Over the last week or so I've been thinking and writing about motorcycle engines and I came across this series of columns by Marc Cook over at AVweb. Being an aviation web site his columns look at engines from that perspective and he examines the actual differences between motorcycle and airplane engines and the reasons why they're different. It's good information. As I … [Read more...]
Defiant Scooters
Everyone knows what a scooter is, one of those little things you see around some college campuses and downtown in crowded cities. Usually a bit small. I ran across this and it takes care of the small factor and it should cruise on the highways just fine since it's powered by a Harley Sportster engine. From what I can tell … [Read more...]
Technical illustrations
Sometimes when we read an article about the latest motorcycle we look at the illustrations to better understand what the words are all about. It's easy to breeze right over the skill involved in putting the illustration itself together so it's accurate and artistic. Jim Hatch is one of those guys putting out great work, you've probably seen an illustration or two by him in … [Read more...]
Diesel motorcycles
I mentioned here that some diesel motorcycles had been out speeding at Bonneville and admitted I hadn't given much thought to them before but after coming across more info I see good reasons for them. Especially in military applications, everything else runs on diesel already so using the same fuel is a big advantage plus it's more efficient, the bikes get over 100mpg and … [Read more...]
Motorcycle technology
Where is motorcycle technology headed? With all of the recent stories of automotive hybrids, fuel cells and electric power not to mention the huge number of new designs, cars are moving into the future, fast. Plain old internal combustion engines are putting out more power than in the muscle car days of the late sixties. What about bikes? … [Read more...]
Motoczysz C1 on display
A blogger stopped by the Seattle motorcycle show and saw the brand new Motoczysz C1 on display and lucky for us he had a camera along. He has a couple engine closeups which is great since that is the really radical component along with the single sided front end. … [Read more...]