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Building a Steam Trike From Recycled Parts

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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

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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...]

Liberty Motors ACE From Pete Larsen With Mid Mounted Gold Wing Flat Six

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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

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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...]

Yamaha Buys Patent For Brudeli Leanster

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If you're a very long time reader of The Kneeslider, you may remember when we wrote about the Brudeli Leanster way back in 2006 and 2008. The leaning 3 wheeler showed a great deal of promise from a company that was literally started in a garage by Geir Brudeli and some of his friends. A few days ago Geir sent me a note announcing some extremely good news, it seems the work he's … [Read more...]