway as Director of Product Engineering. Tony's book and seminars are jam packed with information explaining the workings of the modern motorcycle chassis and suspension. The book is very good but the seminars are really in depth. I had the opportunity to … [Read more...]

Randakk’s Honda GL1000 Supercharger

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A few months ago I mentioned Randall Washington's supercharger kit being developed for the Honda GL1000 / GL1100 Gold Wing. I thought it looked interesting and I checked back to see how things were going. Everything looked pretty good, great components, high quality work and it's finished and on the road. Unfortunately, he is not going to produce it for sale because, quite … [Read more...]

Gray Eagles Build a Turbo Diesel Harley Davidson

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What happens when a group of retired Harley Davidson engineers and executives plus a few other retired gearheads get together? Well, you might see some guys playing golf, or then again, you might get a diesel Harley Davidson. These guys went the diesel route. The Gray Eagles are a group of guys, one of which worked on the Nova project, one was Harley's director of advanced … [Read more...]

Six Brittens at 25th Sound of Thunder Anniversary

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It isn't every day you see 6 Britten motorcycles lined up together, in fact, you simply never see that, period. Well, maybe just this once. Last weekend was the 25th anniversary meeting of the Sound of Thunder - BEARS racing (British European American Racing Society) in New Zealand. Tim, one of our Kiwi readers, mentioned the gathering in a comment on another post and I asked … [Read more...]

Roland Sands 450 SuperSingle

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We first mentioned Roland Sands' dirt bike based road racer last year and after several months of work it looks like they're almost ready for prime time. There are 3 versions, a Yamaha, Honda and Kawasaki, each based on a 450cc dirt bike and then reskinned and reequipped for road racing. Sands will be offering the Yamaha as a complete ready to race motorcycle, the Honda and … [Read more...]

Yamaha R1 Girder Front Suspension

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Girder front suspensions are pretty much as old as motorcycles and you see them on custom bikes all the time but not very often on sportbikes. This Yamaha R1 streetfighter from R1 Engineering is being fitted with a girder setup and it looks pretty neat. There's no reason this shouldn't work great and it will be interesting to see the finished bike. Thanks for the tip, … [Read more...]