For Safer Motorcycling, How About Pants With Airbags?

Motorcycles just don’t have many of the same safety advantages as cars and trucks. So a company in Sweden is taking one of those safety features and adding it to a rider’s outfit: introducing airbag pants!

By |2024-12-06T06:35:43-05:00March 8, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

Bessie Stringfield Became Miami’s “Motorcycle Queen”

It's National Motorcycle Day, so it's a perfect day to tell the story of one of the most legendary riders of all time: Bessie Stringfield, whose cross country trips and daring won her the name "Motorcycle Queen of Miami."

By |2024-12-14T10:54:07-05:00July 8, 2022|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |

The Motorcycling Sisters Who Rode For The Right To Vote

It's the birthday of Augusta Van Buren, who joined her sister Adeline for a cross-country motorcycle trip in 1916 to win support for the suffragist movement. And what a trip it was.

A Guy In Michigan Drives A Banana Car

The busiest travel season of the year is getting underway, so here's a story about a vehicle right out of Richard Scarry’s Busytown: the Big Banana Car, which is a 15 foot long banana with four seats on the frame of a Ford F-150.

By |2024-12-08T08:06:18-05:00November 25, 2019|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: , , , |
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