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Engine research at MiniMotoSX Las Vegas

The new range of FX5 Mountain Motos is designed to use any of the Honda and Honda-clone pit bike, monkey bike, Madass, postie bike and CT-range off-road motorcycle engines, from 125cc up to 190cc. We’ve been researching these engines for years and have tested in our early generation prototypes: Honda CRF50, Honda-Takegawa 88cc, Honda-Kitaco 125cc, [...]

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Kenny Roberts at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering 2013

Chatting with William Weslow at Moto Scoot in Milwaukee about my upcoming engine-research trip to the MiniMotoSX world championship in Las Vegas, he tells me he’s heading to the Quail Show in Monterey and I should come along to meet some good people in the industry. Little did I know that when I got there [...]

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New motorcycle brakes for FX5 models

FX is testing full-size light-weight moto brakes from Formula Italy. If this size and grade of brake set can stop a 220lb+ KTM 350, what will they do for a 125lb FX?! http://www.formula-italy.com/en/product/ktm-350cc-freeride/60

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Quick FX update

We’ve been working hard, setting up all our new parts suppliers in Italy and laying these all out into the designs for the new generation FX5. We’ll be building pre-production prototypes soon and all going well there will be a limited edition run of custom built bikes available by the end of the year and [...]

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2013 Mission

As usual the blog is playing 2nd fiddle to our Facebook Page (www.facebook.com/fxbikes) but here’s a quick update. Late last year I moved to Milwaukee USA indefinitely and have been working here and in Europe to move FX Bikes to the next level. The plan is to locate operations in Milwaukee with our business partner [...]

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Oh yeah, the blog!

Sorry everyone, its so much easier to quickly post on Facebook so the poor old blog has been neglected for months! Fingers crossed we have a great announcement to make soon, so I promise to write a decent entry then…and hopefully some others as motivation and time allow! All  the best from Auckland New Zealand [...]

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FX Update

In case you missed the newsletter, an inside view of FX, plans for 2012 and how you can help to launch Mountain Moto. Wow, the months (and years!) keep ticking over…I’m amazed how much hard work can go into a project like this, how we keep getting closer and closer to full scale launch without [...]

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FX Defense – Super-Lightweight Motorcycles for Military and Relief Applications

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FX-4 Defense Concept by Virtual Simulation Systems FX originally saw the Mountain Moto as a defense product, but for a number of reasons we have decided to focus on the off-road and dual sport/recreation markets at first. However, if “friendly” military and relief organizations are interested in our commercially produced models, we’re happy to talk, [...]

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FX Expedition – World’s Lightest Adventure Motorcycles

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FX Bikes has some hard core adventurers lining up for long range expeditions on Mountain Motos, such as: Crossing the Andes via donkey trails. Mt Everest Base Camp Canada to Mexico via the Rocky Mountains Mongolia…1000 miles with no roads Around the world (of course)! We’ll kit these factory-sponsored riders up with: Extended range fuel [...]

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FX Marine: Seaworthy Mountain Motos

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At FX Bikes we often get inquiries from owners and captains of watercraft (boats, yachts, super yachts, sailboats, ships…thought I’d better cover off all the names I know of to avoid offending people…I know for instance that navy people hate their ships being called boats!) From these inquiries and our own research we understand some [...]

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