Tuesday, May 20, 2014

BMW K100 “Hornet” and K100RS by Paul Hutchison (19 Photos)

BMW K100 “Hornet” and K100RS by Paul Hutchison (19 Photos)

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BMW K100 “Hornet” and K100RS by Paul Hutchison (19 Photos)

Posted: 19 May 2014 09:08 PM PDT

The late 70s was not an easy time for poor old BMW Motorrad. With mounting pressure from the European Union regarding emissions, and their all-too-slow awakening to the fact that Japanese motorcycles were eating their lunch, the Germans were staring down the barrel or irrelevancy. Suddenly, water-cooled fours were all the rage; the 70s journo's penchant for top speed tests always left the boys from Bayerische with das ei on their faces. What they needed was a unique, powerful, water-cooled platform - and quick. In a classic piece of outside-the-square engineering, they began experimenting with a Peugeot car engine which they decided to lay down in a 'longitudinal four' configuration not seen since the pre-WWI-era. And the rest is history – a history which Paul Hutchison from Melbourne has successfully reinvented with his über K100RS.

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350 pre-WW1 model planes by Chris Albury to be auctioned off (19 HQ Photos)

Posted: 19 May 2014 09:03 PM PDT

A unique collection of 350 handcrafted model planes has been unveiled for the first time, revealing the bizarre pre-First World War designs that led the way during the first years of flight. The stunning aircraft were built over a 50-year period by an anonymous and 'reclusive' elderly man who has now decided to put them on sale through Gloucestershire auction house Dominic Winter. The collection features aircraft from 15 countries built on a scale of just 1:72, with the resulting models thought to include the vast almost all of the planes that became airborne before 1914. Source

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