Mutula’s exclusive lane for President, PM and VP absurd

Kilemi Mwiria We laud the Minister for Nairobi Metropolitan Development Mutula Kilonzo for his vigour to make Nairobi more habitable and ... learn from Europe and Asia where bicycles and mopeds are an essential element of urban transportation [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 18:11:27

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Road Trip 2: the taxis and assorted traffic beasts of Jakarta

Almost every local I have met tells me to take only Gamya and Blue Bird cabs. Yes I know, Blue Bird in Hokkien is, tee hee ... questions. Motorbikes and mopeds in Jakarta are psychic. They will move off at the traffic light a good [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 04:41:03

And the panel says.... Muu

And the panel says.... Muu Furniture Written by Geraldine Cardozo 12.11.2008 ... that is. With these gorgeous panels – cherry blossom, mopeds and helicopters, whales and butterfly to name a few [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 01:38:28

AutoblogGreen for 07.10.08

Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Green An electric police car in Japan, a greener Lotus Elise, ... Derringer Cycles creates board track-inspired mopeds "Revenge of the Electric Car," coming to a theater [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 05:47:00

Five gadgets to beat the credit crunch

The newspapers may have been spouting on about the credit crunch for well over a year now, ... Scoota Firebox don’t just sell remote control helicopters - this electric moped has serious cost [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 15:18:29

2009 Star VMAX Motorcycle

2009 Star VMAX Motorcycle This one might just make the batmo-bike piss its pants. The 2009 Star VMAX Motorcycle is a serious street ride, a bundle of muscle and pavement-hungry ... black” color that comes standard on most Suzuki mopeds… Buy: $17,990 [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 14:00:57

Could a motorcycle/scooter go hybird?

I've seen the 2005 posts on the Honda Numo, but as we were driving along today and a scooter passed us, ... past my moped days, but even now I might opt for a scooter that was stable enough for short [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 19:52:07

Nigerian Governor Declares Himself to be “Religious Hero” over Shariah Implementation

A hilarious quote from Ibrahim Shekarau, governor of Kano state in Nigeria: ... of effort into preventing women from riding on taxi mopeds. Shekarau was largely responsible for fanning [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 08:13:59

Bystander killed in grocery shop shooting

LONDON (Reuters) - A teenager shot dead in a London grocery store appears to have been an innocent bystander hit by bullets fired from gunmen on mopeds, police said on Thursday. [more...]

Date: 2008-08-07 07:46:01

Through Ian's Lens: Beyond Olympic China

In June, my wife and I spent 10 days in China visiting my sister-in-law, who was studying there ... the juxtaposition of the number of cars to the number of bicycles, mopeds and scooters. Chinese [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 17:20:34

Moped Accident Leaves Man in Critical Condition

A man is fighting for his life after he was hit on his moped by another vehicle. [more...]

Date: 2008-09-27 19:36:38

Saab O The Week: Low-miler Saab 96

We haven’t had a Saab O The Week entry for a while. Time for that to change. I love old Saabs and I envy those who have them ... because they thought it was safe and great in winter. I traded my moped and got full value [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 09:56:53

Hybrid Car

Hybrid Car 25 November, 2008 (01:08) | Hybrid Cars | No comments By hybrid car we refer to any vehicle that relies on two separate power sources ... beside the hybrid car we will mainly deal with here. Just think of mopeds and electric bicycles [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 00:08:29

Thankfulness

Motorcyclist: “Oh lah dee dah, I am just so grateful to have a special spot for mopeds and motorcycles that I will not use that spot and instead TAKE UP A PERFECTLY GOOD SPOT NEXT TO THAT ONE.” [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 21:24:25

Hey I've seen you before...

Funny how when you take a second look. This is the same girl in the post about Mopeds here...(and strangely enough of all the zillions of girls in SF) she is the same girl I posted way back months [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 21:29:00

Stupid Policy

Stupid Policy by BooMan Sun Aug 24th, 2008 at 03:31:40 PM EST Wingnuts never think through the consequences of their actions ... -utility vehicles with sirens, chasing down cars and mopeds that ignored the posted warnings [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 19:32:26

Teen Smartiepants Passes Knowledge

A 19 year old boy has become the youngest ever candidate to pass The Knowledge ... confined to his moped till 2010.... courier companies, we suggest you get this boy on board pronto [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 21:56:37

Sleek Performance: AND1 ME8 Mid **New Colorway**

Golden State’s Monta Ellis is chilling on injured reserve until January, the victim of a chaotic self-induced moped incident. To add insult to his injury, Ellis lied to Warriors officials [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 07:54:12

[Curbed] Three Cents Worth: Deflating Havoc Across The Region

After a several months of following the campaign culminating in my moped ride in the NYC Marathon for NBC as a spotter, it was time to switch myThree Cents Worth column on Curbed back [more...]

