New Ideas
NEW IDEAS
Custom Chrome V
What do you get when you cross a 110-cubic-inch RevTech Big Twin with a sportbike-spec inverted fork, lightweight 17-inch wheels and six-piston front brake calipers, along with other hot-rod bits? The street-fighter V, Custom Chrome's newest build-a-bike kit, that's what. Roll your own for $19,995.
Custom Chrome, Inc., 16100 Jacqueline Ct., Morgan Hill, CA 95037; 800/729-3332; www.customchrome.com
Alpinestars Off-Road Boots
Italian boot-maker Alpinestars has upped the ante on the off-road side of things with brand-new versions of its popular Tech 8 ($330) and Tech 6 ($260). The former now features a more refined fit, revised instep and Achilles flex zones, and a dual-compound sole. The latter has the same up-dates, plus a complete internal/external going-over with new lower-profile buckles. Get’em both in a variety of colors in men’s sizes 5-16.
Alpinestars USA, Inc., 2780 W. 237th St., Torrance, CA 90505; 310/891-0222; www.alpinestars.com
Metro Air Force Blaster
Cleaning your bike blows, but now drying it is a blast-thanks to the Metro Air Force Blaster. This 4-horsepower blow dryer pushes a heated, high-power current of filtered air through a 10-foot, heavy-duty crush-proof hose. Five included attachments allow air to reach all the nooks and crannies a towel can’t, helping to eliminate water spots and cut drying time. The $230 unit comes with a one-year motor warranty.
Metropolitan Vacuum Cleaner Company, Inc., One Ramapo Ave., Suffern, NY; 800/822-1602; www.motorcycledryer.com
Ironman Sprockets
Dirt Tricks' heat-treated, laser-cut chromoly steel drive sprockets are swiss-cheese airy, come with a one-year guarantee and weigh just 4 ounces more than the same-size aluminum alternative. Available in a variety of sizes for most late-model dirtbikes, they retail for $89. Shock-resistant, die-steel countershaft sprockets cost $29.
Dirt Tricks, 223 Park P1. #C, Minden, NV 89523; 775/783-1750; www.dirttricks.com
San Jose BMW R1150S
With all the 1150s and 1200s in BMW's Boxer-Twin line-up, why does the raciest of them all, the R1100S, get by with a 1085cc engine? The folks at San Jose BMW didn't think that was right either, so now offer a complete, ready-to-roll R1150S. For $17,990, customers get a 2004 R1100S Boxer Cup Prep upgraded with original-equipment 1130cc pistons and cylinders, a Remus Grand Prix stainless-steel exhaust, CC Products Superflow intake kit and a remapped Power Commander tuning module that together boost output by 15 horsepower. A billet-aluminum Paralever torque arm, fender-eliminator kit and "R1150S" graphics complete the package, which comes with a three-year/36-month warranty just like any other new BMW motorcycle.
San Jose BMW, 1886 W. San Carlos St., San Jose, CA 95218; 408/295-0205; www.sjbmw.com
Omar's Quarter-Fairing
Got an older Japanese or European streetbike? Omar’s universal quarter-fairing mimics the classic mid-Seventies Piranha design. Available with a round 7⅛-inch headlight cutout, the fiberglass fairing is sold in black gel-coat, ready for sanding, priming and painting. Hardware is included. Suggested retail is $265. Turnsignals are a $20 option.
Omar's Dirt Track Racing, Inc., 14475 23rd Ave. N., Plymouth, MN 55447; 763/745-2255; www.omarsdtr.com
Sato Racing Titanium Exhaust
What's so bitchin' about titanium? Functionally, it's light and strong, and doesn't rust like steel. But there's an aesthetic attraction, too, a magnetism that stretches beyond weights and measures. Nowhere is this more apparent than with Sato Racing's $1200 Ti exhaust. Consider this dazzling 4-into-2-into-1 system for the Kawasaki ZX-6RR: Combined with a Dynojet Power Commander, it's said to yield astonishing increases of 12 horsepower and 4.5 foot-pounds of torque. What's more, it only weighs 8 pounds (catalyzer-equipped carbon-fiber/kevlar muffler included), which is half the mass of some stock sportbike pipes. Finishing touch? A Ti pipe hanger ($109), of course.
Sato Racing, 809 S. Lakeview Ave. #N, Placentia, CA 92870; 714/779-8325; www.satoracing.com
