Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Infrared Display On Motorcycles - See Chickens Crossing The Road At Night plus 2 more

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Infrared Display On Motorcycles - See Chickens Crossing The Road At Night plus 2 more

Link to Bikes in the Fast Lane - Daily Motorcycle News

Idea: Infrared Display On Motorcycles - See Chickens Crossing The Road At Night

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT

Infrared Road Display
#Idea #Quirky #Infrared - Here's one of those ideas that on paper is really good, but in practise will never be applied. The idea can be found on the Quirky site, waiting for votes to bring it into the next phase.

The idea is to attach a special infrared sensor chip to a smartphone. The display on your phone will then show all thermal images it can detect, particularly at night. The idea is that when riding at night, your phone can display "warm bodies" on the road, like pedestrians, cyclists, dogs and even other vehicles (car engines are hot in case you are wondering)...........

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A BMW Motorcycle Powered Citroen 2CV Car

Posted: 19 Jun 2013 05:00 AM PDT

2CV BMW
2CV BMW
#BMW #2CV - The French 2CV car from Citroen has been one of those cars that have marked a generation, maybe even two generations. The car was very light, easy to repair, and could drive on anything, even drive better on snow than purpose built snow cars.

Of course, it was very under powered and very slow, but that was the magic about this car. Hippies and grandparents would drive it, basking in the sound of the 2 HP engine (2CV means 2 HP in French) purring away.

But what if you wanted the car to go a bit faster? Apart from putting burning alcohol or nitro methanol into the engine, there isn't much you can do about it, until Sparrow Automotive decided otherwise.

This British engineering company will remove the original engine and put in a BMW motorcycle engine of your choice. Your choice are between 850 cc and 1200 cc BMW motorcycle engines...........

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France: Cop Gets Driving License Torn Up For Motorcycle Speeding

Posted: 18 Jun 2013 11:00 PM PDT

Speeding Motorcycle
France flag
#France #Police #Speeding - I guess not all cops are born equal, some of them will get hit as hard as we civilians do by their brothers-in-arms. A police officer got caught speeding on his personal motorcycle on a road limited to 110 kph. He was "racing" his motorcycle at 186 kph (with the margins used by the police, he was officially clocked at 176 kph).

When he was stopped by his colleagues, he told them that he was riding in a group, and he was trying to catch up with the other bikers.

Later on he left the scene as a passenger/pillion since his license was taken away on the spot. He'll now have a date with a judge.

So it is possible for cops to ticket cops, which is a good thing, but IMHO it rarely happens. But it shows that at times a) cops are honest enough to ticket other cops and b) cops are human and do things they shouldn't be doing.

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