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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)”

Transportation It’s that time of the year. Icy roads can cut down on your two-wheel com­mute trips. Or not. Brutally evil look­ing elec­tric bike. Another entry for the TTXGP. Another cool fast boat. And this one won’t get all smashed up by eco-terrorists. On the oth­er hand — it is in the Navy now. Littoral com­bat ship … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 19)”

Transportation Some Lomographic pho­tos…of a very nice RD400. Yes, it’s orange. Don’t you want to meet the guys (and girls) behind this col­lec­tion of run­ning projects snapped out­side a din­er in Brooklyn last March? Roland Sands, meh. Nice cam­era work, awe­some sound track, sil­ly bike stunts, yay! (Sound) ——————– Science Having views of Earth from space is one … 

Continue read­ing “Morning Linkage (Jan 13)”