The Kneeslider

Doers Builders and Positive People

Team MOMBA Swap Meet Superbike

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Building a racing motorcycle can be a great way to spend a lot of money, sometimes with little to show for it in the end if you're not careful and that's why it was interesting to see the Team MOMBA (Mid Ohio Motorcycle Build Attempt) project. I had heard of this quite a few months ago and forgot about it until the November issue of Motorcyclist magazine came out with a feature … [Read more...]

Electric Motorcycle from Derbi GPR 50

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There's a growing group of homebuilders who are converting vehicles of all sorts to electric power, motorcycles among them. This motorcycle is a Derbi GPR 50 where the builder removed the original drivetrain and installed 6 lead acid batteries, an electric motor and a DC converter. The video is a short walk around of the bike and then a ride around the neighborhood. The … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – ARC Fabrication

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ARC Fabrication is a small business run by Doug Cook with the assistance of his wife Sharon, another of those builders we don't often hear about but turning out frames and motorcycle parts for riders who happen to hear about their work. Doug is an ex-racer and his enthusiasm for motorcycles resulted in this business that centers around custom motorcycles and fabrication. He can … [Read more...]

Riwi Products Single Side Front Fork

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While digging around looking for interesting motorcyce parts I came across Riwi Products in Innsbruck, Austria. It looks as though they make a few different things like wheels and forks but the part they seem to be promoting the most is their single sided front fork (or front arm, can't be a fork with one side, I guess). Anyway, it looks interesting and shows one more variation … [Read more...]

Motorcycle Builders – Bob Horn

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Bob Horn sent in a couple of photos of a motorcycle he built back in 1991. As soon as I saw them, I knew I'd seen them before and, sure enough, the bike was featured in Motorcyclist magazine in October of that year. The bike you're looking at is Bob's proof of concept for some ideas he had about motorcycle steering and suspension and rather than getting into long winded debates … [Read more...]

Monotrack Experimental by Dan Hanebrink

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Came across this photo a while back and thought you might like to see some original thinking in the motorcycle design field, this is the Monotrack Experimental built back in the early seventies by Dan Hanebrink. The description on the Hanebrink site (no longer there) pretty much sums it up: In 1971 "Cycle News" publisher Chuck Clayton asked Costa Mesa, California … [Read more...]