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Transportation In hon­or of the Iceholes hav­ing * all * made it across the bor­der. Piaggio Ape rac­ing. The mad­ness nev­er stops. The 1955 Ariel offer­ing. “The only four cylin­der motor­cy­cle you can buy in America.” Moto jour­nal­ist hyper­bole is not new.  Click to en-biggen. Industry news, changes in own­er­ship and man­age­ment at KTM and … 

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Transportation The lit­tle Honda RC125 is an instant walk down nos­tal­gia lane for many folks. Here’s a pho­to of a fine repli­ca and links to a bunch more fan sites. Moto-porn and camera-porn in one go. Making of… videos for two recent Ducati ads (super­bike and hyper­mo­trad.) And can I just men­tion that not all bike … 

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Transportation WSDOT presents: build­ing the new fer­ry the Chetzemoka. Lovely lit­tle video mon­tage of con­struc­tion pho­tos, includ­ing a month­ly time lapse. (Sound — bad looped music) Okay, these guys look like our kind of bugnutz. The Dumb Way Down. Around the world on a cou­ple of bit­sa bikes from the 30’s. It’s look­ing to be … 

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Transportation The Porsche Family Tree ad from a cou­ple of months ago was a fine show­ing of clas­sic cars. Here’s a Making of …video for your enjoy­ment. Shameless self pro­mo­tion at it’s finest. (sound — but nice sound) In antic­i­pa­tion of Bonneville Speedweek, tal­ent­ed auto­mo­tive pho­tog­ra­ph­er Jerry Garns put up three shots from 2009. BMW R69S Custom … 

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Transportation Massive con­struc­tion under Grand Central Station in NYC. A slide show of images of tun­nel­ing for the new LIR con­nec­tions. Note — indi­vid­ual cap­tions are to the right of the images. ——————- Science and tech­nol­o­gy Hunter and preda­tor robots. Neural net­works and ran­dom muta­tions allow robots to evolve behav­iors. ——————- Art, Images, Design 13 … 

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