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80s Superhero Alert: Motorcycle Features Full-Sized Sidecar

11:02PM June 29, 2009 | Mark Wilson

The sidecar always seemed like a precarious way to ride a motorcycle. So maybe it’s a good thing that this ridiculous yet awe-indicting “Snaefell” fit a whole 2-seater car on the side of a bike. More »


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350KPH Japanese Train Will be Good For the Environment, Going 350KPH

7:45PM September 25, 2008 | John Herrman

Rail-happy Japan, a country that probably takes great joy in watching America’s embarrassingly slow and fitful adoption of high-speed and maglev trains, will be graced with new breed of green, 300+ kph trains by 2010. Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the designer of these new trains, isn’t promoting speed as the main selling point—Japan railways have seen much faster hardware fly down the tracks before—but instead is emphasising its environmental benefits.

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