Author Archives: lara

Transportation 6 used Unicat’s. Because own­ing an RV does­n’t have to mean stick­ing to the inter­states. I’ll take what’s behind door num­ber 3. http://www.unicatamericas.com/secondhand.html Latest from Wrenchmonkees. A Kawi rat bike. My kind of awe­some. I’m get­ting tired of eThis and eThat, so eGrandPrix is unlike­ly to make my hit parade. On the oth­er hand racing … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 26)”

Transportation That plane car you ordered? It’s here. A box­er will nev­er look quite right as a cafe rac­er to me. OTOH it’s a Bonneville record hold­er. BMW R75/5. The TTXGP race from last year is gong to be the sub­ject of a doc­u­men­tary film. Here’s the trail­er. —————– Technology (Cameras) A sol­id resource for learning … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 25)”

Transportation What is it about bikes with squared off bits and pieces? Looking like some­thing made out of expen­sive can­dy box­es, the Mars. Top Speed is either in on the joke or plen­ty dumb. This steam motor­cy­cle with a Piaggo look­ing front end is rad. (Note the Worth100 water­mark.) Bio-diesel motor­cy­cle with inter­est­ing stream­lin­er styling. … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 22)”

Transportation Interesting take on how the TARP funds for trans­porta­tion should be spent. The groups spon­sor­ing the report have an ax to grind but the log­ic is good. More mon­ey for bus­es, less mon­ey for asphalt may equal more, bet­ter, longer last­ing jobs. Hmmm. It’s Blue, it’s French, that’s enough for me. There’s that mag­ic word ‘scram­bler’ …

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 21)”

Transportation If you rec­og­nize that these cutouts are more than sad­ly mod­ern abstracts then you can have them on your wall. If you had to look at the descrip­tion to fig­ure out what they are, you would be pos­ing and that’s not cool. In my house you hear a lot about the mys­ti­cal per­fect Triumph — … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 20)”