Some Automotive Fun...

Almost automotive.

Accoding to the notes on the FB thread:

RELATIVITY Special", if pedaled at 90 rpm, is designed to travel faster than the speed of light. This is proven by a description of the gear ratios on the sheets seen on the wall behind it. One revolution of the pedals sends the bike 6 times around the earth. (It is part of the art exhibition "Circle of Time" that Pat Chirapravati curated now on display at California State University, Sacramento).

One reply wonders about the need for reflectors and another points out that it's fortunate that it has a lock, because if someone stole it, you'd never capture them.

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Almost automotive.

Accoding to the notes on the FB thread:

RELATIVITY Special", if pedaled at 90 rpm, is designed to travel faster than the speed of light. This is proven by a description of the gear ratios on the sheets seen on the wall behind it. One revolution of the pedals sends the bike 6 times around the earth. (It is part of the art exhibition "Circle of Time" that Pat Chirapravati curated now on display at California State University, Sacramento).

One reply wonders about the need for reflectors and another points out that it's fortunate that it has a lock, because if someone stole it, you'd never capture them.

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The return to the United Kingdom of one of the last steam powered lorries built.

The circumstances that led to it's production were unique. In Argentina a large coal deposit had been found and it was determined that for it to be fully viable it needed to be rail connected. However it would cost too much to both develop the coal mine and build the railroad.

It was determined however that on a short term basis, steam powered lorries could be used to haul the coal to port economically enough to allow the sale of the coal mined to raise the funds necessary to build the railroad. So in what was the last large order of steam powered lorries 100 Sentinel 'S6' lorries were built and shipped out.

View: https://youtu.be/NyW6nVz611s?si=YksFXk_tq0Lze3-b
 
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Sentinel, the UK's premier maker of steam powered lorries produced their last units in 1949/50 for the Argentine mining order I wrote about in my last post. Those lorries were in fact the first they'd produced since the 1930s and as noted in the video posted earlier have some differences from the ones produced in the 1930s.

Here are examples of Sentinel's 1930s output.

The S4...

View: https://youtu.be/nj6HbWw4wSM?si=tSVwwGjbFirc_lTg


View: https://youtu.be/uLzInnCKanM?si=4QS8CCiOYdUFPLSm

The 1930s model of the S6...

View: https://youtu.be/OS-krJBIzB4?si=J4UXCbfXwe4AAuSn

View: https://youtu.be/skG-YYGwoFI?si=99QkFwZ27D8hZ9BW
 
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I must admit to having a love for the absurd.

How can it exist?

Well, once upon a time, a tax was implemented on car makers for the carbon emissions of heir range. It was meant to be fair, to allow certain marques to make cars that smoked like factories so long as overall they met a standard of efficiency. Since Aston Martin only made high powered, high-carbon cars, they needed a loophole and so they partnered with Toyota to badge-engineer a version of their own answer to Smart, the 'IQ,' which they named the Cygnet. To preserve the brand - supposedly - you could only buy a Cygnet if you already owned one of Aston's other products. At first, this seemed to make sense - width and parking restrictions made getting a proper Aston into inner London tricky but with a Cygnet, you could tootle about and still advertise that you owned a proper Aston.

Still, it flopped. Maybe that wasn't a surprise.

However, in an exercise in automotive parody, this was made. Hurrah!

Would you pay £500k for the world’s only V8-engined Aston Martin Cygnet? | Evo

The Vantage-engined one-off hatch was built by Aston Martin for a very persuasive customer back in 2018
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