By now, most of you have seen the Smartuki, the GSXR1000 powered Smart car previously owned by Peter Bee and designed and built at Z Cars. That amazing little 180hp rocket was quite the car. If you've followed things here, you also know the Smartuki was up for sale and has since been sold. At the present time, the original Smartuki has gone to Sweden and is being used as part … [Read more...]
Big Twin Racers – American Sport Bikes in a kit!
When we last wrote about Curt Winter's Big Twin Racers, we showed you some in progress photos of his "Carver" prototype. Well Curt has come quite a way since then and has decided to offer his bikes in kit form for the builders out there who want to build a bike but can't see themselves on a chopper. Curt's bikes are definitely not choppers. These are sport bikes using the same … [Read more...]
Hayabusa V8 for the DP1
It's been a while since doing any updates on Dennis Palatov's DP1 project so I thought I would stop by and see what's up. Wow. If you're not familiar with the DP1, it's a track car designed and built by Dennis Palatov with a carbon fiber body and a Suzuki Hayabusa engine. Extremely high end design work and engineering involved here, and he's going to produce them for sale, too. … [Read more...]
YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005
Yamaha just held the YAMAHA World Technician Grand Prix 2005, where technicians from 23 countries competed against one another to see who fared best. From the news release: The contents of this year' s contest included (1) a written test of technology, product and motorcycle industry knowledge (60 min.), (2) a practical skills test of pre-delivery machine preparation, … [Read more...]
Bad Brothers YSR Jetbike
When many of us hear the words jetbike or turbine powered bike, we think of Jay Leno riding around on his megabuck two wheeler powered by a helicopter turbine. Now that's a very neat bike and given the opportunity, I'd love to ride it. Most of us, though, have far less money but some guys have lots of ingenuity, and that's when interesting things start to happen. Quite a while … [Read more...]
Neodymics bike to moped conversion unit – BMU
Got an email the other day from Jeff Radtke. Jeff has a company up in Madison, Wisconsin called Neodymics and he's been busy designing and building a bike to moped conversion unit (a BMU), that quickly converts a standard bicycle into a moped. When I say quickly, I mean in seconds. All you do is flip your quick release lever and drop out the front wheel, put the BMU in its … [Read more...]
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