The Kneeslider

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$3,000,000 car

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For those of you on your computers now and not watching the live Barrett Jackson auction on Speed TV, you missed seeing a 1954 Oldsmobile F88 concept car go for $3,000,000. That's $1,000,000 higher than their record sale in a prior auction. Prices this year are nuts. … [Read more...]

Secure keys cracked

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Just yesterday I posted the link to the lock picking championship and said that since mechanical locks were so vulnerable, electronic keys would be much more necessary. Today, we find out the code to those keys has been cracked. Graduate students at Johns Hopkins University have come up with a system, using off the shelf computer equipment and some home brewed software, that … [Read more...]

Lock picking champs

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Ever watch the movies where some guy sneaks up to a door at night and pulls out a small leather case filled with picks and opens a door in seconds? Well, this isn't the movies, this is the Dutch Open Lock Picking Championship. These guys are the real deal. Your average suburban home with a Weiser lock, 15 seconds. How about those black Kryptonite U shaped locks for bicycles and … [Read more...]

Hooligan – the film for old British bikers

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By now, most of you have heard about the film Faster covering the MotoGP world. Well, now we have a film scheduled for release this summer of 2005 by the name of Hooligan. It's all about riders of old British iron, cafe racers, the neat old machinery without the plastic or truckloads of chrome. These are the bikes built and rebuilt and ridden with pride. They have a Quicktime … [Read more...]

Proton makes a move on Ducati

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Proton, sponsors of the Kenny Roberts MotoGP team and controlling interest in MV Agusta, recently made a bid to buy into Ducati. They have abandoned those plans and intend instead to concentrate on growing their other motorcycle brands. They are the biggest carmaker in SE Asia and are planning to use the Agusta brand on various car models. This should be interesting. Thanks to … [Read more...]

The universal engine

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Over the last week or so I've been thinking and writing about motorcycle engines and I came across this series of columns by Marc Cook over at AVweb. Being an aviation web site his columns look at engines from that perspective and he examines the actual differences between motorcycle and airplane engines and the reasons why they're different. It's good information. As I … [Read more...]