Bikes in the Fast Lane: Patent: Electric Front Wheel Drive For Conventional Motorcycles plus 2 more

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• Patent: Electric Front Wheel Drive For Conventional Motorcycles
• If Your Scooter Gets Cold At Night, Here Is A Solution
• Video: Restoring A Royal Enfield Motorcycle In 2 Minutes

Patent: Electric Front Wheel Drive For Conventional Motorcycles Posted: 17 May 2012 09:00 AM PDT Interesting patent that got filed October last year. The idea is nifty, but the application a bit iffy. The patent is for an electric front wheel drive for a conventional, gas guzzling, motorcycle. We've seen several 2 wheel drive motorcycles, but all use hydraulics to power the front wheel. Making the front wheel electrically powered can be interesting, since it should save in cost and weight. The electric front wheel drive would be coupled to a controller that works in sync with the rear drive and engine. The controller would regulate the speeds of both wheels, making sure one does not run faster, or slower, than the other. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

If Your Scooter Gets Cold At Night, Here Is A Solution Posted: 17 May 2012 05:00 AM PDT If your scooter sleeps outside during the night, especially in the winter, here's something you can make to keep it warm... .. or you can just use it as it was intended to be used, decoration. The scooter is a crochet, but you can not buy it. No, you're going to have to work for it. You buy the pattern, and then you spend the next weeks crocheting the thing together. Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

Video: Restoring A Royal Enfield Motorcycle In 2 Minutes Posted: 16 May 2012 11:00 PM PDT For those of you who are like me, and can not sit through a whole hour in front of the TV seeing a motorcycle being built, or restored, here's the fast way. A guy in India, with the help of some friends, restored a 1978 Royal Enfield Bullet motorcycle from the ground up. He filmed the whole process, from start to finish, and using time-lapse, you can see his endeavor in only 2 minutes. Pretty impressive. In real life, it took 45 days. ...

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