September 24, 2012
News
The American superbike, past, present and future
The story of the American Superbike is written in the parlance of the four-cylinder, four-stroke, longitudinally-mounted engine and begins in 1909 with Percy Pierce. Son and heir to the Pierce automotive concern, young Percy was smitten with motorcycles and, upon discovering the amazing Belgian FN four-cylinder, dedicated the might and engineering excellence of the Pierce Automobile Company to the...
24 September 2012
JT Nesbitt returns to motorcycle design with Bienville Legacy project
First there was the Wraith, then the CNG-powered Magnolia Special roadster. Now there’s this Bienville Legacy project, the culmination of everything JT Nesbitt knows about motorcycle design and a complete re-think of suspension, man/machine interaction and the American superbike. It uses a single, centrally-mounted carbon fiber leaf spring for both the front and rear suspension. ...
24 September 2012