Armoured Cat Thursday

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Armored Cruiser Thursday

while not strictly speaking an armored cruiser the French la Gloire was armored and was the first ocean going armored ship in the world. commissioned into the French Navy in 1860 la Gloire beat the Royal Navy's HMS Warrior and HMS Black Prince into service. la Gloire was a wooden hulled vessel plated with 4.7" iron over most of her hull. as designed...

Value of Motorcycles

It is Summer( in Northern hemisphere). You will see many riders on the road. It is natural that used bike price goes up when the weather is nice and sunny. Those riders on the roads are free advertisement for motorcycle industries. In other words, you get better deal buying bikes when it is cold, wet and miserable. It is true. Old bikes are hard...

Happy Birthday Cockeye!!

Party?Today is also Amanda Donohoe, Fred Grandy, Richard Lewis, Gary Busey, Robert Evans, and Slim Pikens' birthd...

Running Stripes

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Good ATie

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Spark Plugs

just noticed i had no A.C. ads in my previous post. here are 3 nice on...

Spark Plugs

no doubt in our internal combustion filled lives we've all had to deal with one or more of these. Spark Plugs. can't live without them. the first spark plug was invented{supposedly, i can find no definite proof}in 1839 by one Edmond Berger. most early plugs as well as most early internal combustion engines were made in France. Albert Champion...

2010 Cookstown

Cookstown 100 is an annual Irish road races that ususally held in April . For full info and report on this year's races: 2010 Cookstown 100. Or visit Their official site: Cookstown 100....

Trike for Wheelchair

You might have seen wheelchair bikes going by time to time. Those look like regular motorcycles with side cars but you don't see a rider on the saddle- kinda freaky if you don't know what you are looking at... Anyway much cooler and easier for disabled was created by Conquest wheelchair Motorcycle. It has debuted on June 4- the National Veteran’s...

Possibly the Coolest Met Ever

Motorcycles Helmets Plus Chalkboard Paint by Carl Burgess and Tom DarracottI might actually make my own soon...

Mega Fridge

It is nice to hide or disguise your fridge if you often have rude guests that like to raid your fridge, leaving almost empty juice container or finish off the last beer you had and all. This massive, all-in-one fridge poses as a highly crafted ship cabinet. Sadly, cost you roughly 10K.... Well, if I hit a jackpot...wait, I probably donate...

How Triumph Rocket 3 is made

This is bit old, but pretty good footage. The braking test made my nuts shrank...

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even though this is an internal combustion powered trike i feel it must go under the "strange machines" catego...

man held up by victorian machines 1883

the machine in front is definitly searching for the poor man's wallet. the machine behind is holding some sort of deadly object up to the man's spine to make him stay absolutely sti...

War of the Pacific{the Battle of Iquique}

this is a picture of the Peruvian armored turret ship Huascar sinking the Chilean corvette Esmeralda,May 21,1879. Miguel Grau the Peruvian commander asked Capitan Arturo Prat of the Esmeralda to surrender. Prat refused even though his wooden ship could do very little harm to the armored Huascar. thus the Esmeralda was destroyed with heavy loss...

Lego Helmet

A work ofSebastian ErrazurizHe is an artist designer who works with an experimental style that provokes thought and humorin everyday objec...

The Best Client Letter

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don't forget the b00b show tonite!

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Ducati Hypermotard

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Armoured Cruiser Thursday

HMS Defence the last armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy. she was commissioned in Feb. of 1909. 519ft long with 2 4cyl triple expansion engines she made 27,000hp, good for 22.9kts. main battery of 9.2" guns and secondary of 7.5" guns. as flagship of the 1st cruiser squadron under rear admiral Robert Arbuthnot HMS Defence went up in a ball...

bOObs on bikes

every year in New Zealand they have what started out as the bOObs on bikes parade. looks like by now it is the bOObs on bikes, cars and armoured vehicles parade. whatever it is Wichita could use one. it would draw tourists our glorious leaders and city council would love it. maybe it could start on Commerce Stre...

THE B@@B SHOW

GOAWAYGARAGEGALLERY508 S. CommerceWichita, KsPRESENTSA RATED R ( ADULTS ONLY SHOW)“THE B@@B SHOW” A GROUP ART SHOWJUNE 25TH, 2010 FINAL FRIDAY OPENING 7-10p.m.Exhibit runs through JULY 2,with a closing Reception from 7-10p.m.MUSIC FIRST FRIDAY JULY 2 8:30 to 10:00FEATURING MUSIC & VIDEO BYFROM DENVERhttp://www.cramer.org/art/&...

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Deer Hunter

Oh Deer.... If you are busy just watch from 1:25 mark. Your welco...

one more steam clock

this clock which is much like the one in Gastown in Vancouver, B.C. is in the port city of Otaru in Japan. the reason it is so similar is because it was built by the same person although this one is newer and somewhat larg...

IOM TT 1907

these are basically the only pictures i've found so far of Charlie Collier the overall winner of the first IOM TT in 1907. Charlie had the fastest speed of all classes 38.2 mph thus winning the race. he also won the single cylinder class. Rem Fowler on Norton won the multi-cylinder class. Charlie and his brother Harry both entered the race but...