Transportation A little something for my TopGear fan friends. Where’s Waldo got nothing on this. Fiat Abarth, sigh. One of my first experiences with sleeper was a little Fiat 850 that ran like a scalded cat. Here’s what they are doing now. Wanna rally? More extreme transport. In this case moving the 200,000 pound antennas for the ALMA array in Chile. …
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Morning Linkage (Sept 28)
Transportation I go away for a couple of days and the world pops out all these amazing bikes. WrenchMonkees has been featured here a bunch recently. Danish design is not generally associated with fab bikes — but here you are: Cute SR500 by Speed Junkie. (Caution this is SFW, other things on this site are NSFW — you …
Morning Linkage (Sept 23)
Transportation Going fast a long time ago… A 1912 Bugatti racer is up for auction. Going fast today — on two wheels. Information about Denis Manning’s next attempt to recapture the 2‑wheel piston powered speed record. With bonus coverage of his son’s bike that may just take the 50cc two wheel record. Playing fast (and loose) …
Morning Linkage (Sept 22)
Transportation Replicas are one way to move bikes in a recession. Spies fans can hop a plane to the UK for this one. A new trend in advertising, iPhone apps. Used somewhat effectively to advertise the new VW Scirocco.I have no idea if you get the Wagner sound track to go with the game but it’s a drivable …
Morning Linkage (Sept 21)
Transport 2010 — Ducati brings us a Hypermotard. (Which BTW is a completely silly made up word.) Is this picture for real? Or did they just grab whatever looked kinda like… On a smaller scale — here’s a running replica of the Honda 50. (limited edition of course.) Still cute as heck. For our youngest readers. (Surely we …