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 … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 8)

Transportation Low rent trans­former of now neglect­ed, beloved city mas­cot. This robot built of sovi­et era car parts stands out­side of Odessa. Lovely. Thruxton based. Some back­ground on the engine design of the IoM Norton I showed you a week or so ago. The squish com­bus­tion cham­ber was the idea of a jan­i­tor? Not really. … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 4)

Transportation Purple Helmets, the Isle of Man TT half-time stunt team. Very British — in a Benny Hill, wellies and slick­ers, kin­da way. (Sound) Wrench Monkees begin build­ing a bit­sa. Where did that pur­ple frame come from? Updates as they hap­pen. Desmo dou­ble front-wheel trike. Very bizarre and head­line writ­ers take note, no way in hell is … 

Morning Linkage (Mar 3)

Transportation This is so damned close to a tri­als bike, an under­pow­ered tri­als bike. The wheel size dif­fer­ence is odd. But what the heck. There are girls pic­tured. FX-Mountain Moto. Google earth now has pic­tures of Pima and the air­plane bone­yard. Bamboo ped­al bike frames. Wicked cool mate­r­i­al sci­ence and engi­neer­ing. (Thanks M2) ——————— Science …