Transportation Truly bizarre build from a CBR1000F. Top notch fabrication quality, stunningly ugly design, and it’s orange. Every kids dream — working on the railway. Children’s railways in eastern Europe. Follow the links for more “I can’t believe I’m too old” envy. Pretty bike — elegant, understated, and vaguely sinister. CB550. Science and Tech Well, science fiction …
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Morning Linkage (May 3)
Transportation Apparently things are little different in GT racing in Japan. Anime franchises sponsor cars painted like space ships, drivers wear suits patterned after officers uniforms and the ‘race queens’ look like cos-players. Evangelion gets the treatment. It’s not all Evangelion and Gundams. Run’a did Toy Story. (It’s worth running this through Google translate of …
Morning Linkage (Apr 29)
Transporation A collection of SR400 and SR500 videos. These highly modifiable singles are the starting point for tons of customs in Japan. Now in addition a to the work on the bike — it seems that you have to make a riding video. Kick start bike, cruise the neighborhood, hit the underpass, have your buddy …
Morning Linage (Apr 28)
Transportation Simple and sweet. The RD350 as cafe racer. Rat scooters. There are a couple of homely little items in this collection that I would happily take home and shine up. And a WTF or two. I remain unconvinced, but there are folks who think this clip from a dyno test of the MotoCzysz D1-10 proves that …
Morning Linkage (Apr 27)
Transportation Is this really what it says it is? A Vincent drag racer? New or old? Dang I love this site for the pics but they have less info than BikeEXIF. Though the location is ID’d in the comments. We’ve all seen the city buses and the occasional hummer covered in vinyl graphics advertising something …