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 Linkage (Mar 23)

Transportation Re the TTXGP shift to trust/co-op struc­ture for the sanc­tion­ing body. Giving the teams own­er­ship of the series. Brilliant or bound to fail? HD to return to pri­vate own­er­ship with the help of pri­vate equi­ty firm KKR? More than a week lat­er HOG stock prices are still enjoy­ing the rumor based bounce. Meanwhile, in Italy Ducati and Piaggio …