Victory Vision

I've been thinking about getting a Honda Gold Wing. This is way cooleer. Victory Vision

Electric Bike

Bobster Trike by Zeel Design

I love this trike. It reminds me of my big wheel when I was a kid.
Zeel Design

Yamaha Midnight Warrior

Stock


Custom


Sport meets cruiser in the all-black version of the four-time AMA Prostar drag racing champion. Can I get a hell yeah?

Canjamoto BMW Scorpion

Starting with a BMW R1200S, CANJAMOTO (Canadian Jamaican Motorsports), a company based in Toronto, Canada did a little bodywork and came up with what they call the Scorpion. It has no gauges, all information is to be provided via a heads up display and no windscreen is fitted, though different windscreens will be available depending on intended use.

Street and Racing models will be available in 2008, the turbo version is said to produce 160 horsepower at the rear wheel. Weight is 410 pounds.

Turbo Diesel Motorcycle

Neander Motors
With diesel engines gaining more of the spotlight, let’s take a closer look at another diesel, the Neander turbo diesel motorcycle. A number of readers have pointed out this bike before which has been around for a while in prototype form but their intention is to begin production in limited quantities later this year so what do they have to offer?

Neander Motors looked at diesels and saw small displacement diesel engines of the one, two or three cylinder variety underrepresented in most applications. The major reasons were weight and vibration. Although ideal in large displacement and stationary applications, you didn’t see many diesels in small watercraft, ATVs and, of course, motorcycles. Rather than trying to fit an existing diesel into those roles, they designed a new diesel engine with the idea of low weight and vibration as goals, the result is a twin counter-rotating crankshaft design that looks like they might have come up with a winner.

Neander Motors Turbo Diesel MotorcycleThey’ve built a vertical parallel twin cylinder diesel, which would be plagued with far too much vibration in the configuration and displacement chosen, yet the counter rotating crankshafts all but cancel the majority of the vibration. And this is no computer model, the engine has been built, tested and installed in a prototye motorcycle which has been showing up around Europe in a variety of venues where folks could get a look at it.

The final configuration is a 1400cc, twin cam, four valve per cylinder, vertical twin turbo diesel with intercooling producing 100hp and 144 foot pounds of torque at 2600rpm. It looks nice without some of the bulky and clunky appearance you might expect when you hear the word diesel. Performance figures are quoted on their site as 0-60mph in approximately 4 seconds. Not bad for a cruiser and sure to improve as the engine is refined.

The engine, as set up in the bike, is equipped with particulate filters for low emissions. The bike will have a six speed transmission and belt final drive.

Although the bike they plan to produce will not look exactly like the prototype and is only presented in computer images, it is similar in appearance to the prototype which doesn’t look bad as is.

They have not set a price yet which I imagine might be rather high but whether or not this bike succeeds as a sales hit, it may very well succeed as a great demonstration platform to prove the viability of their new twin crank diesel design. If it does that, they might find huge markets in many other areas and at the same time other companies may want to source their engine for use in a diesel motorcycle of their own.

You don't get more custom than this- GC Hellion

In February I posted Gregg Desjardins' GC1000 which made quite a buzz in the motorcycle industry. The only problem was people were calling it an Honda RC-51 custom. It's not like you call a Buell a Harley or a West Coast Chopper an SS.

Enter the Helion. It has a Yamaha V-Star Warrior engine yet almost everything else is hand built by Gregg. Gregg's goal is form and function and it shows.

