A few weeks ago I write about a guy making motorcycle art from old computer parts, very cool stuff. Now, things like that just keep popping up. Here's a site, Metaldude, selling art made from scrap car parts, motorcycle parts and just plain old scrap metal. There are several motorcycle pieces but there's a lot of other work, too. The sci-fi section is very weird with 7 foot … [Read more...]
Home made jet engines
This post has little to do with motorcycles but I think it's a great example of what a creative tool guy can do in his shop. Mark Nye has a business building attachments for heavy equipment, a good business, pays the bills and keeps him in enough tools and shop equipment to enable him to build stuff like turbojet engines out of truck turbochargers. Gee, I like that. His website … [Read more...]
E.J. Potter – The Michigan Madman
With all of this talk of stuffing bike engines in cars and car engines in bikes and who knows what else, I recalled a fellow from long ago who gained some notoriety doing drag strip exhibitions, E.J.Potter. What most people remember of him is his Chevy powered bike, the "Widow Maker," doing smoke filled quarter miles. It was pretty neat. He had a small block Chevy sideways in … [Read more...]
Motorcycle crate engines
We need motorcycle crate engines. For quite a while now, if you got the urge to rebuild a car, all you had to do is pick up a catalog from any one of a lot of companies, choose the engine you want, displacement, horsepower, mild or wild and with the stroke of a check have a completely rebuilt, modified and guaranteed engine sitting in your driveway a few days later. Even the … [Read more...]
Make Magazine finally arrives
Way back here I mentioned the upcoming release of Make Magazine, devoted to those of us who like tools and taking things apart and finding out how stuff works and most importantly, how to build neat new things to solve some problem or just to see if we could. My first issue finally arrived yesterday. It has all kinds of hacks, computer, electronic, mechanical, just a lot of … [Read more...]
Hayabusa and ZX12R vs. Modified Viper
Some folks do not believe how fast,... how really, really fast, today's bikes are. Here is a video of a lot of comparison runs between several different Hayabusas from stock to big bore and nitrous and one ZX12R, highly modified as well, racing against a Viper coupe with supercharger and lots of engine mods and 883 rear wheel horsepower. The stock Busa hangs with him, the Viper … [Read more...]
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