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Monday, March 05, 2012

Wheel Ride!

Nice to start the week with such an inspirational photo.
Thanks to/via The Church of...


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9 comments:

  1. A. RiabovitchevMonday, March 05, 2012

    Awesome image!I like your choice of references a lot!:O)

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  2. Florian SatzingerMonday, March 05, 2012

    Hey Andrei! Hope everything is fine, your latest posts were awesome, man!

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  3. GOGOPEDROMonday, March 05, 2012

    Really awesome photo reference here... Love the Monocycle... I was wondering if you knew when the photo was taken??

    P

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  4. Florian SatzingerMonday, March 05, 2012

    1933! :)

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  5. UnknownMonday, March 05, 2012

    oh my! so many ideas comes to mind! Ü

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  6. Tom GilesTuesday, March 06, 2012

    There are a couple of these in the new Men in Black III trailer.

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  7. Florian SatzingerTuesday, March 06, 2012

    Isabelle, absolutely! :)

    Tom! Cheers for the tip!

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  8. Sylvain DecauxTuesday, March 06, 2012

    Woah I thought this was like a steampunk cosplay kind of thing, but this is a real machine from 1933 ?!? Quite surprising !!

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  9. LThursday, March 15, 2012

    Thats awesome! I wonder how fast you could go!

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