Privateer's Garage is a great idea. The concept is simple, you have a motorcycle and technical know how but no good place to work or you don't have the right tools for many repairs or upgrades you would like to do yourself. Located in San Diego, California, Privateer's Garage provides a fully equipped garage with lifts, professional tools, parts and whatever else you need for … [Read more...]
Cardboard Motorcycles and Scooters
As the weather turns a bit chilly and you're looking for an indoor hobby, how about building a motorcycle in your living room where it's warm or maybe the spare bedroom? Before your significant other starts threatening to kick your butt out into that cold garage, explain it's just a cardboard sculpture and besides, you're doing your part to recycle at the same time. Along … [Read more...]
Female Mechanics Calendar 2009
Sarah Lyon just let me know her 2009 Female Mechanics Calendar is available. I mention this every year because I think it's a neat project. This is the 3rd year for the calendar showcasing real female mechanics, not the swimsuit clad babes with a wrench, these are women fixing everything from motorcycles to Ferraris to tugboats and commercial jets. Sarah started doing this … [Read more...]
How to Get Rid of Rust in Motorcycle Gas Tanks
Ever look inside the gas tank of an old motorcycle and see nothing but rust? It's really common and there are products out there to either get rid of the rust or supposedly coat and seal the tank. Well, maybe, but, since a chemical reaction caused it, why not reverse the whole process and really get rid of it? I was flipping through the pages of the latest Motorcyclist … [Read more...]
Homebuilt Motorcycle Dynamometer
How many projects begin this way? You see something that looks cool and think, "I bet I could build one of those" and next thing you know you're making sketches. Steve, a motorcyclist from Melbourne, Australia, watched a motorcycle dyno shootout and figured he could build his own dynamometer, how hard could it be? Well, it took him 3 years but he did it, he finally had his own … [Read more...]
Honda Gold Wing Jet Fighter
There's very little I can say about this. Take one Honda Gold Wing and turn it into a ground bound jet fighter, ... kinda, sorta. He has the sound worked out pretty well, there's a 12,000 rpm turbine inside with a microphone next to it, creating the illusion of a jet on the taxiway. He doesn't cite performance figures except to say he wouldn't take it over 80 mph on the … [Read more...]
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