Monday, March 26, 2012
Friday, March 23, 2012
The Serrano T100
Our friend Nick's MC habit very much includes
the knack for buying, selling & in between he cranks out some really nice modders.
For whatever reason he never sends us any
of the related propaganda so I poached all of this off the interweb.
It's most likely for sale or already sold, again we have no way of knowing.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Ossa Monocasco
Over the past few days Art-Tic Ossa electric concept bike has been all over the interweb & although it is pretty cool in a giant electric shaver kind of way what really caught my attention was Art-Tic's source of inspiration.
Santiago Herrero's Ossa 250 Monocoque Race Bike
Apparently the 1969 Ossa single cylinder 250 was a whopping 20hp off Yamaha's powerful V4, however Ossa was not only 45 pounds lighter but stiffer and much more agile.
Over the next couple seasons Herrero showed flashes of brilliance & even won on the Monocasco but during the 1970 Isle of Man TT "tank slapping" headshake would cause Santiago to take out fellow racer Stanley Wood both would go down.
Wood suffered a broken ankle & both collar bones were broken as well, 28 year old Santiago Herrero died from his injuries a couple days later.
The loss of Herrero caused Ossa to cease it's racing efforts.
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