Bikes in the Fast Lane: Artist Makes Motorcycle Out Of 20,000 Candies - Sweet Tooth plus 2 more

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• Artist Makes Motorcycle Out Of 20,000 Candies - Sweet Tooth
• UK: 1000s Of Speeding Fines To Be Binned Due To Wrong Font Used
• France: Little Known Fact - All Motorcycle Helmets Require Stickers!

Artist Makes Motorcycle Out Of 20,000 Candies - Sweet Tooth Posted: 14 Mar 2013 09:00 AM PDT Talk about having a sweet tooth! 32 year old, Orlando, Florida based artist, Cristiam Ramos makes his art using a different material than most artists. Artists use common materials like paint or clay, maybe metals, but very few, maybe even only one, use candy. Cristiam does exactly that. He's been making portraits of famous people using sweets, and now he's made this life-size motorcycle totally out of candy. Using anything you can find in your local grocery shop; M&Ms, bubble gum, liquorice, Gummy Bears, you name it. If you can eat it, if it's sweet, you'll probably find it on the motorcycle. 20,000 candy pieces went into this motorcycle........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

UK: 1000s Of Speeding Fines To Be Binned Due To Wrong Font Used Posted: 14 Mar 2013 05:00 AM PDT Sometimes, rare I admit it, you got to love lawyers. In the UK, on a stretch of road on the M42 motorway, the Highways Agency has been using the wrong font for their variable speed limits. The electronic signs that got placed there in 2006 signal different speed limits according to road conditions and traffic. And there lies the problem: the font used for the electronic signs was too narrow, or at least, not in compliance with the standards set in 2002. In the mean time, thousands of cars and motorcycles have been fined, and the lawyers want these fines squashed........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: Little Known Fact - All Motorcycle Helmets Require Stickers! Posted: 13 Mar 2013 11:00 PM PDT Here's a little fact that few people know, even those living in France. France is the only country in the world, to my knowledge, that requires all motorcycle helmets to have reflective stickers. Officially you need four reflective stickers; front, rear and both sides. The surface of each sticker needs to be 18 cm2, and within each sticker you need to be able to draw a 40mm diameter circle, or a 12.50 cm2 rectangle with a minimum 20 mm length. The stickers should not be removable (without damaging the helmet) and remain reflective over time. Crazy as it may sound, this is true, and if you get caught without one, you get fined €135 and they deduct 3 points from your license. So you get docked the money and points even if you motorcycle helmet itself has been properly homologated........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

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