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How do you simultaneously drive media focus to your 15th-place MotoGP team while raising sponsorship dough? One word: sex.
That’s the solution of Italy’s LCR Honda race team. The team – started by 125 racer Lucio Cecchinello in 1996 – started racing in the affordable (by Grand Prix standards) 125 class, but since 2008 has focused all its efforts on the premiere 800cc MotoGP class. That means big money, but an innovative “Event Title Sponsor” format that allows companies to put their name on individual rounds of the MotoGP may help make ends meet. Playboy’s Italian publication will … Details
In a law enforcement first, Ohio cops this month arrested a man for drunk driving on a motorized bar stool. That’s right, a motorized bar stool, which can be seen below in a police evidence photo. According to cops, Kile Wygle, 28, crashed his bar stool near his Newark home earlier this month and called 911 due to his injuries. When an officer arrived and asked Wygle what happened, he answered, “I wrecked my bar stool.” According to a Newark Police Division report, a copy of which you’ll find here, Wygle’s homemade ride is powered by a Briggs & Stratton lawnmower engine. Wygle noted that the bar stool could hit nearly 40 miles per hour…Â 
In a world in which we have come to expect our gadgets to be small and compact yet deliver the benefits of the full size model, Pacific Cycles’ IF Mode fold-up bike is unlikely to disappoint. The IF MODE combines a number of features to optimize fast folding into a compact footprint including a single sided fork and rear stay (on opposite sides of the frame), folding handlebars, integrated stem and front fork and even folding pedals. The clever twist – literally – is the patented, single-action, automatic folding mechanism that requires no tools or removal of parts and automatically guides the wheels together. Once folded, MODE becomes a wheelable package complete with in-built handle so that you don’t have a dead weight to lug around when you swap pedalling for perambulation.