After writing about Pete Larsen's new Honda Gold Wing powered Ace, it crossed my mind that another fellow, Robert Q. Riley, had been promoting DIY plans for a couple of three wheelers for several decades. Some of you likely remember those trikes and other similar projects appearing in the pages and on the cover of Mechanix Illustrated and Popular Mechanics magazines encouraging … [Read more...]
Building a Steam Trike From Recycled Parts
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...]
Would You Swap Your Internal Combustion Engine for an Electric Crate Motor?
Crate engines are common in the auto world, giving rebuilders and restorers an easy way to replace a tired or blown engine with something new and more powerful. Recently, Ford and GM have extended that idea to electric crate motors, so you can replace the entire internal combustion drivetrain in your car or truck with factory built electric power. GM has shown a couple of … [Read more...]
Did This Guy Really Build This Motorcycle From a Citroen 2CV in the Desert?
It's an (almost?) unbelievable story of ingenuity, of a man, Emile Leray, stranded in the Moroccan desert when his Citroen 2CV became disabled after hitting a rock and breaking an axle. With limited food and water, he decided his best option was to disassemble the car and create a two wheel vehicle, a motorcycle, he could ride to safety. It took him twelve days, but he managed … [Read more...]
Nmoto Golden Age Transforms a BMW Scooter Into an Art Deco Classic
Back in the 1930s, Orley Ray Courtney added some gorgeous bodywork to a Henderson KJ and created the rather sensuous Henderson Streamline. Whether or not it was practical, it was definitely beautiful. It also inspired quite a few builders over the years to try their hand at streamlining later motorcycles into a version of Courtney's vision. We pointed out one attempt based on a … [Read more...]
Liberty Motors Has a Brand New Website for the New ACE
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...]
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