The Kneeslider

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TDI Diesel mpg claims may be true

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After questioning the 150mpg claims of the Thunder Star TDI sportbike the other day I did a little research on the subject. It seems the TDI technology is pretty popular in Europe and VW claims their 3 cylinder TDI diesel gets 90mpg, and that's in a car! The problem with TDI over here in the states is that the more highly refined low sulfur diesel fuel necessary for these … [Read more...]

Segway XT off road transporter

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The Segway was pretty cool when it came out, self balancing and all, and it got lots of attention. After a while, the hype died down and at least one inventive fellow, built his own from off the shelf parts. So what do they do for a new model? The Segway XT, an off road version, has been introduced. Now I don't know about you but I never pictured the Segway as the ideal off … [Read more...]

Vectrix electric scooter

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New designs keep coming and now here's the Vectrix, an electric scooter with decent performance. Top speed of 62mph, range of 68 miles, 0-50mph 6.8 seconds, recharges to 80% in 2 hours, full charge in 3 hours from a standard wall outlet. It looks like a nice design and their site has quite a few variations including what looks like a race or sport version. For shorter range and … [Read more...]

Scrap Metal Art

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A few weeks ago I write about a guy making motorcycle art from old computer parts, very cool stuff. Now, things like that just keep popping up. Here's a site, Metaldude, selling art made from scrap car parts, motorcycle parts and just plain old scrap metal. There are several motorcycle pieces but there's a lot of other work, too. The sci-fi section is very weird with 7 foot … [Read more...]

Build or Bust

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Isn't it about time to call an end to the reality shows? I stumbled onto this show, "Build or Bust," the other night and decided to watch a bit since there's been a lot of hype for it. Once again my question is, who watches this stuff? A bunch of staged action that's supposed to be "real" where some (un)lucky guy gets to try his hand at building a chopper while being verbally … [Read more...]