After writing about Pete Larsen's new Honda Gold Wing powered Ace, it crossed my mind that another fellow, Robert Q. Riley, had been promoting DIY plans for a couple of three wheelers for several decades. Some of you likely remember those trikes and other similar projects appearing in the pages and on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics magazines encouraging … [Read more...]
Building a Steam Trike From Recycled Parts
If you have a pile of old motorcycle parts, some tubing, an old steel drum, the seat from a junk car, you might think it's time to get it all hauled away, so you can get serious about building your next project, right? But wait, why not upcycle this junk and turn it into parts? Professor Pardal in Brazil did exactly that, he looked at all of this and saw a steam powered trike … [Read more...]
Liberty Motors Has a Brand New Website for the New ACE
Pete Larsen's new ACE has a new home on the interwebs at LibertyMotors.us. As we noted before, he was so busy designing and building the new ACE, putting a website together had to wait, and after a previous promise fell through, he took matters into his own hands and built it himself and I have to say, he did a really nice job. For those of you who want a bit more detail … [Read more...]
Pete Larsen’s New Liberty ACE Combines Art and Engineering with Retro Racer Style
The new Liberty ACE is one of those projects that makes you stop and stare and then smile and the story of its origins is fascinating, giving us some real insight into what's involved when someone has a picture in his mind and decides to build it. After completing 13 of his original Liberty ACE Cycle Cars, what Pete Larsen considered a modern update to the Morgan 3 … [Read more...]
Liberty Motors ACE From Pete Larsen With Mid Mounted Gold Wing Flat Six
Veterans of The Kneeslider will remember the articles we had about Pete Larsen's Cycle Car, built to be a modern update to the Morgan 3 Wheeler. It was so good, in fact, that Morgan bought it from Pete and the Morgan 3 Wheelers now sold from the factory are based on Pete's design. Well after all of that, Pete didn't sit in front of the TV with a bag of chips, he went back to … [Read more...]
Amazing Motorcycle Concepts From Lien Ying-Te
Concept motorcycles are everywhere, with easy access to CAD software and 3D rendering tools, now everyone is a designer, or so they like to believe, but every now and then a real CAD master offers up a few ideas that are just gorgeous. Lien Ying-Te is one of those masters and the concepts shown here are just a few of hundreds he's done that will blow you away. Fantastic skill, … [Read more...]
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