Motorcycle Archive

  • Electrical vehicle concepts running rampant

    Electrical vehicle concepts running rampant

    Couple of things to talk about, Honda just announced that they are going to showing off an electric concept vehicle, and a Hungarian company is making a concept car that's capable of splitting in to two separate vehicles.

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  • DIY: Motorcycle cowling increase mileage, decrease sex appeal, exponentially

    DIY: Motorcycle cowling increase mileage, decrease sex appeal, exponentially

    This particular DIY project makes sense. It's been proven that in order to increase the MPG on your motorcycle (or scooter in this case), all you need to do it add a cowling. Cyclists use this concept in increase speed, the solar powered cars use this, it makes sense. That still doesn't mean that you should do it, at least, not in this color.

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  • More comedy from The Pirate Bay Sale: Key partner says there’s no money, CEO has property repossessed

    More comedy from The Pirate Bay Sale: Key partner says there’s no money, CEO has property repossessed

    Years from now, when the history of BitTorrent-related Internet piracy is written, there will have to be at least one chapter devoted to The Pirate Bay. It showed up just as the likes of Suprnova and LokiTorrent were being shut down, and quickly became the go-to place for, shall we say, the less savvy BitTorrent user. It also became a symbol of the copyright reform movement, though the site's cavalier attitude toward any sort of authority ultimately led to its undoing. (The whole “we're untouchable!” gimmick the site had played up was, we can now say, ill advised.)

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  • German geeks build electric bike, now want to sell it internationally

    German geeks build electric bike, now want to sell it internationally

    Two German engineers have managed to develop (without any external technological help or financial support) an electric bike that looks like a mix between a motorcycle and a mountain bike. The so-called Elmoto is powered by a 2KW engine and boasts a driving range of up to 65km with a single battery charge (which costs around $1).

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