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Red Bull Dragsterday

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Hot on the heels of my post on gravity racing, now we have Red Bull Dragster Day which is a human powered drag race. I guess that answers my question of how they get back up the hill. I think things are becoming a little too green and eco-friendly for my taste. I prefer high technology combined with lots of brute force. … [Read more...]

Extreme Gravity Racing

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As gas prices continue to climb, here's the perfect answer, ... gravity. Extreme Gravity Racing was started as a way for corporate teams to compete against one another and as the number of participating companies grew, the designs began to advance by leaps and bounds, especially when the companies involved are named Bentley, Mazda, Nissan, GM, Chrysler and a bunch more. Some of … [Read more...]

Motorcycle studies

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The other day I mentioned the new study being funded in the highway bill to gather and analyze information on motorcycle accidents. Good thing, right? Well, that part of the bill is going to fund a study by the Oklahoma Transportation Center and was sponsored by an Oklahoma congressman. Why do safety studies have to be government funded at all? The highway bill providing this … [Read more...]

Motorcycle computer case

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There's a pretty active group of computer users doing case mods. They remove the guts of their computers and install them in things like 1940's era radios or maybe aquariums or they just create a totally new case where their imagination is the limit. This one might interest The Kneeslider's readers, it's a motorcycle computer case and to turn on the computer you have to turn an … [Read more...]

Yamaha paper motorcycle models

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Want your own 50th anniversary edition of the Yamaha MotoGP bike? Yamaha will give you one, sort of, at the Yamaha papercraft site. You can download a paper foldup model and build it yourself. Want a V-Max or an R1? You can have one. These look very cool. You might figure those folks from the land of origami might come up with something like this. You need the free Adobe … [Read more...]

Motoart

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Several times I've pointed out scrap metal art and the like and as I was looking over the EAA website after updating info on the HondaJet, I saw this item on Motoart. This company takes parts and pieces of old airplanes and turns them into furniture, sculpture and all sorts of neat things. How about the Aqua Bomb, a ten gallon aquarium made from a MK-84 bomb tailfin. Perhaps a … [Read more...]