a do-everything box that fits most cars. Like a Swiss Army Knife, only better.
continue reading not a bike, but the neatest "mini motorhome" ever...
Peugeot EX1 concept car... like something a less-tough, mildly douchy Batman would drive
Fast... the way bikes are supposed to be.
Let's look at the ad, yes.
Brammo Empulse page
Need I reiterate my love for REAL bikes. Riders, not show bikes. FONZICHI is about as real as you get.
Spotted in Carroll Gardens in all it's glory.
I like this bike. Mid-size SOHC fours are cool in any style. This one eats nails for breakfast.
The gods of war are much pleased with Fonzichi.
When the city of Philly was having a hard time financing the building of new cars on it's relaunch of the 15 line ("Girard Avenue trolley"), some genius came up with the idea "Let's just Hot Rod the old ones!"
So they took some shells of old 1940's era PCC trolleys, did some blasting and sanding, cutting and shutting.
Painting, pimping, retro-fitting.
They ended up with the sweetest Public Transpo hack of the last decade: The rebirth of the old school Philly trolley car - complete with modern newfangled air conditioning.
The Broad Street subway and Frankford Ave "El" gets you to Girard Ave on the north side of town.
Not satisfied with the 20-something horsepower in your lightweight Yamaha WR250X supermoto?
Morgan Performance Fabrication makes a turbo kit for them.
Me likey.
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This sweet 4-wheeled thing.
Crashing would be a bitch. Try not to do that.
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continue reading What rides like a Formula car and feels like a bike?...
K models and WRs... with their racing heritage, they come loaded with tradition and emotional context.
Here are two fine takes on these platforms - from Japan. A cafe K and a WR bobber.
Tough street machines, not shiny trailer queens.
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Previously set to be distributed by Qlink... now Bennche (pronounced "Ben-chee" I think), the swoopy little Megellis are rolling out here and now in the U.S. at $3200 USD for the supermoto "M" model.
18 month unlimited mile warranty on the horribly expensive bits (crankshaft, piston, heads, cams). That sounds good - focusing on creating a reliable dealer network and a service-oriented approach is the right way to go.
Now for something completely stupid:
an INSANE, suicidal test ride in Bali.
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continue reading the Megellis are here... the Megellis are here....
A really cool history of the Moto Guzzi V8 Grand Prix bike of 1955.
But not, as the coverage suggests, the only "futuristic" V8 bike in history.
In fact you have to go back another 50 years to 1907 and Glenn Curtiss' horribly dangerous looking land speed record bike to find the first V8 motorcycle.
Touratech G450X Supermoto
Pieces to transform a BMW G450X.
Up close to a stock G450X, taking in it's lean, lithe form and intense detail of engineering - that's when I realized what this machine was about. Seeing it in the window of a dealership near Wall Street one night last Fall, I was transfixed. I imagined what it would be like as a Supermoto.
Imagination no longer necessary.
(The 2010 enduro is 49 state legal, on and off road... just add rims and tires and a big disk, baby.)
breaking from my normal bike-centric neanderthal routine, I'm having a temporary fascination with Road Whales.
Little Euro road whales, cool and fun looking and extremely fuel efficient.
I like these things. But they are "truck bait" in America with all the bloated over-sized hardware rolling the interstates.
None of these are available in the U.S.
stupid
Wheelhome' Skamper (Fiat Fiorino)
Romahome
Joey (Renault Kangoo mini-camper)
li'l campers
The results for the recent Mid America motorcycle auction in Las Vegas are interesting.
Some people couldn't bear to part with their precious at any price.
But someone snagged a late 70s XR750 for a cool $17K, and there was plenty of under-$8K semi-old iron that moved, so not all the reserve prices were up in the stratosphere.
Seeing what DIDN'T meet reserve, that gorgeous Harley Peashooter that sold for $25.5K seems like a steal.
All the old motorcycle-icious.blogspot.com links still work - they forward to this new domain motorcyclicio.us.
Remember the movie That Thing You Do, how the band wanted to name themselves "The Oneders" (pronounced "ONE-ders"... Wonders). Except everyone mispronounced it as The "oh-NEE-ders."
Yeah. It's sorta like that.
Oh well.
Kiehl's New YorkMy girlfriend likes to go to Kiehl's sometimes to get chick stuff - you know: lotions and crap. I don't mind her being a "slow-eee" shopper when we're there because they have antique motorcycles on display (which I always obsess over).
109 Third Avenue
Between 13th & 14th Streets
New York, NY 10003
First the Genius model, now the MY16 with bigger 16" wheels. The top of the line model has an 8-speed Shimano Nexus hub.
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I like the ability to pop on and off the subway with a small footprint and no fuss. Why are these not readily available in the U.S. ?
This Deus tracker with a surfboard rack (???!!).
I guess riding a badass tracker isn't enough cred. You gotta be headed for the beach to get in some surfing too. If that ain't enough, you can grow a full beard and smoke unfiltered Camels... start dating Supermodels. Whatever it takes.
Yeah, I'd lose the surfboard rack. The rest is about as simple and perfect as you get.
Spotted at Smith+Butler, a Brooklyn "biker chic" store for refined and dandy gentleman in Boerum Hill. Or is that Cobble Hill?
errr... Carroll Gardens?
I dunno. Somewhere above my pay grade is all I know. Check it out if you got the scratch.
and now for some very non-foppish, non-dandy action. The real deal:
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My sister sent me a video of a kid, not yet 2 years old, riding a motorcycle. Youtube has a bunch of videos of kids on OSET trials bikes - they are electric powered and pretty damn awesome.
The video above is of a highly skilled child, but if you go through the youtube archive you'll find some nutter children doing dangerous things. Some o' them parents need to invest in moto-x armor and full face helmets for their DangerFreak larvae.
It seems to me that using 6061 aluminum plate is a genius design decision for the Comoto by Hirsch design. Being primarily a bolt-together affair it should translate well to scalability of manufacturing, allowing for economical low production runs.
It looks mean too... if a bike don't look tough, what's the point? This one's got looks. It's just ASKING for a badass paint job. I'm thinking Metalflake with a naked Aztec princess on an alter on the side panels.
At 118 pounds total weight and a 40MPH+ top speed, it is essentially a fast bike with no cranks. Municipalities will have to get on track with defining new categories of rules governing the many different types of electric motorcycles and bicycle-hybrids. Are they bicycles? Are they motorcycles? Is the defining factor weight or speed?
The "New Normal" points to a flood in the market of 3rd-gen cheap knockoffs of e-bikes and e-motos in a few years. At least that's what I'm hoping for: a two-wheel electrified bike renaissance not unlike the original "wheelman" bicycle phenomena of the 1880s.
And for those who say that a no-crank bike is for the lazy and weak... you obviously have never jumped a full sized motorcycle up or down a curb or ridden a dirt bike down a flight of concrete steps. Moto-ing is hard work.
I'd like to try some of these under-200-pound machines on the streets (and sidewalks and concrete steps) of NYC.
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