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Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2013
6:09 PM
ahihi
my best guess is that the outboard motor, through a flex drive, operates a reduction gear housing hidden from view by the front fender, but the drive wheel can be seen riding on the front wheel in the above photo, through a cut out in the fender. An idler wheel rolls a v drive belt via a shaft, and that spins the cooling fan in front of the radiator.
this might have been stored since the moment some mom had the scare of her life seeing her boy ride it.
Evinrude seems to have made, or licensed its name to bicycles: http://thecabe.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?16024-Finally-find-a-good-bike-and-its-a-darned-boys-bike&p=79860#post79860
Saturday, April 13, 2013
11:28 AM
ahihi
http://www.duesselrad.de/
with Google translate garbling the original a bit, here is an article from Stephan Wapnner:
Maes goes mobile
The bike service Düsselrad: Franz-Josef Maes leads the store successfully for ten years - and with quiet hands.
On the office table a fossil, a worn typewriter, "I like old things," said the friendly man with blue overalls, steel-rimmed glasses and wild, gray hair. "I like the representation of old things."
He points to a wall calendar, on the February Journal the painting of a traditional road bike can be seen.
Franz-Josef Maes, who is called by friends, acquaintances and even many customers "Jojo", has made a passion for bikes into a career.
He runs the bike trade and service "Düsselrad". Not only for the people in the district is a first port of call when it comes to his beloved vehicle. Düsselrad is in a romantic-looking backyard in Unterbilk. Düsselrad consists of approximately 200 square meters area of two "showrooms", a workshop and an office, with more than 2000 jobs annually. And the impression that the company Dusselrad gives to visitors is that this is a third or fourth generation shop.
Maes began ten years ago. "I somehow managed that people believe it has been here always," smiles the 49-year-old. There is no customer mass treatment, a maximum of one well-organized chaos, and - above all - the owner and his partner Andrew "Isi" Mertner - friendly and competent advice.
Maes Mobility - convenient and good. Düsselrad is in four years, the producers of the popular bicycle. A high quality manufacturer whose "skeleton" is made in a workshop, and the Bielefeld partner at Concordia Street - is refined - according to the individual wishes of the customer.
Handlebar, saddle, bell, pedals and colors of Powder Blue on toxic green to gray mouse - In Düsselrad everyone gets their own personal Düsselrad experience. "I'm sort Kleinkonfektionär" said Maes, who asks 600 to 800 euros for one of these bicycles.
"Jojo" Maes, who somehow reminds me of Gyro Gearloose, has not always made bicycles, earlier he has chauffeured people in a balloon over Europe and the western United States, then the dreamer came slowly back down, building Internet networks temporarily in Munich. "But I realized that I do not fit into Bavaria and especially that modern working life is not for me with his strange hierarchical thinking," said Maes. Then, "Jojo" settled down and founded in his hometown Düsselrad.
"The decision I have never regretted," says the bike expert who has for pretty much anything that moves, a driver's license. and with his wife Sabine and for many years with the motorcycle took part in the so-called team race in the Eifel. The numerous trophies that are available in the workshop on the shelves make it clear that the two are a good team on the road.
Maes collects bikes - the oldest model from 1910 hangs on a wall in the courtyard - but also motorcycle tanks and even typewriters. What he does not like are mountain bikes but such "mountain bikes" Düsselrad takes in for repair, if the bottom bracket is down or chain is broken. Ever for Maes and his colleagues "Isi" no job is too delicate. Stephan Wappner
http://www.duesselrad.de/
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
6:37 PM
ahihi
found on http://www.facebook.com/BeachcruiserEspana and they are bike crazy!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
5:00 PM
ahihi
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Monday, October 15, 2012
8:08 PM
ahihi
Once ready for production, the bicycle will include no metal parts, even the brake mechanism and the wheel and pedal bearings will be made of recycled substances, although Gafni said he could not yet reveal those details due to pending patent issues.
cardboard and other recycled materials could bring a major change in current production norms because grants and rebates would only be given for local production and there would be no financial benefits by making bicycles in cheap labor markets.
"This is a real game-changer. It changes ... the way products are manufactured and shipped, it causes factories to be built everywhere instead of moving production to cheaper labor markets, everything that we have known in the production world can change," he said.
Elmish said the cardboard bikes would be made on largely automated production lines and would be supplemented by a workforce comprising pensioners and the disabled.
Elmish said the business model they had created meant that rebates for using "green" materials would entirely cancel out production costs and this could allow for bicycles to be given away for free in poor countries.
Producers would reap financial rewards from advertisements such as from multinational companies who would pay for their logo to be part of the frame, he explained.
"Because you get a lot of government grants, it brings down the production costs to zero, so the bicycles can be given away for free. We are copying a business model from the high-tech world where software is distributed free because it includes embedded advertising," Elmish explained.
http://news.yahoo.com/cardboard-bicycle-change-world-says-israeli-inventor-090732689.html
Friday, September 21, 2012
8:50 PM
ahihi
This is the only time I've seen scales in the pits... huh!
Looks like the Von Dutch Flying eyeball... Just saying
Above, a Lister, below, a Falcon Sprint
Red white and blue racing tape... clever!
Fisker Karma... hybrid 4 door sports car
There seems to be twice as many drifters as last year
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