Cafe racer is lightweight and often lightly powered motorcycle that is characterized by speed and agility and at one point in the 60s, bikers started using cafe racer to make quick rides between cafe (or cafe hopping, as some prefer to call it). Those what you and I know about cafe racers, but now, a custom bike maker See See Motorcycles, over in Oregon kind of take cafe racer a little more literally. How? By installing a coffee machine in a Ural sidecar. Continue reading See See Motorcycles’ Ural Is A Literal Cafe Racer, Because Coffee Machine
Category Archives: MOTORCYCLES
Two-wheel engine or electric powered vehicle that can go pretty fast and sometimes exist in three or four wheels form.
Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle Will Be Launch In 2019
American bike maker, Harley-Davidson, first unveiled its plan to get into the electric movement with Project LiveWire back in 2014. Fast forward to 2018, the company confirms that the 2014 concept will be available as soon as next year. However, while there is light at the end of the tunnel for the 4-year-old concept, details remain scarce at this point. Words had it that it will be a connected bike with connectivity between your smartphone and the motorcycle via Bluetooth technology, allowing you to take calls, leverage on the smartphone’s navigation app and whatnot. Continue reading Harley-Davidson’s First Electric Motorcycle Will Be Launch In 2019
Pocket Rocket Is An Electric Bike Like You Never Seen Before
What’s your impression of electric motorcycles? They look like ordinary motorcycles but powered by electric motor? You are not wrong. But that is set to change with Stuttgart-based electric bike maker Sol Motor’s Pocket Rocket. It may look like an ebike with a design similar to Uni Micro’s newest example, but it is not. It is way too fast to be an ebike and it isn’t a moped either, cos’ it has no pedals. But then again, it isn’t fast enough to be a full-fledged electric motorcycle. Continue reading Pocket Rocket Is An Electric Bike Like You Never Seen Before
Image: Troy Corser And Herbert Schwab Astride A BMW R 57 Kompressor At Goodwood Revival
An image showing Australian racing legend Troy Corser and Herbert Schwab riding on a BMW R 57 Kompressor to an overall win at the Barry Sheen Memorial Trophy at Goodwood Revival. The first race on that Saturday saw the duo coming in at third place after a false start, but on the second race on Sunday, Corser and Schwab took the chequered flag. Continue reading Image: Troy Corser And Herbert Schwab Astride A BMW R 57 Kompressor At Goodwood Revival
You Heard Of Autonomous Cars, Now Meet The Autonomous Motorcycle
Autonomous cars are not new, but an autonomous motorcycle? Well, that’s new and kind of bizarre too. Bizarre because, a motorcycle making the journey without a person makes it look like scene from Scooby-Doo. But rest assure, BMW self-riding motorcycle is anything but supernatural. So, yeah. Self-riding motorcycle is a thing now and apparently, it has been in the development for the past two years. BMW posted a video of it in action and it looks totally unreal. Continue reading You Heard Of Autonomous Cars, Now Meet The Autonomous Motorcycle
Hera Is Curtiss’ All-Electric Motorcycle That Has “V8 Battery”
Do you know Curtiss Motorcycle Company? No? How about Confederate Motorcycles then? Curtiss Motorcycles was formerly known as Confederate Motorcycles, the company that made ridiculously good-looking two-wheelers. Now that you know that, you also need to know it now makes electric motorcycles and the ride here, called Hera, is the company’s upcoming all-electric flagship that boasts the “world’s first V8 battery.” Continue reading Hera Is Curtiss’ All-Electric Motorcycle That Has “V8 Battery”
Kalashnikov Has A Civilian Electric Bike And A Twizy-like Electric Car
Famed Russian maker of the super robust assault rifle AK-47, Kalashnikov just can’t stop churning out more news. But no, it is not turning out more killing machines. Instead, it has a black-and-red themed civilian electric motorcycle based on the made-for-military and law enforcement electric two-wheel off-roader revealed last year. Continue reading Kalashnikov Has A Civilian Electric Bike And A Twizy-like Electric Car
This Crazy Hubless Motorcycle Is Powered By An Airplane Engine
What you see here is not a motorcycle from any sci-fi movies. It is a real custom bike from former Formula 1 race car driver, Brazilian Tarso Marques. Man, this man here sure has a major thing for custom bikes. In fact, he also have the knack for customizing automobiles and even helicopters too. Marques may not have a stellar performance in Formula 1, but we are glad the world of customization has him. Speaking of which, Marques is no stranger in creating out-of-this-world looking motorcycle, but this bike here, called Tarso Marque Concepts (TMC) Dumont, is very likely his craziest because, insanely thin hubless wheels and airplane engine. ’nuff said. Continue reading This Crazy Hubless Motorcycle Is Powered By An Airplane Engine
This Futuristic Electric Motorcycle Makes An Astonishing 250-Mile-Range
Electric car can hardly make the ideal mileage even with the space it has to pack more batteries. Having said that, an electric motorcycle’s performance in the rages department is far worst and that is precisely the problem a bunch of engineering students from ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) and industrial design students from the Zurich University of the Arts, lead by Dr. Josef Mayr, wants to tackle with their electric motorcycle called ethec. Continue reading This Futuristic Electric Motorcycle Makes An Astonishing 250-Mile-Range
This Gorgeous Custom Harley-Davidson Cost As Much As A Supercar
Would you pay over a million for a custom motorcycle? Probably not, but I am sure there is someone who will, though that person would have to have a thing for Harley-Davidson and don’t mind it looking all blue and shiny. Like, super shiny. The Bucherer x Bündnerbike Blue Edition Harley-Davidson you see here is a result of a collaboration between Swiss luxury watch and jewelry brand Bucherer and Swiss Harley-Davidson customizer Bündnerbike. Continue reading This Gorgeous Custom Harley-Davidson Cost As Much As A Supercar