A new bike from PUMA—yes, the shoe folk, but they do bikes now, too—glows in the dark. The "Glow Rider" appears to use glow-in-the-dark paint as opposed to some sort of EL rig-up and includes headlights and taillights, as well.

I wonder how brightly it glows. Any extra visibility would be welcome for a city bike.

I'M POSTING ANYTHING THAT GLOWS [KayneUniversity.com/blog]

A French firm is selling unlicensed recreations of the 1927 Baby Bugatti. Their version is billed as a pedal car, unlike the battery-powered original, yet they say "battery-powered electric engine and wiring still have to be obtained by the prospective buyer." Perhaps there is a simple way to attach a motor to the drive train.

Or a not simple way! If you can swing €6,350 for a fancy go-kart, you can probably afford to hire a mechanic to rig the whole thing together.

Catalog Page [Singulier.com via Luxury Launches via Gadget Lab]

Image: Gizmag.com

Yamaha Australia has built two 15-meter long fish tank trailers called the "SupaTanks" to be wheeled around to dealerships and boat shows. Each SupaTank will include 20 live fish. Can fish get car sickness?

The SupaTank is quite unique because it demonstrates all the underwater action when a fish is caught. The Yamaha SupaTank show is designed to both educate families on how to safely and successfully learn to fish along with displaying the fascinating underwater feeding behaviours of fish. In full view of wide-eyed spectators, the fish can be seen stalking and attacking the lures cast by participants from the elevated ‘half-tinny’ casting platform complete with Yamaha four stroke outboard motor.

Yamaha builds a giant fishtank on wheels [Gizmag]

This Japanese commercial works for me on many levels. First, as I was born in '78, I'm about to turn 30, and the handsome white-haired gentleman in the video (clearly Golgo 13's boss) gives me hope that I may remain dapper after I turn into an old man next month. Second, I love the Celica Supra and its far-forward mirrors. (Later, when Toyota split the line, they ended up producing one of my favorite Japanese supercars in the twin-turbo Supra.)

Lastly, I love that shooting the commercial in the unfinished tile bathroom deep in a basement makes it look like they're in the futuristic guest spa of the Ethereal Plane Mariott.

Here's what I can't figure out, though: What gets thrown in the seat at the end? Is it the woman's hose or the spy's tie?

[via TV in Japan]

F15 Jet Fighter Honda Motorcycle - The funniest videos clips are here

This Honda Goldwing has been modified to look and sound like a jet fighter yet is still street legal. The interview with the man who made it makes my skin crawl, trumpeting the indomitable spirit of the invention as a tribute to civic duty or some horseshit, but it's a pretty fantastic piece of garage engineering, so I should just shut my fat yap and enjoy it.

(Thanks, Dennis!)

Joe Kelly, Jr., a car collecting nut, has an awesome display room in his basement, complete with a slot car track that lowers from the ceiling.

ikea hacks make joe's fabulous car room a reality [Ikea Hacker]

After that last post, I don't want to think that I'm unwilling to wallow in needless consumption, middle phallus upturned to a sternly disapproving Mother Nature. When this world is nothing but dust I will ride across the glowing landscape on this Hello Kitty sportbike.

(I love that there is a Roman rune for "male" on the side, just in case you might mistake the owner for a female.)

Hello Kitty Motorcycle Honda NSR [KittyHell.com]

Here's the updated version of the TankChair, a mobile relaxation assault vehicle, with a lower center of gravity and more torque. While my first insipid instinct is to mock anyone who might actually need one of these due to my constant baseline fantasy that everyone in the world is fat, the impetus behind the TankChair is really sweet: a man built it for his outdoors-loving wife, whose legs were disabled in an accident.

You can buy a TankChair for $15,600.

Product Page [Tankchair.com via Crave.CNET.com]

The "Arantix" mountain bike from Delta 7 Sports uses an open lattice tube design made from carbon fiber and kevlar. They call the technique "IsoTruss."

From the press release:

Each Arantix Mountain Bike frame takes approximately 300 hours to build, as Delta 7 Sports workers weave single carbon fiber strands to create the open lattice IsoTruss structure of each frame tube. Each bundle of carbon fiber strands are wrapped with Kevlar and then baked at 255 degrees Fahrenheit for four hours. The ends of the baked tubes are then machined before being joined with molded carbon fiber lugs to make a complete frame.

Delta 7 Sports plans on shipping just 200 Arantix bikes in 2008 with a price of $12,000 fully kitted out or $7,000 for the frame alone.

Product Page [Delta7Sports.com via Oh Gizmo via Popular Science]

Remember that neato scooter built from old appliances? "Nemomatic" has it completed and has put up a whole series of pictures and details on Instructables. And unlike my picture before, these are in color!

"Quicksilver" Retro-Future Scooter from appliances and scrap metal [Instructables] (Thanks, Dan!)

From the description on the YouTube page: "The Hungarians replaced the turret from an old Russian tank with 2 turbines from a Mig 21. Water is injected in the exhaust, they throttle up and distinguish the fire."

(Thanks, Muh'lich!)

The "RoboScooter" isn't really robotic at all, but ignoring the nomenclature it's still got verve. Designed at MIT's Media Lab in partnership with SYM/Sanyang Motors, the prototype electric scooter is made from just 150 discrete parts, making maintenance and upkeep simple. It's supposed to be charged by hanging it on a special rack, but if it ever made it to production I'd gladly trade the charging rack for a retractable power cord.

Something like this would be so wonderful for New York—large enough to make inter-borough travel convenient, but still small enough to be stashed in a closet as opposed to the street.

Project Page [Cities.Media.MIT.edu via Oh Gizmo via Born Rich]

Previously: Yamaha's Folding Electric "Bobby" Scooter [BBG]
Di Blasi R7E Folding Motorbike [BBG]