A friend of mine recently forwarded the link for this slide show to me.  It is REALLY cool.  I understand the work that went into this, although I can honestly say I have never been able to create anything on this level.

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Wow…  the last part of this series…  and I’m already thinking of new ones to do…

But let’s wrap this one up, first!

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I promise… I will write about cars again, soon…  But for now, the 94th car is a bike!

V-Rod

And if anyone wants to hand me a Night Rod… I’m not going to complain.  I love the flat black version of the bike… I’m not a big lover of chrome.

Sporting power from 115bhp to 125 bhp, the sport/cruiser Harley has remained controversial.  Some purists hate it because it doesn’t look like other Harleys.  Others love the design.  Personally, I love the design… AND I love the classic styling of other Harley Davidsons.

The Revolution engine was designed with Porsche, and features fuel injection, overhead cams and liquid cooling… all firsts for H-D.  Originally it was 1130cc, now at 1250cc (69 and 76 cu in.).  There is also a VRXSE 1300cc (79cu in) that puts out 165bhp.

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Now with Lumbar Support

I think that all of us that putter around the garage, and many that don’t, have “fixed” something in order to get by for a little while… maybe a month or a week or a day… or fifteen minutes.  Necessity is the Mother of Invention…

But, some people go a little too far…

We can admire their ingenuity… and remind ourselves to not take the shortcut…

Click on the pic to visit the site…

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I am lumping together the widely divergent here…  They might be powered by supercharged a big-block with nitrous, or they might be powered by a diesel from a Jetta…

I have skirted around rock buggies through many parts of the 101 Cars series… but this is about rock buggies…

There are three different purposes for them.  The first is competition bugggies, then rock racers and the third is trail riding…

Comp buggies tend to be light and not overly powerful.  They don’t need to be powerful if they are light enough.  The suspensions aren’t as radically different as they used to be, but they are amazingly flexible.

The next type of buggy the rock racer…  These are POWERFUL.  And fast… these aren’t creepy crawlers, but rather flexi-flyers.

Recreational rigs, or trail riders are not as powerful as the rock racers, but generally more powerful than the comp buggy.  Suspensions might even be more exotic, but the goal is comfort and ability… and weight isn’t as much of a concern for the recreational riders.

What they all have in common is amazing performance off-road.  They can run obstacles that were previously considered unpassable… and in some cases weren’t even thought of as obstacles… they seem to defy gravity itself.

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