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250 NON-JA CHROME CUSTOM

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When friends tease me about my wee bike I can quiet them with four words….. race ya for pinks?

This is my first Japanese bike in 46 years of riding on the street.

I wanted to weld up something just to leap round town, and to not have to fire up one of my bigger bikes just to get to …

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LEARN TO BUILD AN ELECTRIC RACE BIKE

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TTXGP, the eGrandPrix is an international race series providing a high profile platform for the development of electric vehicles.

New for 2011 is Learn.egrandprix.org or LEO. Leo offers the opportunity to learn how to build an electric motorcycle, right from the classroom to the circuit in one course. The first courses will be held at the Campus Francorchamps facility on …

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NINJA 25O STREAMLINER

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Alan Smith and his streamlined 2005 Ninja 250 win 2nd place in the Craig Vetter Fuel Economy Challenge. He had an impressive 93 mpg and total cost of fuel of $6.43 over the 133.5 mile course.

The loop began and ended at Carmel, CA. The route out was mountainous, cresting a 2500 ft pass. The route back was Highway 101 …

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THE MAXTON MILE

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In a special series for TwoFiftyMAG.com Eric Roehrle of Darkhorse Racing chronicles his 2011 bid to have the World’s Fastest Ninja 250.

There is a place in North Carolina that can only be described as magical.

It is a forgotten runway two miles long. On this cement stretch people come to test the limit of their machines and of their imaginations. There is everything …

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PROJECT: NINJA

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This project originally started out as a touch up paint project for my nephew Jeremy. I told him to give it to me for a weekend and I would get it done…he got it back 2 years later.


The bike was pretty rough, a lot more than I had noticed the first time I saw it. It was rusted pretty …

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