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// May 22nd, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Are you telling you made a time machine out of a DeLorean Bike? No, just a stainless steel branded DeLoran bike I’d love to get one, if it weren’t $5,500. If I was going to shell out $5,500 for a bike, I’d get one a Specialized Tarmac SL4 Pro Ui2 Mid-Compact or maybe a Cervelo R3.
The DeLorean, Back To The Future’s Time Machine, Is Now A Bike
// May 4th, 2012 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Even with no longer having a Subie, the Impreza/WRX always will have a special place in my heart. Saw this article yesterday and thought it was intriguing.
If the WRX was to move to an electric turbocharger of sorts, does that make it more of a supercharger than a turbocharger?
// April 18th, 2012 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Space Stuff & NASA
The now retired space shuttle orbiters are heading to their exhibits. Yesterday, Washington DC received its orbiter — the Discovery. CNN did a nice piece with viewers adding media to the story.
Amanda also said one of our friends living up in D.C. got an aerial view of the oribter hitching its ride to our nation’s capital on top of the NASA modified 747. I’ll post that to Keefer Madness once I get to see it.
// February 27th, 2012 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles
We may not be getting flying cars anytime soon, but check out this infographic on automated vehicles that have all their wheels on the ground.
// February 8th, 2012 // No Comments » // Cycling, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
The House is moving a full transportation bill right now that would eliminate dedicated funding for public transportation and the tiny amount of funding that helps make dangerous streets and roads safer for children and others on foot or bike. It does not go far enough to fix our bridges and roads or provide people more options for getting around.
It’s time to kill the House’s transportation bill. Can you join me and send a message to your representative?
http://action.smartgrowthamerica.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=9507
// December 15th, 2011 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Space Stuff & NASA
Here’s another private company’s concept for future manned and un-manned payloads, using an aircraft 2X larger than a 747 to get the rocket up to 30,000 feet. Then the rocket is dropped, wings deploy, and it’s launched into space. This concept would be in competition and in same class as the Delta 2 rockets.
Initially I was wondering why do this, meaning you have to fight the gravity after drop. But the real advantage of this system is being able to deploy the rocket from anywhere in the world to get to any orbit faster. Interesting concept by former NASA administrator, Mike Griffin and one of Microsoft founders, billionaire Paul Allen, among others.
While we’ve all had to get over NASA’s decommissioning of the aging shuttle fleet, there’s still plenty of spaceflight future — both from NASA, but also from several private firms as well.
// November 29th, 2011 // No Comments » // Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Saw this on Uncrate yesterday, and glad to see that Toyota is finally getting back into sportier cars, instead of being the solely SUV and Camry market of the past decade or so. Seems the new coupe has recently officially launched in Japan.
I love part of Uncrate’s description:
Aside from its oddball name — Toyota apparently is neither happy with its former sports car moniker nor familiar with the American meaning of “86′d”
I also love that it’s got Subaru’s 2.0 liter Boxer engine under the hood.
Edit: And here’s a link that popped up this morning on the Subaru counterpart: 2013 Subaru BRZ Breaks Cover: 2011 Tokyo Auto Show
// October 18th, 2011 // No Comments » // Eco, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
So cool!
Thanks to Bret for tweeting me this link. With it being an electric vehicle, it’ll definitely have more torque than the original. In fact, under the hood, it should beat the original every which way. 260 horsepower with a maximum speed of 125MPH sounds pretty nice.
Sadly, the price tag is going to be out of reach of most Back to the Future fanboys, going somewhere north of $100,000.
I’m not going to make the obvious jokes about Flux Capacitors or Mr. Fusions being options, like Engadget felt the need to do.
DeLorean DMC-12 EV Announced For 2013 Production, Doc Brown’s Whip Gets Real… Electric
// September 28th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, Eco, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Man, on the surface, I’d love to live in a town like this — it’d be safer and cleaner. But how do you get deliveries from FedEx, furniture, etc. I’d love to at least visit and try a town like this.
I miss being able to bike to work — maybe will be able to revisit that concept (or at least a partial) starting this coming summer when we’re in our new office building.
// August 12th, 2011 // No Comments » // Cycling, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
This seems like a great way for drivers to maximize their vehicle’s miles per gallon. It’s just a matter of if this ever sees the light of day, and if it ends up being affordable. Can you imagine though, over the lifetime of your vehicle how much money you could save by having the four pieces making contact with the road always optimally inflated.
Only hurdle to overcome with this would be how to adjust as temperatures rise and fall.
Obviously, I can envision this as an application for cycling as well, though I wonder if the low-air, but high pressures would work with a system like this.
Regardless, will be keeping an eye out for this technology, and hopefully it will be a little more reliable than most vehicles’ tire pressure monitoring systems.
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