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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

motorized bicycles from about 80-100 years old

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all just a small part of the variety on a 3 page thread at http://motorbicycling.com/showthread.php?t=43650

you can see a better gallery of cool old motorcycles at http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/180/Motorcycle-Photo-Gallery/2003-Art-of-the-Motorcycle-Show.aspx

or just use Google and search "Art of the Motorcycle"

"Premium Rush" is a great bike chase movie, and Danny MacAskill shows his skills in it too!

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the above is the better trailer if you want the story about the movie, in short, Bike Messenger vs corrupt NY cop, cop chases the best messenger in NYC to try to get the package. Bike messenger pulls off incredible evasive moves, gets chased a couple times, delivers. On time.

Great biking, good movie, terrific reviews all over, Ebert to Rotten Tomatos.

the below is the better trailer for a bit of action

http://www.premiumrush.com/site/#downtown

For the best write up about the movie (ignore all the filler about "The French Connection" and skip down to where the writer nails the biggest idiot to break into the set during filming, some a hole with a diplomats license plate who knows he can get away with anything less than murder, crashed into the film location with his car, and caused the well known and liked actor Joseph Gordon Levitt (JCL) to crash into the back of a taxi, through the back window, and get 31 stitches) check the verbose New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/movies/joseph-gordon-levitt-dodges-traffic-in-premium-rush.html?_r=0

If you are wondering why I mention Danny MacAskill, it's because he is a phenom in trick riding, I've posted videos of his stunts a year ago: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/12/danny-macaskill-rides-through-over-and.html

Steve McQueen, a bike, and saddlebags? WTH?

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from the wonderful website http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/

good ol Jack Benny, there'll never be another one like him

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Jack Benny, one of my favorites
found on http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/

A dress catcher on a bike in the movie " Hysteria " which is a cool movie by the way, with the wonderful Maggie Gyllenhaall

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1435513/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 for more information about it

Similar to this dress catcher is the skirt guard http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2012/06/things-that-are-obsolete-and-ive-never.html

I wonder if "Rides A Bike" http://ridesabike.tumblr.com/ has this image yet? Great website of celebrities on bikes

innovation in bicycle front tire hubs

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Leading Link in Hub Suspension via: http://t-s-k-b.tumblr.com/post/35405062238/strange-measure-leading-link-in-hub-suspension

newest motor wheel, and they figured out how to pedal it

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found on http://justacargal.blogspot.com/

Bikes at the Art Center College of Design

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Ivan's bike, coolest story I've read in weeks

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Click on the above image for the full size so it's easier to read

Innovator is going to try to revolutionize biking in poor countries, with a recycled cardboard bike

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Once ready for production, the bicycle will include no metal parts, even the brake mechanism and the wheel and pedal bearings will be made of recycled substances, although Gafni said he could not yet reveal those details due to pending patent issues.

cardboard and other recycled materials could bring a major change in current production norms because grants and rebates would only be given for local production and there would be no financial benefits by making bicycles in cheap labor markets.

"This is a real game-changer. It changes ... the way products are manufactured and shipped, it causes factories to be built everywhere instead of moving production to cheaper labor markets, everything that we have known in the production world can change," he said.

Elmish said the cardboard bikes would be made on largely automated production lines and would be supplemented by a workforce comprising pensioners and the disabled.
Elmish said the business model they had created meant that rebates for using "green" materials would entirely cancel out production costs and this could allow for bicycles to be given away for free in poor countries.

Producers would reap financial rewards from advertisements such as from multinational companies who would pay for their logo to be part of the frame, he explained.

"Because you get a lot of government grants, it brings down the production costs to zero, so the bicycles can be given away for free. We are copying a business model from the high-tech world where software is distributed free because it includes embedded advertising," Elmish explained.
http://news.yahoo.com/cardboard-bicycle-change-world-says-israeli-inventor-090732689.html

Speedfest 2012 is here! In San Diego at the Naval Air Station on Coronado Island in the bay, both Saturday and Sunday... here's a quick look at what I saw today

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fuel cooler canister in the back seat

Jeff bought this 1969 Kenworth at age 19, and worked with it for the next 20 years, getting 3 million miles under and behind him... he then converted it with the only stipulations from his wife that it have a toilet and a shower. They're both happy!