FRONT END
Handmade chromoly frame and sub frame, Marzocchi 50mm forks, Performance Machine radial calipers, 320mm full-floating front rotors with custom-made wheel-matching billet carriers, PVM billet radial brake and clutch master cylinders, Gregg's Customs "Skyway" wheel.
REAR END
Handmade Chromoly swing arm, Penske Racing shock with titanium spring, Performance Machine caliper, custom full-floating counter shaft-mounted rotor, Honda CR450F master cylinder, Gregg's Customs 250mm "Skyway" wheel.
MOTOR
Yamaha Road Star Warrior Engine, Power Commander, custom made velocity stack air filters, custom exhaust, custom relocated oil tank, hydraulic clutch conversion
PAINT
Craig Fraser and Air Syndicate
BODYWORK
Gregg's Customs .062" aluminum fuel tank and tail section, Harley V-Rod front headlight with handmade titanium brackets
ACCESSORIES
Grip Ace grips, Corbin seats, Gregg's Customs engine covers, triple clamps, risers, bar ends, tailight lens
BUILDER
Gregg Desjardins at Gregg's Customs

Wheely Time

How to do a Wheely

Power Plant Choppers

Power Plant Choppers
Check it out.

Reverse trike motorcycle club

T-rex is my favorite. What's yours?
Reverse Trike Club

T-Rex (amy won't let me get one til I buy a house)

I've been thinking about what I should do about my Kawasaki zx7r. I started researching reverse trikes and came up on the t-rex. The power to weight ratio of a motorcycle, the protective frame and precision handling of a race car.
T-Rex
Daddy Likes

Cafe CB 750

This one's for Ryan.

Wakan 1640

Drop an American powerplant into a sporty euro frame and this is what you get. Wakan

Arlen and Cory Ness finally put out their own production bikes

http://www.arlenness.com/

V-Rex dreambike

http://www.gizmag.com/go/6919/

March 4, 2007 This is a story of two men, one a dreamer, and the other a mechanical genius, from opposite sides of the globe joining forces to bring something new and astounding to the streets of America. It starts back in December of 2003, in Sydney, Australia when 3D designer Tim Cameron sketched a cruiser motorcycle on a scrap of paper. A pure flight of fancy, Cameron drew out an aggressively poised, extreme, low- riding design. As an out-of-hours project, using his 3D computer modelling skills, Cameron began to build what he called his ‘dream bike’ in the only place he thought it could ever exist, the self-contained virtual 3D world inside his computer. He spent 2 months ‘building’ the design in 3D down to the bolt heads, in a type of program normally used for Hollywood-type special effects, to create photo-realistic images of the bike so convincing that the average person would be hard pressed to pick them from the real thing. These images attracted the interest of an Australian custom bike magazine, Ozbike, and became the basis for an 8-page cover story. This story in turn generated interest internationally and the images went on to be published by leading motorcycle magazines in 10 different countries around the world. This all by itself was a satisfying result for Cameron, but pales considerably in comparison with what was about to happen next!

Metric Revolution

Check out this Beast of a Busa put together by C&S Customs. Now a days you can do more to a busa than a custom Harley. This is a good example.

http://www.candscustom.com/

Gregg DesJardins GC1000

Gregg's Customs owner Gregg DesJardins may be a newbie to most readers but we can assure you that he won't remain so for long. After years of honing his skills making aftermarket parts for various sportbike applications, DesJardins needed a place to hang them, something to show-off what GC was capable of. The result was this fabulous RC51-powered, custom-framed bike he calls the GC-1000.

As detailed in the March issue, the GC shows a new direction for customs builders. DesJardins has basically applied a chopper build ethic to sportbikes. While most custom sportbikes used to fall in to the paint-n-pipe category, we're now seeing the kind of attention previously lavished on choppers. The GC bike takes it step farther, with frame, swingarm, tank and tailsection—heck, even the taillight!—all hand-fabbed by the builder.

From the story: “The tank you see here, believe it or not, was his first attempt. After seeing it in person we almost didn't believe him, swearing up-and-down that he'd made a hundred before it. It's that good.”

We can't wait to see what he does next.

http://www.cycleworld.com/article.asp?section_id=3&article_id=278

Capricorn Cycle Works

Check out this Rim. This is the coolest wheel I've ever seen. Click the link to see it in motion.

Capricorncyclo-works.com

Exile Cycles-Brown Pearl

Russel Mitchel has done it again. Notice the hidden cables and simple style.
www.exilecycle.com