Awesome Motorcycles
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Pictures of unusual motorcycles.
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:33:48 AM
Yike Bike - Urban Freedom
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If you were among the millions who were disappointed by the hype of the Segway, take a look at this video. Could this 22 pound folding electric commuter bike actually be "IT"? Unlike George Jetson's car, it doesn't fly, but it does fold up and fit into a bag you can carry in one hand.
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:33:48 AM
Clash of the Bearded Ones; Hipsters, Hasids, and the Williamsburg street.
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On a windy Monday night, Pete’s Candy Store—a bar in Williamsburg with a railcar-shaped performance space in the back—is crammed to capacity with the thin and the bearded. Almost no one is drinking. The mood is pregame, expectant and nervous. We’re at one of the oddest New York City powwows in recent memory: a panel designed to quell a metastasizing dispute between bicyclists and Hasidic Jews. Except no Hasids are present. For a moment, it looks like the bicyclists will have to debate themselves. At immediate issue is the Bedford Avenue bike lane. It’s the longest in Brooklyn and runs...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:33:48 AM
A Very Peculiar Sight
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While driving near downtown Minneapolis this morning, I saw what appeared to be a perfectly healthy young woman riding a bicycle in a normal fashion. On the bike were custom made racks constructed of vertical PVC pipe. Stowed in these racks were crutches, These were the type of crutches with arm clasps, not armpit pads; the sad kind of crutches you might associate with a chronic muscle disease or orthopedic problem, not a broken leg. Can anybody think of a an explanation for a crutch rack on a bicycle?
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:33:48 AM
The mystery of Hitler's 'spyclists'
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Summer 1937. What could be more fitting in the cool afternoon of an English country lane than a group of cycling tourists steadily pedalling their way from one historic site to another, stopping to camp overnight in fields along the way.The only problem was, that summer, some of those groups of teenage boys were Hitler Youth. > MI5 had been told that Hitler Youth groups visiting abroad were asked to complete a detailed questionnaire, including questions on terrain, population, and political views of the population. > They had stayed at a Hitler Youth camp and even taken part in a...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 08:33:48 AM
"I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy."
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