Three fellows, working at the GM design studio in southern California had a plan. Their goal was minimal weight, distributed 50/50 front and rear including driver, compact dimensions and great handling, with aesthetic appeal and overall efficient design. The result is the SUB 3 Wheeler, powered by a Suzuki TL1000R V twin engine situated next to the driver. They wanted a canyon … [Read more...]
Aermacchi Motorcycles
Aermacchi isn't a name you see very often these days unless you spend your time at vintage race events but Aermacchi motorcycles are some of the sweetest looking little machines around. Aermacchi made and still makes aircraft over in Italy. Back around 1950, they got into the motorcycle business and started building small displacement motorcycles, somewhere in the 50cc to 350cc … [Read more...]
Smartuki video
If you doubt that motorcycle powered cars have potential, you need to see this. Also listen, it sure doesn't sound like your average Smart car! The videos are no longer available. see also Smartuki … [Read more...]
Vespa exploded view
Cutaway drawings and exploded views are a neat way to see how mechanical things go together but what if you did it with the real thing? There was an art exhibit in Turin where the artist took three Vespa scooters, left one intact, removed the outer panels on the next and completely disassembled the third. It was suspended with all of the parts in proper relationship, just like … [Read more...]
Small gasoline engine builders
Small engines, no, make that REALLY small engines, are so cool I just want to get a lathe and start turning metal. Of course, I haven't done any machining so I would trash the casting in short order but there are a surprising number of web sites showing what time and lots of skill can do. Gasoline engines about 5 or 6 inches long, some even smaller, designed and built from … [Read more...]
Rapid prototypes and computer graphics
"Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve." said Napolean Hill, author of many success books in the 20th century like his best known, "Think and Grow Rich." I've always liked that quote, and, though he wasn't referring to computer technology, which didn't exist at that time, were he alive today to see it, he might be writing about it now. When I … [Read more...]
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