As the Guerilla Drive-In has proven, sidecars have the ability to be cool. Unless you’re the one stuck riding bitch. Or it happens to be some sick combination of VW Golf GTI, an Audi 80 and a Citroen Xantia. See, Francois Knorreck decided his Laverda moto just didn’t have enough fugly. The Italian commenced to [...]
The Fiends over at Wired have gotten their hands on a quick clip of Mission Motors new track heathen during shake down at Infineon. The company has been working to get their Mission One electric moto in fighting form for the TTxGP green motorcycle grand prix June 12 on the Isle of Man. It’s hard [...]
I don’t have my moto license. Or a bike. Partly because my loverly fiancée says I have to get life insurance if I get one and partially because my list of cars to drive before I die is nowhere near satiated. Still, if you have to go, strapped to BMW’s newest moto wouldn’t be a [...]
That’s right. On ice. It seems Buell’s been working to turn itself from Harley-Davidson’s brow-wrinkling subsidiary into an actual player on the sport bike scene. The product of all that wrenchin’ is the 1125R, and to prove it’s got the guts to go toe to toe with what the best the rest of the moto [...]
Swapping the Fiendish 1.3-liter four-banger from the mighty Hayabusa into something with four wheels is nothing new, but it’s about to get a helluva lot easier. Hartley, an engineering firm here in the states, has take it upon itself to design a bottom end that bolts directly to an auto gear box. The benefits are [...]
While strolling the floor of the Long Beach Motorcycle show I was stopped in my tracks by a trio of café racers. Local boy, Roland Sands created these three customs from three different single cylinder dirt bikes. The monster is a Honda CR500 based water cooled two stroke. Somehow Roland uses the modern aluminum perimeter [...]
While Lieberman was strutting his stuff in a bright yellow Corvette at the Thunderhill 25 Hours and Mr Baruth was losing an eight hour enduro in Atlanta, I stayed a little closer to home and indulged my other petrol passion by wandering down to the Cycle World Motorcycle Show at the Long Beach Convention center. [...]
You’re looking at BMW’s foray into the world of owner-customizable bikes, the Lo Rider Concept. The company zipped out over 12 renderings to show just how vastly different the bike could become simply by swapping parts like saddles, exhausts and handlebars. The sketches show a new level of mean from BMW, which has traditionally stuck [...]
How do you get your Ducati Desmosedici RR MotoGP to the track? Sure, you could ride it. After all, the Desmosedici RR is one of the few road-legal Moto GP rigs out there. But then what would you do with your specially-designed, supercharged Toyota Tundra with 500 horsepower? As part of its offering to the [...]
If there’s one thing gearheads love more than the rides they wrench on, it’s show boating! Once I personally provided the entertainment at a party by giving all the inebriated rides in a ’73 ‘Vette, T-top (not mine). You know life’s good when it’s hard to tell who’s screaming louder — the passenger or the [...]
