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Electric motorcycle by Entertia

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

If you are wanting to join the ‘green team’ and still ride your motorcycle you might want to check out a new offering from Enertia Bike. You can find their web site here.
According to Enertia, a regular motorcycle is about two-times more efficient than an automobile. But Enertia claims it’s electric motorcycle is [...]

Enter to win an American IronHorse BANDERA in Sturgis

Friday, July 27th, 2007

My friend Jeff over at BikerDATA.com and BikerDollsGoneWild.com was telling me about this chance to win an American IronHorse Bandera and I wanted to pass it on to the readers of Beatnik Biker.
According to Jeff, here is all you need to do:

Find the American IronHorse show truck, which will be located at 4th & Lazelle [...]

2008 HD model speculation

Friday, July 6th, 2007

With the announcement of the 2008 models coming up next week, there is an abundance of thoughts out there as to what will and won’t be in next years Harley line-up. So I decided to go ahead a put my prediction out there. Not anything real specific, mind you, but one of the [...]

Fire-breathing dragon bike

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Fellow blogger, and fellow MBI member, Mike over at Bikes in the Fast Lane is looking for a little help about a motorcycle I mentioned to him a couple of weeks ago. You can find his blog request here.
I was watching the Space Shuttle Tribute episodes of American Chopper and saw this fire-breathing dragon [...]

2008 Harley-Davidson Models

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

In documents from the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board, we have a listing of what may be H-D’s 2008 lineup of bikes. You can download the pdf documents off the California Air Resources site here. They are also included for download below.
The documents, ‘Executive Orders”, have to do with meeting emissions [...]

Boot Camp for chopper building

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

Although they don’t field a football team (or any other athletic team that I can tell), Chopper College looks like a fun place to go. You can find their web site here.
So, what is Chopper College you ask? Well, according to info on the site, it is an intensive, three-day course that provides [...]

Harley Nightster in Fast Company

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

The May 2007 issue of Fast Company magazine has a nice piece about Rich Christoph, the 27 year old lead designer of the new Harley Nightster. You can find the link here.
In the article, Christoph says his goal with the Nightster was to create a bike that people were inspired to ride. He [...]

Pic of Bio Diesel Motorcycle

Monday, May 21st, 2007

Found this picture of a bio diesel motorcycle over at Biker-Events.com.
Doesn’t look like it would handle very well to me. But the concept is an interesting one. And it does look pretty aerodynamic.
Bio Diesel Motorcycle picture [via Biker-Events.com]

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Special Edition Triumph Street Fighter

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Cyril is reporting over on his site, Cyril Huse Blog, that Triumph will be offering a Special Edition Street Fighter in June.
Limited to only 50 units, the Special Edition Speed Triple 1050 is priced at only $11,999.
See Cyril’s site for more info.
Custom Triumph Street Fighter You Can Buy [via Cyril Huse Blog]

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New American IronHorse Models

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about our tour of the American IronHorse factory and about their soon to be released new models. Well, it appears that the new models are ready to go as they are now on the American IronHorse web site.
The new models in the Rally Series include the Bandera, [...]

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