An electric superbike beats Ducati 1198 and KTM RC8 in a race in the states, with a top speed of 158 mph. Here’s the video. I said electric bikes are getting more popular. I didn’t realise they were pocket rockets already.
A video of the top ten craziest motorbikes.
While I was at the Kitchen Cafe tucked away among the super bikes and cruisers was a little gem, a Moto Morini sport 3 1/2. At first glance it looked like it had been restored but having spoken with the owner it was in original condition apart from some wear on the seat and a couple of holes in the faring where the mirrors go. By the way, if there is anybody that has a pair of original mirrors, off/near side get in touch as the owner is looking for a pair!
The season for biking is closing. Bikers are disappearing from the roads as they put their bikes to bed until next year. It is now the time to put right all the bits of damage you picked up on your plastic through the summer. If you leave it, you will forget untill it is time to take the bike out for the new season. loosing days that could be better spent riding your favorite roads.
Yes we can!
From time to time we are asked, can you repair this or that and in many cases we can, as long as it is a thermo plastic. We are plastic welding specialists first; who just happen to have a good reputation for repairing motor bike farings. We also “make good” bumpers .
Some of the other types of repair we have completed:
A repair to a canoe that had been nearly split in two. (and it rhymes)
A close friend cracked the wing tip of his light aircraft while he was giving it re-spray and overhaul.
A gentleman with a camper van came to us with a badly melted water tank.
Some of the more odd ball repairs we have done, a beard trimmer, the wheel housing on a folding push chair, A bucket! yes that’s right! not just any old bucket, but one from a jet ski; a Dyson vacuüm cleaner hose clip catch.
We have also fabricated things. A large water tray for a photographer; some mud guards for a mountain bike. Some requests are turned down because it is not practical or cost affective to do.
People have asked if we can adapt/customise farings and bumpers. Yes we can and have done so; adapting a Suzuki GSXR nose cone, so a set of Honda fox-eye headlights could be fitted.! A bumper from a late-model V.W Golf to fit an older one.! The list is long but we don’t want to bore you so that’s it for now!
Just recently we have had a run in with a customer who had not researched his options properly before sending us his farings, causing a lot of problems in the way he handled his contact with us; I should say lack of it!
He gets the plastic spoon award from us for having to invoke storage fees for the first time. His lack of communication with us bought this about. We are quite easy-going about people leaving their farings with us as long as they make their intention clear from the out set. The up shot of this is that now we have three CBR farings dumped on us.
It would be prudent to do these things first: Check the price of new panels? Can I get them second-hand? What’s the cost of repair?
Our experience is that some farings are cheaper to buy new than repair in one-off cases but not necessarily for multiple’s of damaged panels. We have never competed with the second-hand market, so if someone enquiries and then says its cheaper second-hand, then buy it, but not all second-hand farings are the bargain you think they are!
It is not that well-known among the wider biker community that we were the first to put a set of foxeyes ( head lights from a Honda fireblade) into a Suzuki GSXR 11oo nose cone. We were also the first to do it using sheet thermo plastic, moulding it to fit an existing faring and welding these parts into place giving it durability and strength and above all that distinctive sexy look.
See post Old Friend for picture of faring.
I only discovered recently that the nose cone was still about, in good condition and in one piece. But sadly not on the bike it was made for. It turns out that it is sitting on a shelf in someones garage looking for a new GSXR home.
If anyone one has a GSXR project and would like a sexy looking nose cone, get intouch. Please do contact me, I will try to put you intouch with its owner.
GSXR nose cone custom
Alan and myself have been friends for a long time. But for some unknown reason lost touch some years back.
It all started with a phone call on the merits of fiberglass over molded plastic for motor bike custom work. This conversation came about due to an accident that damaged the nose cone to his bike. After a long chat Alan decided to convert his Suzi GSXR 1100 nose cone to accept a set of Honda Foxeyes.
Over the following months as I sculpted the faring to take its new head lights, Alan visited with the rest of the bike to test fit the nose cone; we became good friends. Little did I know that this would be just the start.
It is funny how things happen, one of my other friends who knew Alan got in touch recently saying he had just been in contact with him. The next thing I knew Alan had left an email.
The world of two-wheel transport is further ahead in the alternative fuel category. The reason is its a lighter vehicle to propel than its four-wheel counter part.
But what I do not understand is the obsession that electric transport has to rely on battery’s that can only be charged with a plug, there by limiting its useability and distance it can travel before recharge. I know this maybe a simple view but why do none of these transport types have the latest solar electric panels as part of their build, to help keep the battery’s topped up.
A typical drive to work means that you have to sit in standing traffic, wouldn’t it be great to think your little electic car is recharging itself while your waiting in a que! By doing this you have already extended the distance it can travel and with traffic volumes set to increase we are going to spend more and more time standing still.
