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Kawasaki Ninja Flat Tracker?

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Yesterday's offline browsing led to a short piece in Cycle World about Bill Werner, the top tuner for Grand National champions, who built a Kawasaki Ninja 650 based flat tracker. That reminded me of a comment here on The Kneeslider and after doing some digging I found it along with a link to a photo. (Shown above) Remember the story about motocross bikes converted to road … [Read more...]

Roger Goldammer’s ExperiMental for sale

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Roger Goldammer's ExperiMental, the Discovery Biker Build Off bike is for sale. It's powered by a 250cc liquid cooled 2 stroke super kart engine with tandem cylinders and 2 crankshafts geared together. It's a pretty impressive piece of engineering. The show featured his bike running against Matt Hotch who built his Vincent powered Vinnie. Roger won with a 128mph pass. Not bad … [Read more...]

Dainese D-Air Racing Airbag Protection System

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Airbag jackets have been around for a couple of years but Dainese has developed the D-Air Racing airbag system specifically designed to protect racers. The system was introduced at the Valencia GP in both the 250cc and 125cc classes. As luck would have it, the system was given a workout as a couple of riders with the D-Air system crashed and the system deployed. The D-Air … [Read more...]

KillaCycle Drops Electric ET Record to 7.824 Seconds

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KillaCycle keeps raising the bar by lowering its ET at the dragstrip. Running at Pomona, it ran a 7.82 @ 168 mph! We're getting into Pro Stock territory now, how long before they match the pros and beat them? KillaCycle, remember, is an all electric motorcycle, no gas, no blower, no nitrous, just electrons. This is getting interesting. Video below: … [Read more...]

Formula Bike – 125cc Entry Level Racing

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A Swiss company, Marilley Motosport, has designed and built a 125cc entry level racer called the Formula Bike. Its purpose is to give young racers the chance to prepare for racing in the higher level classes and also to be a very accessible level of racing for the non professional. The initial version is a 40+ horsepower 2 stroke available in March of 2008 eventually to be … [Read more...]

How About Motorcycle Championship Teams?

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Watching Casey Stoner bring his Ducati across the finish line for yet another win makes me wonder once again, why do we focus on the racer almost to the exclusion of the bike and the team? Stoner is an extremely talented and skilled rider, no doubt about it but without the Ducati the factory produced this year and the team that sets it up and the tires that stick so well, … [Read more...]