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Medical Technician Builds Amazing Laverda Sidecar [Custom Cars]

June 30th, 2009 by FendyBt2

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10 years, 10,000 hours and $21,000 went in to converting this 1000cc Laverda 3CL into a custom sidecar. The result looks nothing like the original bike and like nothing else on the road.

Built by François Knorreck, a French medical technician, over the course of a decade, he was inspired to create a sidecar because his old 3CL had right-hand chain drive, perfect for a straight chainline to the rear axle. [Snaefell Project via Motorbiker.org]

The headlight comes from a Kawasaki RX1000.

Taillights come from a Citroën Xantia.

The interior is handmade and can accommodate two people in comfort.

The logo is a revers “F” in a “K”, François Knorreck’s initials.

Three cylinders, three exhausts. The other header is on the right side of the cylinder.

Brakes are from a VW Golf GTI, wheels from an Audi 80.

One exhaust canister for each cylinder.

Doors and roof panels are hand-formed carbon fiber.

It took 63 molds to make the polyester bodywork.

Both front and rear swingarms are single-sided.

How Cars Work (Paperback)

June 27th, 2009 by

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An Illustrated Guide to the 250 Most Important Car Parts and how they work.

From the Publisher
Author and illustrator Tom Newton is a school psychologist. How Cars Work was developed as a high interest mini-textbook for teens, but is also used by automotive service managers and mechanics to help customers understand repairs. This book can be found in adult literacy programs, high schools, and middle schools. How Cars Work makes it fun and easy to learn how cars work.

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G8 ‘deplores’ Iran poll violence

June 26th, 2009 by FendyBt2

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Iranian Foreign Minster Manouchehr Mottaki in Tehran (1 June 2009)

Unrest in Iran is expected to dominate discussions between foreign ministers as they prepare to meet for a G8 summit in Italy.

The future of Afghanistan had been the original focus of the summit in Trieste, but Iran’s post-election violence has shifted the attention.

As a neighbour of Afghanistan, Iran had been invited to attend the summit along with other bordering countries.

But Iran’s foreign minister has said he has "no plans to travel to Italy".

The BBC’s Duncan Kennedy in Rome says the summit would have offered a rare chance for G8 leaders to meet senior Iranian diplomats to discuss the country’s controversial nuclear programme.

But protests by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – who say he has unjustly claimed victory in the recent elections – have changed the agenda of the talks, says our correspondent.

Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in protest and at least 17 people have died in clashes with riot police.

Tehran says the protests are illegal and the election result is accurate – a stance which is expected to be condemned by some G8 members.

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini earlier met Iran’s charge d’affaires in Rome to discuss Foreign Minster Manouchehr Mottaki’s absence from the summit, the AFP news agency quoted a ministry statement as saying.

Rome said it hoped that "in the future Iran will be able to engage in a profitable way in the process of regional stabilisation in Afghanistan".</p

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