Date: 2008-11-06 17:27:01

mashed phot(at)os and gravy

Guess what I had for dinner last night? No. No. Nope. No. No. YUP! ... so instead of leaving a message I just hung up and moped to the subway. I noticed at the subway [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 05:05:08

Fantasy Impact of Al Harrington-Jamal Crawford Trade

Golden State has agreed to send Al Harrington to the Knicks for Jamal Crawford ...  until he can stay away from Mopeds long enough to make a recovery.  The Warriors play an uptempo [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 21:37:12

Guest Column: The misery of mopeds, the scourge of scooters

Is there some sort of motorized scooter conspiracy with our school's administration working behind the scenes to keep our athletes riding them? ... Read full story [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 04:24:02

“Anti-Racism Slouch” Hits New Low

Saturday 29 November 2008 was a great day for the British National Party, ... of Scotland! We watched this painful Hobble…and it was painful to watch. Barely 200 miserablists moped [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 19:31:59

7 Water Saving Questions, How to Go Green: Job Searches and Donating Denim

Ernie said: "Great comment Paul! :)..." damares said: "yeah, that's already been invented.. ... ..." read said: "I've recently review both the Vectrix scooter and the Honda Moped on my scooter [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 19:54:10

Vintage motorbikes by Ridley

Here's a cool vintage bike for the garage or golf course — the Ridley Vintage Motorbike ... as cool as these board track racer mopeds with the Whizzer engines, but still a pretty cool thing [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 23:21:36

Sydney Lumet: Gloria (1999)

Find Me Guilty (2006) - Thank you. Finally back to some great Lumet work ... with the same theme and the film drearily moped along through to a decent spark at the end. Too [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 19:41:00

Anjuna: Hippie and fleas

Rather than face falling–helmetless–off a moped, I splashed out to the tune of 350 INR (£4.38) to hire a taxi driver for a few hours to take me to the famed Anjuna flea market in Goa. Anjuna [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 07:58:47

Manipur bomb explosion toll mounts to 17, 30 injured

Two more people injured in a powerful bomb explosion at the Manipur capital here died overnight, ... Police commando complex, which is a residential area in Imphal. The bomb was kept in a moped fitted [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 06:14:55

Motorcycle economy still up

sm_s_rhs.jpg The economy may be tumbling, but sales of motorcycles and scooters in Canada are still rising, according to the Motorcycle and Moped Industry Council. Read more... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 17:10:02

Warriors debating penalty for G Ellis

Warriors debating penalty for G Ellis Chris Mullin hopes Monta Ellis learned something about maturity when a misadventure with a moped left the Golden State guard with a severely sprained ankle [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 15:30:22

Manish on Street-legal electric mod... Had seen a program on Earth mechanics converting a rusty old petrol mopeds into street... [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 22:42:08

Review: iHunt

iHunt v1.5 | Published by John Moffett | Via App Store | $0 ... . While I ride a moped, pickup trucks roar up and down the street with dead deer tied down [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 14:00:56

Greece - Part Two (Athens, Cape Sounion and Delphi)

See here for Part One.On with the rest of the journey ... and the noise and the crazy kamikaze mopeds that made Sri Lankan trishaw drivers look safe. Seriously [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 19:49:00

Ляпис Трубецкой

December 3, 2008 Огоньки Lyapis Trubetskoy - Ogon’ki (Lights) ... Gojko Mitic, Odra jeans, Zita and Gita, Kharlamov, Verhovina moped, Ural guitar – all this things [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 05:02:56

The Price Was Right For Taylor

Taylor goes on “The Price is Right” on his 19th birthday and wins a moped, two cars, a vacation and a load… [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 15:53:00

