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Mission One EV electric sports bike is perfect for millionaires

Monday, February 9th, 2009

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Living in a car-crowded city is like living in hell. Of course, if you are a car driver! Moreover, since you have to use your car to get to work every morning, better stick it in your ass. I have to confess it’s much better to cycle everyday. First for your health and second for your boss. You’ll be able to get to work on time.

Better use the train or the bus. This way you’ll save money for the new Mission One EV electric sports bike. Nowadays it’s trendy to be Eco. But there is a major problem: ECO spirit is breaking your wallet!

At the TED Conference, Mission Motors revealed its all-electric two-wheels model with a top speed of 150 MPH. The lithium-ion battery keeps your ride safe for 150 miles.

Of course, the strength of an electric drivetrain is torque and the Mission One has 100 lb-ft of the stuff on offer from the first twist of the throttle up until 60 mph/

What can I say?! I see Mission One as a solution for my year 2030 daily way to work. Because now it’s so expensive. Probably, if I had $10 million I would buy it as my favorite moto gadget. Mission One EV electric sports bike costs no more or less than $70 000. Anyway, its design made my day better!

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New cargo pod makes motorcycles fly – while attached to a plane, of course

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Airplane and motorcycle owners are probably a small niche of customers, but MotoPOD is thinking about them. The company even has a name for these people: “Motorcycle Pilot – noun. One who combines their hobbies of airplanes and motorcycles to achieve greater mobility and enjoy unique adventures.”

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With these adventurers in mind, MotoPOD offers a cargo pod that allows a motorcycle to be attached and carried by a plane. This way, the pilot won’t risk being stranded on an airport with bad public transport connections and will be able to explore the surroundings much easier, then pack up the bike and be on his/her way.

So far, MotoPOD is completing products for the Vans RV-10, but STC’d models will soon be available for the Cirrus SR-22, Cessna 182 and others.

And since an image is a thousand words… A presentation video after the break.
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Wear your speed on your back

Monday, August 25th, 2008

A new product might be hitting a store near you, if this ever gets manufactured on a large scale. In short, the Speed Vest it a biking vest that shows the motorcycle’s speed on the back of the rider, in lighted numbers, while aiming to is improve rider conspicuity while legitimizing bicycle speeds on the roadway.

Speed Vest

The system has three parts: a wheel speed sensor, a wearable numeric display made from electro-luminescent wire and a small computer that controls everything. Its ingenuity won it the first prize in the Hub Bike Shop’s Bike Gadget Contest in Minneapolis, MN and was scheduled to undergo some speed tests. Who know, we might actually see it in action in the future.

For full details and more pictures, check out the mykle system labs blog.

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New RC motorcycle has built-in gyro, learns at curves

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

We’ve covered a lot of RC toys in the past, but this one is a bit special. One, it’s not a car, for once; it’s a motorcycle, a Ducati to be exact. Two, the driver actually leans left and right with the help of the built-in gyro.

RC Ducati

And it doesn’t stop here: spring suspensions, digital proportion steering for better control and adjustable throttle response to make the bike accelerate faster or slower.

It will cost you about $100 (£50.00) when it’s released at the end of September, but all the features are worth it.

For an impressive video of the RC Ducati in action, see after the jump.
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Garmin launches custom GPS device for Harley owners

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Maybe you know of Garmin’s range of GPS devices for motorcycles. But if you’re a Harley owner, we have more good news: you now have a GPS especially for you.

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The Road Tech zūmo comes with all the features of the previous versions and adds several goodies for Harley bikers. Beside finding hotels, restaurant and gas stations, users will be able to use the included directory of Harley-Davidson dealerships and also download routes created with the ride planner at Harley-Davidson.com.

Since it’s a product for motorcycles, it’s got a glove-friendly design and it’s waterproof. It comes with a custom mount that’s tailored to fit the rough riding and features a theft prevention system that disables the zūmo until the user types in a specific 4-digit PIN or takes the unit to a predetermined secure location.

Buell motorcycle owners will soon be able to buy special Road Tech zūmos, with the same features and functions.

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Silly helmet covers help bikers scare old ladies better

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

Silly Helmet CoversIf you’ve got an open face helmet which is great, but just doesn’t have that je ne sais quoi, you can try to spice things up a bit. Turn a few heads, scare a couple of old ladies…

The Silly Helmet Covers will certainly make people stare at you. And why wouldn’t they, when you ride past with a spiky helmet that looks right out of Conan the Barbarian? (You might not be Arnold material, though.)

Silly Helmet Covers

You can see the covers and decide which works best on your helmet on the Silly Helmet Covers website and buy them from eBay for $36 a piece.

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External airbags to save lives and making biking safer

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Even if you’re one of the lucky cyclists living in a country where this is a commonplace means of transportation, this doesn’t automatically ensure safety. Drivers are more used to sharing the road with bicycles, but accidents still happen. Same goes for motorcycles.
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A Swedish company, Autoliv Inc., has designed a new type of airbag to deal with this problem: an airbag that deploys from the A-pillars and extends over the hood and part of the windshield.

This could save many lives if used on a wide scale – a study cited by the Dutch Cycling Federation said that external airbags could help avoid 60 fatalities each year, and could also eliminate 1,500 serious injuries a year.

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Cool motorcycle case mod wins second place in NVIDIA-sponsored competition

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Impressive? You won’t ever see this motorcycle on a road: it’s a PC case mod by Russian Dennis “Xooler” Ilyin.

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This design was entered in a case modding sponsored by NVIDIA and won second place. Did it deserve first place? I’m not sure, you can check out the entries here (the site is in Russian, unfortunately).

One more photo after the jump.
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Ducati branded SanDisk flash drive released

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

SanDisk and Ducati have teamed up and released an official USB drive. The SanDisk Extreme Ducati Edition USB Flash Drive offers 4GB of storage and its design parallels that of a Ducati MotoGP motorcycle.

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You also get a lanyard to match the drive, but I’m not sure if that makes the $125 price tag worth it…

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Do you need speakers for your bike? Check out the View Gate VMP-300

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Speakers on a motocycle don’t make much sense… But perhaps you want to listen to music while standing still. If you feel this is the accessory your bike was missing, check out the View Gate VMP-300 Motorbike Speakers. They have a 25W output, have built-in 15W amplifiers and are powered by 12V DC. They come a handy attachment kit for quick mounting and they’re 81×90×101 mm in size.

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They can be connected to any music player with a standard connection – but it would have to be pretty sturdy to stand the bike trip. They are available for about $100.

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