Category Archive for ‘gearhead’ at Pervasivelight 5.0

so Mayor Bloomie wants to start charging drivers $8 a day to enter (what everyone in brooklyn calls) the city (manhattan below 96th street). while i generally don’t think that this it’s the .gov’s job, i would like to propose a modest compromise that may help to ease congestion. bring back the motorcycle (and scooter for you hip kids) parking. it works pretty damn good in italia, and even frogland (or at least it did until the commies of paris started cracking down on 2 wheelers and implemented, suprise suprise, congestion taxes for the cages).

amazing

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dave

on June 2, 2007

in gearhead

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Beautiful Music

Published

dave

on March 26, 2007

in gearhead

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i gotta get out of here (v2)

Published

dave

on February 16, 2007

in freedom, gearhead and political

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Jeebus H. Keerist on a flaming pogo stick. did someone put something in our water? Now some jagoff wants to ban spinny wheels? Shat’s next? A blanket ban on shiny objects?

New York State is taking fresh legal steps to ban spinning hubcaps and wheels. Bill Number 1640 is presently being considered by the Senate Transportation Committee, and it would make such wheels illegal statewide. The bill was introduced previously, but it is now gaining traction after being reintroduced by State Senator John Sabini. The measure would fine vehicle owners up to $750 for a third (or subsequent) violation.

And now, for your viewing pleasure. The object of the latest bit of retardation, the ban I mean, not the wheels

Biking while high

Published

dave

on January 29, 2007

in Funny and gearhead

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Literally…

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From Mike Werner

On BMW bikes and extremes

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dave

on January 22, 2007

in cool and gearhead

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Walking in to the Cycleworld show, I had never even considered one of those expensive, gizmo-rific, yuppie BMWs.

Walking out, I knew I had to have the F650GS. I sat on it and I was hooked, friggin Germans and their goddamn great engineering.

So today I’m doing my homework, looking at reliability, pricing ($~8000USD. yes for the whole thing!) and reading boards by riders and modders when I came across this.

Paul “IceMan” Mondor is a F650 rider from Victoria, BC (that’s Canada for us Americans… you know that place up north where they talk funny) that (at the time) was inquiring about the possibility of doing a cross Canada trip on his F650.

Sounds easy right? How about in January?