Yearly Archives: 2009

Short List Day Transportation FIAT Yamaha debut total­ly bor­ing new liv­ery this week­end. Hardy a track can­di­date but very flow­ery. ———— Society Matt Burns mom has her own def­i­n­i­tion for lol. I think I“ll share her mis­in­ter­pre­ta­tion. (Hint: read the mes­sages start­ing at the bot­tom right. ———– Art and Images Women have been mak­ing impor­tant (FSVO) art … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Oct 2)”

Transportation The new Augusta. Sexiest bike in the world? Maybe. Very nice engine details pix. Old school sexy. A Guzzi, in rattle-can mat­te black. More old school. Husky used to make bikes not just chain­saws and sewing machines. An entire day wast­ing day’s worth of two (and three) wheeled old school and amuse­ment. Expect to links … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Oct 1)”

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. … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Sept 29)”

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 … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Sept 28)”

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) … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Sept 23)”