No one was hurt, thankfully, and the Electric Blue Streamliner put in a beautiful qualifying run at 139mph. During its record attempt, however, one of the wheels caught in a groove and caused the motorcycle to flip after some heroic control attempts by the rider. The parachute deployed and the streamliner safely stopped.
I went to school at Utah Valley State College, which is basically in the same town as Brigham Young University (BYU). The two schools don’t have much of a rivalry, neither being in the same league size or budget-wise. UVSC is very small in comparison and started out as a trade school before becoming a 4-year university (much of that actually happened while I was attending).
At any rate, I don’t know anyone from the Streamliner team personally, but am glad that all went well in the end, despite the wreck. Hopefully they’ll get their bike back together and go back out to Bonneville to put it through another speed run. It’s definitely more than capable of 200+ miles per hour with its 150kW motor. It broke the 170mph mark before the crash.
Here’s video from the Electric Blue’s on-board camera:
Watch the shadows and you’ll see the driver extract from the bike safely.
I don’t remember TMBG getting a female singer. I thought it was just the two Johns. Maybe one of them is pulling a Michael Jackson or something. It’s from their official YouTube site, so there you go.
Cannabis. The word is full of nuances. It can be said as “pot,” “hemp,” “weed,” “ganja,” “that stuff that George Washington grew,” “Mary Jane,” “biocomposite body panels”…
Photo from Fast Company
The CannaCar, which designers officially call the Kestrel, is being developed in Canada (Canna-Canna-Canna-duh!)* by a company called Motive Industries. The plan is to take an electric car platform (good start), use hemp to make as many of the body panels and other non-metal parts as possible, and then put the car on the road.
Obviously, Up In Smoke is popular with the Canadians and some of them took it pretty seriously. I mean, really. A car made of cannabis? Too bad accidentally starting it on fire by mis-positioning the exhaust won’t get the cops high.
The vehicle’s body panels will be made of hemp-based bio-composites (basically biologically-derived fiberglass) and some of the interior bits will also come from hemp (cloth, some plastics, and whatnot).
The hemp composites themselves will come from fellow Canadian company Alberta Innovates Technology Futures (AITF) – wow, a sentence as a company name; that’s awesome. The raw hemp itself will come from hippies in Alberta who make rope, sandals, necklaces, and other flea market items on an industrial hemp farm in Vegreville.
Motive hasn’t given a date for production, but the CannaCar Kestrel will have prototype models for testing later this year.
Also seen on CannaCentral.
*This stuff just comes to me. I could do this all night. And I don’t even smoke. Imagine if I did toque up what kinds of things would be forthcoming… I know, mind blowing huh?
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