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Tony Foale Heading Back to Spain

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A couple of years ago, I mentioned Tony Foale moved to the U.S. to take a position at Segway as Director of Product Engineering. Tony tells me he wrapped up his work there a couple of months ago and is heading back home to Spain. Despite my inquiry, he wouldn't tell me what they were working on in the Segway skunkworks, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see. If you talk … [Read more...]

Roland Sands Design Mission 200

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Just flipping through the November Motorcyclist and saw a short reference to the latest project from Roland Sands. It's called Mission 200 and the simple purpose is to take a Victory Hammer and run it up over the 200mph mark. They took off the forward controls and mounted rearsets, then grafted a fairing from one of Roland's old 250cc GP bikes, added a steering damper, wheels, … [Read more...]

300cc Inline 6 Cylinder by Guy Coulon – a 22000 RPM Race Engine Personal Project

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Guy Coulon is Colin Edwards' crew chief on the Tech3 Motogp team. When Guy isn't directing the building and maintenance of exotic race bikes, he spends his time exercising his skills building exotic engines and bikes for himself like this tube frame, 300cc inline 6 cylinder racer, an extremely impressive engineering project. I hesitate to use the word "homebuilt" since he … [Read more...]

Catalina Grand Prix 2010 Registration Now Open

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There's been a huge amount of interest in this year's running of the Catalina Grand Prix which has not been run since 1958. For the many of you who have been asking about when registration will be open, the answer is right now! Classes are as follows: Vintage Class – up to 1974 motorcycles ,modifications are allowed with the exception of the following modifications: … [Read more...]

XR1200 Race Series Shows Promise

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Look at the photo above, it's from the past weekend's XR1200 race at Mid-Ohio which was won by Danny Eslick. It certainly seems like some great racing action, there's nothing about it that indicates anything other than competitive racers fighting for position in this brand new series and that's exactly what I would expect. The neat thing about it is the fact they're on Harley … [Read more...]

Electric Motorcycles – Has Anything Really Changed?

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The TT Zero at the Isle of Man was won quite handily by the Motoczysz team, with their E1PC electric racer. Michael Czysz, illustrating what you get when you combine ample budgets and a very capable engineering team, put together a beautiful, high performance racing motorcycle. This is top shelf all the way. Electric motorcycle advocates are slapping each other on the back and … [Read more...]