Morning Linkage (Mar 23)

Transportation Re the TTXGP shift to trust/co-op struc­ture for the sanc­tion­ing body. Giving the teams own­er­ship of the series. Brilliant or bound to fail? HD to return to pri­vate own­er­ship with the help of pri­vate equi­ty firm KKR? More than a week lat­er HOG stock prices are still enjoy­ing the rumor based bounce. Meanwhile, in Italy Ducati and Piaggio … 

Morning Linakge (Mar 12)

Transportation A par­tic­u­lar­ly nice ver­sion of the battery/electric ped­al bike. Charges on the flat as well as down hill. Also nice look­ing, I would­n’t be embar­rassed to ride this to town. I had the International Scout II for a while. I’d pay (some­thing) to have one of these now. The International Wagonmaster. Alas I was too late. … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 11)

Transportation You’ve seen the pic­tures of the hacked togeth­er ones but here’s the real deal. Motorcycle side-car based cam­era mount. The fab­ri­ca­tion qual­i­ty blows me away. Based on a 6 cylin­der 1500cc what? Seats 4. Sexy enough to make me con­sid­er a elec­tric car. Almost. Or I could buy one and put a real engine in … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 10)

Transportation Plywood pad­dler for the junior set. Funny how much the logo looks like Harley Davidson from a dis­tance. Cute though. 1923 BMW fac­to­ry floor. Lots more vin­tage in the Vintage Motorbikes Flickr pool but beware of bad cap­tions, and wild ass guess­es as to makes and mod­els. Scroll down once for hot girl in … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 9)

Transportation I love the tail treat­ment on this Triumph. Such a sweet, round butt. The post title says it all “Enjoy Some Gratuitous Classic Lotus Porn.” Pics from the Lotus archives. (SFW) A bad jump start once cost me a ECU/BCU pair for a Mercedes. If the surge sup­pres­sor in these smart jumper cables works …