From the days when you could buy a "real" motorcycle at a department store or out of a mail order catalog. What a fantastic example. And yes that's a rebadged Benelli.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Update: 1968 "Montgomery Wards" 360 Mojave Benelli.
UPDATE: Apparently our favorite concept designer has been looking at these old beauties for inspiration!
From the days when you could buy a "real" motorcycle at a department store or out of a mail order catalog. What a fantastic example. And yes that's a rebadged Benelli.
From the days when you could buy a "real" motorcycle at a department store or out of a mail order catalog. What a fantastic example. And yes that's a rebadged Benelli.
High Concept: Benoit Ladouceur.
Matt Painter, and Concept artist Benoit Ladouceur shows us these quad bike designs from a project only referred to as " Premium Sound" You can see the rest of his word at his website.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
The Dock Boys.
Train Employees at the SP&S coach yard in Northwest Portland pose on a Excelsior motorcycle in 1915. Via: Historic Photo Archive
Training day.
A fully functioning Vespa engine used for trade and technical schools. Complete with stand and even a drip tray for carpeted floors.
Via: Itrademarket Priority
The best toy ever?
Pict Via: Random acts of GeekeryThe 1978 commercial for the Kenner TTP Dual Launch Drag Set featuring the Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Bigfoot.
Sorry.. Been out riding! Here's a nice Velocette Scrambler 500 to make it up to everyone.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!
Baby Dee.
"She parks her trike next to a Harley Davidson, carefully dismounts with her accordion and croons a sad, sweetly funny song about a sailor… or a girl… a small crowd gathers, beaming her beatific smile back at her. At the end of her ditty the cat/lady/man graciously curtsies, accepting coins and small bills from all of us, then gets back on her tricycle and pedals away, cackling insanely. She is an irresistible creature. The cheers and applause continue long after her waving form has disappeared around the corner."
Via: Coilhouse
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Genius at work. Edwin Yi Yuan's Greenspeed.
Edwin Conan ( Yi Yuan ) has succeeded in designing a concept air-fueled bike dubbed the Green Speed Air Powered Motorcycle. It is not an utterly novel concept for we have heard of compressed air powered vehicles before, but this motorcycle has overcome a couple of problems faced by previous concepts — short range and low speed.
Edwin combined with his lecturer and a team of design students to give it a form. He chucked the guts of a Suzuki GP100 from the 1970s into the bin and just used its frame, wheels and brakes.
The engine used to grind this machine is an invention of a Melbourne based engineer, Angelo Di Pietro. It is lightweight and runs on air compressed from two compressed air tanks on the bike. It revs up 10,000 RPM thereby eliminating the need of a gearbox, bringing only a single gear (sprocket bolted directly to the axis of the engine and chained to the rear wheel) into use."
Via: Greenpacks
To the clouds...
The De Lackner Aerocycle is not only the ultimate in one-man flying machines, but also the ultimate in aerial safety.
Since the operator stands on a tiny platform with a pair of naked helicopter blades whirling beneath him at food-processor speeds there is a great inducement not to fall off.
Via: Flying Solo
The Rogue.
A (rather natty) rider oh his Royal Enfield Model L circa, 1920/19300 Scandinavia. Via: Surrey Vintage Vehicle Society
Origin of Species.
A young boy in a Uganda refugee camp carries water on his wooden scooter.Via: The Glenns In Africa
Friday, August 28, 2009
The Future Upstairs.
Wes Siler has some urban indoor motocross fun with the electric Quantya Strada. Pict via: Grant Ray. 
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Jack, Budge & Freckles.
Andrew Carey Lincoln's 1912 series with Jack, Budge & Freckles on their motorbikes. Via: jotor's photostream
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