Thursday, July 26, 2012

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Review: Screaming Banshee - Super Loud Motorcycle Horn plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Review: Screaming Banshee - Super Loud Motorcycle Horn plus 2 more

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Review: Screaming Banshee - Super Loud Motorcycle Horn

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 09:00 AM PDT

Screaming Banshee 01
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Sometime ago we mentioned this Kickstart project involving the Banshee motorcycle horn. It was the idea of an enterprising person in the USA that wanted to make a proper and safe horn for motorcycles. Motorcycle horns are notorious for being lame; sounding like a duck with a severe cold.

The Banshee horn, when pressed normally, would still sound like a duck, but when pressed a bit longer, it would blow the socks off that truck driver moving into your lane because he is busy watching TV while sending a SMS to his girlfriend. The horn also will flash your high beams, so people will also know where the danger is coming from. Great idea.

Well, the good new is that the Kickstarter project got fully funded, and the horn is being manufactured and sold. To mark the occasion, Screaming Banshee LLC, the company founded for this horn, sent me a version of their horn to test out........

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Living In Your Helmet

Posted: 26 Jul 2012 05:00 AM PDT

Helmet House Simpson
Helmet House Photoshop
Some folks just can't get enough of having their helmet on, and not only when riding a motorcycle. Their love for motorcycle helmets extends to their living quarters.

So why not make your house in the shape of a helmet? It's a novel idea, though some houses have been built that closely look like a helmet, they were never meant to be one.

Here are two "houses", the first more a shack, the second a pure PhotoChop imagination of a helmet house. Buy why not? It could be an interesting project for an architect.

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Mario’s Motorcycle Art

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Mario Mallari Motorcycle Art
Mario Mallari Motorcycle Art
Here's a guy from the Philippines, Mario Mallari Jr, how makes some nice art from scraps of metal.

A lot of the art objects are motorcycles, in different shapes and forms. Nice stuff.

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