Posted on 29 January 2010 by admin
Filed under: MPG, On Two Wheels, USA
California Scooter Company Greaser - Click above for image gallery
When you think of a classic road-going Mustang, visions of Blue Ovals and good ol’ Carroll Shelby likely begin dancing in your head. But there was a highly collectible Mustang in America way before Ford decided what we really needed was an affordable sportscar for the masses. Instead of four wheels, the first Mustangs needed just two to get the job done.
The original Mustang motorcycle was introduced in 1947 by a small company in Glendale, CA. The diminutive machines used a small 122cc two-stroke engine from Villiers and wheels measuring a scant 12-inches in diameter. They weren’t exactly performance machines, but the Mustang got around pretty smartly and granted 20,000 new riders to hit the wide open road.
Now, California Scooter Company plans to launch a new Mustang to the American market, this time using a more environmentally friendly 149cc four-stroke powerplant that can reportedly return some 60 miles per gallon in normal operation with a top speed of 55 miles per hour. Wheels retain the original dinner plate-size. Three versions will be available; one standard model that’s tough to distinguish at first glance from the original, a (completely unfortunate) pink Babydoll version and a flat-black bobber called the Greaser. Alternatively, you can order a custom model just the way you want it.
Production bikes are scheduled for availability in March for a starting price of $4,995 for all three models. Check out the image gallery below and click past the break for a couple videos showing the bikes in action.
[Source: California Scooter Company via Motorcycle Classics]
Continue reading California Scooter Company puts classic Mustang back on two wheels, reports 60 mpg
California Scooter Company puts classic Mustang back on two wheels, reports 60 mpg originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 29 January 2010 by admin
The rumored desktop dock for the Nexus One has been made official today — conveniently (and accurately) bearing the official name of Nexus One Desktop Dock — running $45 sold separately or bundled with your phone purchase. As expected, dropping the phone into the dock triggers the Clock application to fire up to give you access to alarms, music, and weather (not unlike the Droid), but the special sauce lies out back where you’ll find a 3.5mm jack that connects to your stereo system using an included 3.5mm-to-RCA cable. A charger’s included to keep the phone topped off while it’s relaxing in the cradle, too, and considering the presence of Bluetooth here, we’re guessing audio is ferried via A2DP rather than a hardwired connection. Technology! The dock’s available right now for buy directly from Google.
Nexus One Desktop Dock now available for $45 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:37:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 29 January 2010 by admin
Filed under: MPG, On Two Wheels, USA
California Scooter Company Greaser - Click above for image gallery
When you think of a classic road-going Mustang, visions of Blue Ovals and good ol’ Carroll Shelby likely begin dancing in your head. But there was a highly collectible Mustang in America way before Ford decided what we really needed was an affordable sportscar for the masses. Instead of four wheels, the first Mustangs needed just two to get the job done.
The original Mustang motorcycle was introduced in 1947 by a small company in Glendale, CA. The diminutive machines used a small 122cc two-stroke engine from Villiers and wheels measuring a scant 12-inches in diameter. They weren’t exactly performance machines, but the Mustang got around pretty smartly and granted 20,000 new riders to hit the wide open road.
Now, California Scooter Company plans to launch a new Mustang to the American market, this time using a more environmentally friendly 149cc four-stroke powerplant that can reportedly return some 60 miles per gallon in normal operation with a top speed of 55 miles per hour. Wheels retain the original dinner plate-size. Three versions will be available; one standard model that’s tough to distinguish at first glance from the original, a (completely unfortunate) pink Babydoll version and a flat-black bobber called the Greaser. Alternatively, you can order a custom model just the way you want it.
Production bikes are scheduled for availability in March for a starting price of $4,995 for all three models. Check out the image gallery below and click past the break for a couple videos showing the bikes in action.
[Source: California Scooter Company via Motorcycle Classics]
Continue reading California Scooter Company puts classic Mustang back on two wheels, reports 60 mpg
California Scooter Company puts classic Mustang back on two wheels, reports 60 mpg originally appeared on Autoblog Green on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:42:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted on 29 January 2010 by admin
| This is a nice mod right here. You might want to jailbreak your iPhone if only for this one. It’s called LiveTime, and it’s an app that animates and updates the clock on your SpringBoard, allowing it to display the current time. When you install LiveTime, it will begin to animate your clock icon automatically.
  
Do note that when you first install LiveTime, it’s gonna be an overlay on your stock icon, so you’re gonna see the stock time under the animated clock. Installing LiveTime, however, adds a theme to WinterBoard with the title “LiveTime Clock.” Go into Winterboard and activate it, then the icon will change so that only the animated clock is shown.
Ideal part is, this baby is available in Cydia and comes for free!
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Posted on 28 January 2010 by admin
The same cat that brought us the last Magnum scoop is back again, this time with a short video detailing the differences between RIM’s supposed first effort at making a touchscreen / QWERTY hybrid device and its nearest cousins, the Bold 9000 and 9700. Notably, the narrator points out that the phone shares its keyboard design more closely with the 9000 than the 9700 — for aficionados, this can be a crucial difference — and it generally shares its physical cues with the older Bold apart from a move to micro-USB (and the SurePress screen, of course). Sadly, the proto here lacks an operating system so there’s not terribly much to see beyond the hardware itself, but it might all be for naught — the latest intel advocates that this phone has been supplanted by a mysterious “Dakota” with updated specs, so we’ll just have to hang on to our Curves and Storms for a tiny while longer. Follow the break for the full video.
Continue reading RIM’s (doomed?) BlackBerry Magnum makes its video debut
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Now that Blyk’s free-service-for-ads model has officially bitten the dust, we’re starting to see new ideas come out of the woodwork from the Dutch company that might (or might not) stand a better chance of striking a survivable balance of value and profitability. Orange UK has announced that it’ll be launching Orange Shots as of February 1, a program for advertisers that lets them target subscribers of its Monkey prepaid service in very specific ways. Sound familiar? Yeah, that was pretty much what Blyk had been doing all along — difference being that they’re no longer trading access to that targeted group for free minutes and texts. As far as we have the ability to tell, Orange is simply offering its subscribers the hope of getting special offers from advertisers, meaning its margins are probably going to be a lot higher here than Blyk’s ever were before — assuming Monkey customers concur to sign up, of course. For now, it’s purely opt-in; let’s hope it stays that way.
