Recumbent motorcycles are nothing new, but most (all?) efforts are focused on street legal machines. Bob Horn, though, is proof there is at least one (feet) forward thinking builder, who has been working for the past half dozen years to design, build and test a recumbent racer. His persistence and dedication finally paid off when he recently lined up against conventional … [Read more...]

Putting a V8 engine in a motorcycle is easy, just build a bike big enough, like a Boss Hoss, and you can wrap it around anything, though as one recent home build, the Simca V8 shows, with a bit more thought and finesse, the results are a lot more pleasing. On the other hand, Ian Drysdale, the Australian engineering wizard, takes the idea of a V8 motorcycle to an entirely … [Read more...]

Every now and then, someone starts thinking a motorcycle and a snowmobile should get together, you know, big 2 stroke power stuffed into a motorcycle frame, just because it's the right thing to do. Of course, if you're a fabricator and machinist by trade, you can do a lot more than think about it, you can just do it. Brent Soper had a Suzuki VX800 and his wife, Tammy, … [Read more...]

Norman Hossack decided to show us what a trellis frame Ducati could look like by engineering a front suspension with trellis uprights. You get all of the performance advantages of a hossack suspension plus lighter weight. One glance at the finished product and the visual symmetry of the combination makes you wonder why Ducati didn't build it like this to begin with. If … [Read more...]