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Love Tron? Love the Lightcycles!

It was about a month ago that I saw a post online for a Batman motorcycle called the “Batpod” which was created, butnot street legal. While the image of riding in the night with my sense of vigilante justice firm in hand sounded like the beginning of a great night, the fact that it didn’t really do anything was a huge drawback. Nevertheless the geek in me rejoiced at the face that people were actually taking these concepts and making them a reality.

Today while surfing the web I found that someone had taken a concept from the movie Tron, and made it a reality. Below is a real life Lighcycle from the movie. The same company that created the “Batpod” is not creating Tron Lightcycles and the bonus is that these designs are street legal and ready to roll off the assembly line. The catch? It has a $35,000 price tag attached.

While many of us wait with heavy anticipation for the next chapter in the Tron series to be released this coming December, we can feast our eyes on this beauty which comes full stocked with “custom 22-inch hubless wheels, custom Hoosier tires, electric or gasoline motors, two-inch hardened steel frames, carbon fiber/fiberglass bodies, and neon hidden behind frosted plexiglass for the accent colors.”

The designers claim that every serious order, with partial payment placed ahead of time will get a YouTube link to keep track of their cycle’s development. The time it takes from contract to completion is stated to be 6-8 weeks.

Dig in your couches folks. These cycles were meant to ride. What do you think?

Cancer Stopping Motorcycle Shield

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I don’t mean to sound in sensitive or anything, but what doesn’t give you cancer these days? It seems staying at home in a sealed bubble is about the only thing – and even then I’m sure they’ll find something.

Now, it appears that motorcyclists are in the firing line because of a high amount of EMF coming from their hogs. For those of you who don’t know what an EMF is – it’s an Electro Magnetic Field. Just watch Oceans 13 and it’ll explain everything in a horrible British accent.

Randall Dale Chipkar has invented a kind of shield that is to be inserted into the seat of the rider’s motorcycle to ‘shield’ them from these nasty EMFs. In a book he wrote he researched motorcyclists who had caught cancers such as Prostate cancer and bone cancer.

“All of these riders had extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic field (EMF) radiation shooting up from their motorcycle seats into their lower torso”, Chipkar says. “Some readings were 100 times higher than what can be considered as acceptable exposure.”

From what I can see it’s just a piece of tin foil, but then it is marketed to give the rider ‘Peace of Mind’, and it may or may not stop EMFs.

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