Racing Ignition Coil 90cc 110cc 125cc Moped,dirt Bike

US $9.90 End Date: Saturday Dec-06-2008 18:02:02 PST Buy It Now for only: US $9.90 Buy it now | Add to watch list More... [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 01:40:29

Stretch Limo-nette

Sometimes, you just have to take the picture.Labels: Stretch Moped [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 23:02:00

Fall From #1 Ranking Rankles Top Coach

NEWTON UPPER HILLS, Mass.  When Greg Flormitzer learned that this previously top-ranked town had fallen first to number 4, then to number 8 in the polls, he did what any other highly-competitive coach would have done.  “I went into my office to throw a tantrum,” he says with a grim face that shows he still isn’t over the disappointment [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 13:51:17

Excess Slippage

How ice was it this morning. I'll tell you - very. Actually, I can't speak for those of you outside central Leeds, ... people seemed to be similarly suffering, and a cyclist came of his bike on the loop road. My aural ... . This week's program included interviews with snow tourist Charlie English and the delightful Simon [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 18:19:21

976-Evil

“Demonic possession is good for boosting low self-esteem and settling scores with old enemies, but unfortunately, it’s bad for your skin.” With psychic, chat, and sex hotlines gaining popularity in the late 80’s, it wasn’t long before the “for entertainment purposes only” trend inspired a horror movie involving a 976 number [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 05:20:51

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - by F. Scott Fitzgerald source Chapter I As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anaesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one. So young Mr [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 06:27:57

A Very Careful Listener

Autism myths abound and Kev is collecting, and dissecting, them at this new site. One myth that especailly irks me is the notion that autistic kids are “in their own world” and “withdrawn into themselves” and, generally, “out of it.” My son Charlie is thoroughly engaged in and attuned to the goings-on of the world all around him [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 12:21:28

Collecting Data Points

I really should have done some homework before this trip to Taiwan. You see, my family (and I believe they represent a typical Taiwanese family) is all about collecting data points. Life in the States is so very different from life in Taiwan, so to make things more relatable, it really is all about comparing numbers, like median household income, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 15:35:47

Later on.

I wrote this awhile ago: I’ll continue on at the end. I’ve been meaning to write this week but things got away from me. To be honest I don’t even know what to write, i guess I’m feeling a little blocked. Or maybe I just need to stretch it out. Babble and maybe something will come out, if I can even babble I don’t know [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 06:37:15

A Fun Farewell

I've sat with my family for the past eight years in the same seats...so when I was being cursed at within two minutes of the start of the game, while sitting around friendlies, I was surprised. Some bone-headed IU fan was sitting two rows back from me telling me to sit down, which forced me to stay standing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 05:05:17

South Dakota Live Action Camp

As I noted, I spent the weekend in Sioux Falls South Dakota, working with South Dakota Healthy Families to fight Initiated Measure 11, which would ban virtually all abortions in the state. You probably remember that in 2006, anti-choicers got the legislature to pass a bill that would have banned abortion, even in cases of rape/incest, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 18:01:30

South Dakota Live Action Camp

As I noted, I spent the weekend in Sioux Falls South Dakota, working with South Dakota Healthy Families to fight Initiated Measure 11, which would ban virtually all abortions in the state. You probably remember that in 2006, anti-choicers got the legislature to pass a bill that would have banned abortion, even in cases of rape/incest, [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 18:01:51

In Depth: Escape to India's paradise lost (By Dave Zuckerman)

A penal colony in the time of the British Raj, India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands were once known as kalapani: “the black waters.” The bitter irony of that misnomer becomes clear to anyone who ventures off the mainland for the two-hour, 740-mile flight to this remote archipelago in the Bay of Bengal [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 15:17:06

at least no one died

we were dancing. Posey and i, on our first day to ourselves in more than a week, both of us slightly flu-impaired and grumpy but mercifully alone, the house ours, our day free from doctor’s appointments and toddlers and other civil company. she’d been kvetching in her swing, so i picked her up, [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 14:10:55

Sunday Times: Violet coup that’s all rather quiet

November 30th, 2008 Bangkok’s airports are occupied by protesters, but I’m not too bothered. I’m in Chiang Mai, 700km away, and it’s as relaxed as ever on Wednesday evening. Unperturbed by the day’s news, I go for dinner, slurping down a big bowl of hot and sour prawn soup and a Singha beer [more...]

Date: 2008-11-30 06:16:29

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