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Clymer Manuals Channel on YouTube

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

I am a big fan of the Clymer service manuals and I have one for just about every bike I own. I was pleased to learn of their YouTube channel this morning where they have all sorts of groovy scooter and motorcycle videos posted. Go by and check them out and if you like what […]

Behind the scenes of the NPS600 SuperRuckus

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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The most sinister of scooters, the NPS600, was first mentioned on the Scoop back in 2007 with a tiny little video. This Kansas City contraption is the masterpiece of a madman called “PomeRuck” over on the TotalRuckus.com site (see title link). After the video we wanted more. How was it done? What sort of work […]

Scooters featured in Rod & Kulture Magazine

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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(Here’s a scan of just 1 page from the 4 page article. Looks like fun! Except for the whole “makin’ out with the pavement” part.) If you get Traditional Rod & Kulture Illustrated magazine in your neck-of-the-woods, then you’ll probably find lucky issue #13 on your shelfs by now (Spring 2008). Rod & Kulture is […]

DIY of the day – The Blinker Jacket

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

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Designed more for bicyclists, Leah Buechley’s “Signal Jacket” is her answer for, hopefully, getting noticed by motorists. I spend maybe a few hours a month meditating on the “how to make scooterists MORE visible”. I don’t know if this is necessarily the answer, but I do tip my hat to Leah for taking the initiative. […]

DIY of the day – the eSnake electirc 3-wheeler

Thursday, March 20, 2008

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(Watch the e-Snake, e-Slither around the e… *sign*, “e-” is dead… but the scooter is cool!) Hats off to Prof. Vittore Cossalter & Prof. Giuseppe Buja’s fine team of students who knocked out this prototype for a three-wheeled, tilting, electric. The goal was short distance, low consumption, low emission, in a small package that could […]

Video: Helix-3, for the person with more ingenuity than cash

Thursday, July 5, 2007

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Topping out at 56MPH comes this baby… The do it yourself tilting 3-wheeler. The mad scientist behind the Helix-3 believes that the 3-wheeler’s time has come. Here’s a quote: …in the last twenty years interest in three-wheelers has been revived. Many individuals and a number of factories such as Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Piaggio or Van-der-Brink offer […]