Morning Linkage (May 12)

Transportation A new direc­tion in elec­tric motor­cy­cles, look­ing back to the 50’s. Hammarhead builds the Volta, a retro look­ing bat­tery pow­ered machines on a mod­ern frame. If you can call the Enfield Bullet mod­ern… In case you saw today’s BikeEXIF, the Falcon Kestral, and want­ed the back ground. Here’s the press release and bunch of … 

Morning Linkage (May 11)

Transportation I am devel­op­ing a the­o­ry that green bikes are always chal­leng­ing. Take for exam­ple this ‘83 R80ST bob­ber. It is fas­ci­nat­ing; in a train wreck of a gas tank sort of way. Points for brav­ery though. This Tiger 100 fea­tured at Quail is the def­i­n­i­tion of col­lectible. A one-off pro­duced in 1940 for Rody … 

Morning Linkage (May 10)

Transportation 52 side­car images. Worth a look if only to hit page down once and get the best gig­gle you’ll have all day. If you have tod­dlers in the house call them over to the screen first. The math of rac­ing. In the end, it’s all about how fast can you go around the track … 

Morning Linkage (May 7)

Transportation The Friday freaky find. This was spot­ted on eBay and now it lives on pipeburn and per­haps in some­one’s garage. Is it a Norton? A Triumph? An ungod­ly mashup? Twin engine goofy­ness. You know that I love the work of Wrench Monkees. So do a lot of oth­er folks and now we’re start­ing to … 

Morning Linkage (May 5)

Transportation If you sim­ply *must*have a Ducati… No, no, please don’t hit me. I only find them and bring them to you. I don’t actu­al­ly cre­ate them. Eastern Europe is turn­ing out a lot of tal­ent­ed visu­al artists and a cou­ple of odd-ball bike cus­tomiz­ers. Everyone has seen Yuri Shif’s tri-color Monster the DUster, but this …