Picture this, your buddies are dragging knees and pushing hard on their favorite canyon road, the familiar sound of inline 4 cylinder engines in everyone's ears, then all of a sudden you're there, no one heard you approach from behind and all they hear now is a bit of a high pitched whine. You're riding an electric! Then someone else swoops in, this time the sound is deeper … [Read more...]
KAlex AV1 Prototype Motorcycle by Kalex Engineering
Alex Baumgartel and Klaus Hirsekorn decided to build a motorcycle to compete in the 2008 European Sound of Thunder race series. The rules for this series seem quite open and encourage the development of one off race bikes, there's no need for any production based racer. Alex and Klaus, who both work for a the German racecar tuning consultancy, Holzer, doing fabrication and … [Read more...]
Why Not Build Street Legal Custom Motorcycles?
When big name builders show off their new custom creations, you can usually bet some piece of required hardware for street legal operation will be missing, sometimes many pieces. Critics of the manufacturers say their new models don't look as good as what the aftermarket and custom builders turn out but that criticism is a bit unfair when the builders ignore things the … [Read more...]
Roland Sands Custom Ducati Hypermotard
Roland Sands unveiled a custom version of the Ducati Hypermotard at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show. No other info on this other than what you see. I'm sure this one will ignite the Ducati faithful. I like this a lot more than the standard Hypermotard though you might need to muffle that exhaust a bit. Link: Flickr and Flickr … [Read more...]
Jesse Rooke’s KTM Based Cafe Racer
Jesse Rooke is showing his latest custom, done in the style of a KTM powered cafe racer, at the Long Beach International Motorcycle Show. Mathieu sent in a link to this photo and it looks pretty neat. We noticed this bike in progress back in March when it was up on his web site in a "work in progress" photo. Looks like he's wrapped it up, could use a little seat padding, … [Read more...]
Motorcycle Road and Racing Chassis
If the names Bakker, Dresda, Harris, Spondon or many others like them ring a bell, you'll find Motorcycle Road & Racing Chassis a very interesting book. Just published, it covers 15 specialty frame builders, some still in business, some not, with stories of how they came about and photos of the frames and completed bikes they built over the years. If you read The Kneeslider, … [Read more...]
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