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Bike Tire Tent: Compact Travel Shelter Wraps Inside Wheels

29 Jan

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tire bike travel tent

For the cycling nomad, this design uses space you never knew you had, and helps free up room in front-of-handlebar baskets or on above-back-tire racks for other uses in the process.

tire deployed camping closeup

Designed by Chung-Jung Wu, Pei-Chun Chen & Li-Fu Chen, a specially-reinforced tire creates a void into which a biker can clip their travel tent for extended rides.

tire shelter wheel design

The easy-to-access clasps make it simpler and speedier to deploy the tent when you reach your temporary destination, rather than unwrapping it from a pack or unstrapping it from a fender platform.

tire tent fully open

Of even greater value to long-distance travelers: precious cargo space on your back and elsewhere on your bicycle is freed up for clothes and other essential gear.

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Accessory review: Tamrac 5592 Big Wheels SpeedRoller 2X

01 Jun

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The Tamrac 5592 Big Wheels SpeedRoller 2X is a serious camera bag, featuring an industrial strength telescoping handle, oversized wheels fortified with ball bearings, and of course loads of space for camera equipment plus a 17-inch laptop. Despite an impressive capacity the SpeedRoller 2X is small enough to carry on to airplanes. It’s not cheap though, at a street price of around $ 400. Do you get what you pay for? Read our review to find out. 

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Odd-Wheel Wonders: 11 Novel Vehicles with 1 or 3 Wheels

07 May

[ By Delana in Technology & Vehicles & Mods. ]

odd wheeled vehicles

We’ve gotten accustomed to the idea of vehicles having two or four wheels. However, not all vehicle designers are so restrained in their ideas. All of these conveyances are unique because of their lack of the conventional wheel count, making do (and even making a scene) with just one or three.

The Leanster Motorcycle

leanster motorcycle

What’s the easiest way to make a motorcycle safer? Add one more wheel, of course. The Leanster from Brudeli Tech is a strange-looking bike that lets users make incredibly tight turns without the danger of falling over. The Leanster is somewhere between a motorcycle and a four-wheeled ATV, but somehow managers to look cooler than both.

UX-3 Commuter Unicycle

ux-3 unicycle

It wasn’t long ago that unicycles were reserved for the likes of circus performers. But this Segway-like motorized unicycle from Honda, called the UX-3, brings the unicycle firmly into the consumer market. It’s driven like a Segway, so all you have to do is sit down and lean slightly to tell it which way to go. It might take a little while to figure out how to ride the UX-3 without tipping over (or feeling like you’re about to), but once you master the trick you’ll never want to walk anywhere again.

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Hotel on Wheels: Portable Room Travels the World With You

30 Mar

[ By Delana in Boutique & Art Hotels & Global. ]

hotello portable hotel room

Cities all around the world have vast, empty spaces just going to waste – abandoned buildings, empty lots, decommissioned military barracks – but the Hotello wants to put those spaces to use. The Hotello is a tiny, portable hotel room that can go anywhere and provide a comfortable sleeping space no matter where you are.

hotel room on wheels

Designed by Antonio Scarponi and Robert de Luca for the Swiss firm daskonzept, the Hotello starts out as a rather nondescript wheeled trunk. It does the seemingly impossible by packing an entire 4 square meters room into a surprisingly small area – bed, desk, wardrobe and all.

hotello portable hotel room

Thanks to its wheels, the Hotello can be taken almost anywhere. You can set up the room in a matter of minutes by folding out the bed and setting up the metal structure that supports the sound absorbent privacy curtain. A small work space and stool let you catch up on work before bedtime, and the trunk itself acts as a storage area for clothing or other objects.

hotello

Several Hotellos could be placed together to create unique configurations if desired, but a single unit is perfect for the business traveler who simply needs a place to lie down for several hours before work starts again in the morning. Since the portable hotel room doesn’t come with a bathroom, though, it would be wise to plunk the Hotello down in a place near some public facilities.

hotel room in a trunk

Looking beyond the most obvious uses of the Hotello, though, it is clear that a solution like this would be ideal for housing victims of natural disaster. Similar, though hopefully more modest and cost-effective, solutions could be used to house homeless populations in otherwise-abandoned buildings. But of course, part of the project’s appeal is the idea that you can travel around the world with nothing  but a suitcase and a red trunk on wheels and always have a comfortable place to sleep at night.

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“The Wheels On The Bus” Song with The GiggleBellies – Award winning

08 Aug

www.GiggleBellies.com to buy the award winning DVD! A children’s favorite! This award-winning animation “The Wheels on the Bus” is from the DVD “The GiggleBellies Musical Adventures”. Visit our fun website for more information and to download free coloring pages, wallpapers, and fully illustrated lyric sheets! To purchase the mp3 song www.cdbaby.com itunes.apple.com Our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com For more information about “The GiggleBellies Musical Adventures” DVD, Please visit: www.TheGiggleBellies.com Lyrics The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round The wheels on the bus go round and round, And round and round and round All through the town! The doors on the bus they open and close, open and close, open and close The doors on the bus they open and close, And close and open and close All through the town! The money on the bus goes, clink, clank, clink clink, clank, clink, clink, clank, clink The money on the bus goes, clink, clank, clink clank – clink — clank — clink — clank – clink All through the town! The driver on the bus says “Move on back’, “Move on back”, “Move on back” The Driver on the bus says “Move on back”, And don’t forget to put your seatbelts on. All through the town! The monkeys on the bus put their seatbelts on, seatbelts on, their seatbelts on The monkeys on the bus put their seatbelts on And they enjoy the ride All through the town! The motor on the bus goes, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom …

 
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“The Wheels On The Bus” Song with The GiggleBellies – Award winning

04 Aug

www.GiggleBellies.com to buy the award winning DVD! A children’s favorite! This award-winning animation “The Wheels on the Bus” is from the DVD “The GiggleBellies Musical Adventures”. Visit our fun website for more information and to download free coloring pages, wallpapers, and fully illustrated lyric sheets! To purchase the mp3 song www.cdbaby.com itunes.apple.com Our Facebook Page: www.facebook.com For more information about “The GiggleBellies Musical Adventures” DVD, Please visit: www.TheGiggleBellies.com Lyrics The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round The wheels on the bus go round and round, And round and round and round All through the town! The doors on the bus they open and close, open and close, open and close The doors on the bus they open and close, And close and open and close All through the town! The money on the bus goes, clink, clank, clink clink, clank, clink, clink, clank, clink The money on the bus goes, clink, clank, clink clank – clink — clank — clink — clank – clink All through the town! The driver on the bus says “Move on back’, “Move on back”, “Move on back” The Driver on the bus says “Move on back”, And don’t forget to put your seatbelts on. All through the town! The monkeys on the bus put their seatbelts on, seatbelts on, their seatbelts on The monkeys on the bus put their seatbelts on And they enjoy the ride All through the town! The motor on the bus goes, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom …

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