Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle. Show all posts

13 March 2008

PICTURE ESSAY from Geneva Auto Salon 2008


Hello ZENers,

What's a nice boy-on-a-bicycle, a Planetary-Defenseman, doing at an Auto Show?


The good news, is that ZEN Central has only gone three times to this annual event, in the last eleven years. And this is the first time since 2002 or so, 'promis-juré' (FR for 'cross my heart').


As I find out more about the vehicles that constitute a real step towards 'eco-transport' of our combined futures, still there's a remnant of savage testosterone latent in any man, so pictures you're about to see (or you can go to the official photo gallery?) do include the Ferrari's and others that make up the legacy from the dinosaur age-fueled era.


AND don't laugh! (bwaaaaah-ha-ha-ha) So many vehicles were displayed with a Bicycle rack on or nearby one of the manufacturers' walls, as if to display what we all SHOULD BE riding, instead of carrying on a car to GO riding elsewhere...


This post should be revised in a day or two... by next week at the latest (have to find the details in literature for these items!).


BTW: as a newly-elected member of the 'Geneva Institute for Water, Environment and Health' Executive Committee (www.giweh.ch), am looking forward to challenging the status quo in terms of water management and rights procuring, in a young organization with some super personalities in its midst. More on that another day, here are your


GVA Auto Salon photos




[These units are all one or two place vehicles, some electric, some motorized: NISSAN Pivo2 (BLUE,
middle right; Classic PLUS, bottom left]





















[This is a Mazda concept car, the Taiki]
















[Pagani ZONDA]

















[Caption text here]
































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© 2008

19 September 2007

Your choice....

What a production line today, at ZEN Central!

Hi ZENers,


While things are certainly heating up around the Floyd
Landis case, it may be small potatoes compared to this worldwide issue:

Oil prices...


While riding through the vinyards of eastern France, and western
Switzerland, I often wonder how oil and wine will fare, price-wise, in the next several decades...

WINE:

225 liter barrels contain enough product to fill 300 normal 0.75l bottles, so pick your favorite wine, worth 6 to 20 CHF, and multiplying (Oh! in the USA? Just change the currency :-) will find that that's from CHF 1800 to CHF 6000.


So something that pleases us, that warms our mealtimes, that rejoices in the diversity of its origins, and brings life to the concept of AOCs (Appellation d'origine contrôllée)


Is at least 22 times more expensive than that fluid with which we: burn, move with, lubricate, fertilize with...




OIL?


Well it just cracked $8
2 this week.

And in another year?

$ 100?

Or

$ 125?

Get ready for the Bicycle years...


;-)

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