moped Articles
Custom: Super Motor Company Salt Shaker
Sometimes you start on a bike that along the way gets bigger and bigger ending up as a totally overambitious project. We did start such a project over a year ago, a small capacity racing bike, that we just could not finish due to lack of funds. Carbon fibre this, Chromoly that, 3000 euro here, 2000 euro there, we wanted the lot. Stoner once said to Rossi: “Your ambition outweighs your talent...
Oct 12, 2012
Mopeds tackle the alps
Every September for the last three years, hundreds of mopeds have gathered in Switzerland to tackle the mountain passes there. This year's Red Bull Alpenbrevet saw 770 entrants compete in the rally. brightcove.createExperiences(); The 82-mile route includes three 7,000-foot passes. A huge challenge for vintage machines powered by a hybrid of human and two-stroke power. ...
Sep 17, 2012
Dailies
Flock Yeah 3: Cheeseburgers in Paradise
Fancy a spot of moped mayhem this weekend? The Latebirds are bringing their annual rally to Los Angeles in a three day orgy of pre-mix, pedals and inappropriate-for-August flannel. Events kick off tomorrow with a ride around LA and drinks/pizza at our favorite dive bar/pizza joint, Tony's and Pizzanista, but things reach a climax on Saturday with a ride through Malibu and a warehouse party in Echo...
Sep 06, 2012
Janus Halcyon: a 1920s style 50cc two-stroke
The first product of a new bike manufacturer from Indiana, this Janus Halcyon was designed to look like a record-breaker from the 1920s or 30s, but powered by a 50cc two-stroke, is light and legally accessible to first time riders. In his own words, the bike’s creator, Richard Worsham, tells us all about it: “Janus Motorcycles is an American manufacturer of hand-made, small-displacement bik...
Aug 02, 2012
Dailies
Thunderdrome brings racing back to Detroit
Everyone’s favorite scooter/moped/pit bike/mini moto/bicycle race is returning to Detroit’s re-discovered Dorais Velodrome with two dates this year. Thunderdrome will race on 30 June and 15 September, 2012. Make sure you visit the Thunderdrome site for full details, there’s changes to the registration process and homologation rules this year which mean you have to sign up ahead of time. You ...
May 11, 2012
Custom: Indigan Diablo
Built to showcase a new, American-made moped parts company, the bike you see here is based on an old Bultaco 125 frame. It’s quite possibly the hottest moped we’ve ever seen. “Indigan is a return to manufacturing in the USA,” explains our old buddy Dan Kastner, who’s involved with the project. “Fun parts made that fit.” ...
Mar 16, 2012
Thunderdrome at the Gilmore Car Museum's vintage motorcycle show
The Thunderdrome took the show on the road for the first time, in what was also the first race ever held on the Gilmore's Car Museum's track. Usually used for parade laps by only the finest show cars, this weekend it was host to something much more exciting. The bikes racing included scooters, pit bikes and mopeds. Some of the mopeds managed to stay running long enough to finish, too! There was al...
Jun 14, 2011
Dailies
Thunderdrome, Kalamazoo, this weekend
Everyone’s favorite debaucherous two-wheeled demolition derby is departing Detroit this weekend for a road trip across the state to the Gilmore Car Museum outside of Kalamazoo. There, a 1/4-mile oval flat track will play host to minibike, moped, scooter and pit bike racing. It costs just $20 and your sanity to enter, an open track day (for the above classes) on Saturday sweetens the deal. If yo...
Jun 07, 2011
Detroit Thunderdrome City
Once again, Detroit has proved itself America’s leading city of hoonage. Saturday, The Thunderdrome’s second ever race went off successfully, defying the infield lake, roving packs of post-apocalyptic UAW zombies and this country’s encroaching mediocrity in the process. What follows are pictures and video of no-barriers-to-entry motorcycle racing at its finest. Photos: Thom Briggs ...
May 02, 2011
Time to enter The Thunderdrome
The Thunderdrome is returning to Detroit’s abandoned Dorais Velodrome this Saturday, April 30th. Have a junky old moped, scooter, bicycle or pit bike or minibike you want to race with your friends? It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’re riding, this is the time and place to do that. Last year’s race was simply the most awesome motorsports event we’ve ever participated in. Do it: ...
Apr 26, 2011
Dailies
It’s Moroccan moped superman
Faster than a speeding bullet, yet slower than traffic, this real life superhero was spotted fighting crime at nearly 90mph on a Moroccan highway. Criminals beware, you can hear this man of steel’s moped inside your car, at speed, hundreds of yards away. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Wi1r11AUaQ Thanks for the tip, Sean....
Apr 05, 2011
A Swiss Army knife with wheels
You probably can’t fit the 40lbs (without battery) Voltitude on your keychain, but something tells me Wes might try anyways. The Swiss inventors behind it want to create a vehicle with the same near-universal utility of their country’s famous knife, providing commuters with a practical moped they can fold and then roll into their apartment or office. You don’t even need to carry it, once fol...
Mar 18, 2011
Dailies
The Thunderdrome! returns with three 2011 dates
Detroit’s guerilla race, The Thunderdrome!, is returning for 2011 with three dates. Last October’s inaugural event on the city’s derelict Dorais Velodrome saw hundreds of people who wouldn’t otherwise have any involvement with motorsports actually racing mopeds, minibikes, bicycles and other contraptions. Think of it as no-barrier-to-entry racing that actually ends up being more exciting t...
Mar 09, 2011