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Monday, July 22, 2013

Bikes in the Fast Lane: Idea: Why This Alternative Electric Charging Will Not Work - Wind Cycle plus 2 more

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Idea: Why This Alternative Electric Charging Will Not Work - Wind Cycle
Video: Ladies, I Think This Ibis Ad Is For You
In The Start Them Young Department: Motorcycle Mechanics

Idea: Why This Alternative Electric Charging Will Not Work - Wind Cycle

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT

#Electric #Kickstarter #Motorcycle - Sometimes it hurts me when I see a crowd-funding project which I know will fail miserably while the project owner firmly believes he has found the Egg of Columbus. In this case it is the Wind Cycle project on Kickstarter.

If you have a look at the introduction video, you can see that Brandon really believes it can work, but physics will prove him wrong. The idea is to use Ultra Capacitors instead of batteries, and have them charged while you ride your electric motorcycle using wind turbines.

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Video: Ladies, I Think This Ibis Ad Is For You

Posted: 22 Jul 2013 05:00 AM PDT

#Advertising #Ibis #Hotel - The French hotel group, Ibis Hotels, have released a TV commercial campaign here in France, and one of the advertisements has a couple arriving on a motorcycle, with the female pillion throwing a fit (I think I've been there before, done that before).

At the end, the TV commercial says you can save â‚¬15. Funny ad because we probably have all seen it before...

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In The Start Them Young Department: Motorcycle Mechanics

Posted: 21 Jul 2013 11:00 PM PDT