Morning Linkage (Nov 18)

Transportation 1984 — the movie. Did you real­ize those thought police bikes were Vincents? Additional links to the back sto­ry on Cafe Racer Soc. http://ottonero.blogspot.com/2009/11/bbiwy.html Another e‑bike. This one with ped­als. I“m not sure where this more push-bike than moped fits into the hier­ar­chy of vehi­cles but it is sweet look­ing. Keeping you up to date … 

Morning Linkage (Nov 16)

Transportation Nov 1909. World record bro­ken. 200+ km/hr. Really. The Lightning Benz. It’s pret­ty too. I first found ‘lapin barcelona’ on Urban Sketchers and then again a cou­ple of days ago on Wrench Monkees. Sweet Flickr set of two wheel­ers. ————————- Technology There’s no way to make a sim­ple moral judg­men­tal about the use of cell … 

Morning Linkage (Nov 12)

Transportation A love­ly trio of two and three wheel toys. There’s some­thing about the dreamy 50’s pas­tel style that I like so much. Not quite toys but wicked fun look­ing lit­tle bikes. Why don’t we get these sorts of things in the USA? And who writes KTM’s press releas­es? Not good. A world speed record hold­ing boat has been … 

Morning Linkage (Nov 11)

Transportation Japanese cus­tom mak­er M&M fea­tured this sly cus­tom Kawi W650 in July. (Site in Japanese) We’ve all seen the futur­is­tic trans­porta­tion in a sci-fi movie that has pods join­ing up on the free­way to make “trains.” The assump­tion is that this sort of con­stant­ly recon­fig­ur­ing con­voy would require mas­sive infra­struc­ture invest­ment and com­plex con­trol­ling soft­ware. Maybe not. …