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Empire motoring Journalist, Vlogger and general larakin. Pro food and lifting heavy things.

Vintage Tank Simulator

Back before all ya whizz bang video games, this is how tank drivers had to learn to drive before getting in the real thing

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How the Romans made Roads

This is a pretty interesting way to see roads made, Many of which are still in service. I wonder if Auckland Transport might take a lesson from this?

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How Stuff Works – Gas Pump

Ever wondered how your pump knows when to shut off without over flowing??

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Tips for a pillion passenger

My Friend Adele is a veteran pillion and has put together some tips for people that are going to be on the back of a bike Trust your rider You have no business getting on the back of a bike if you have no trust. You don’t want to be …

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History of the Motorcycle Bell

There are certain rules that go along with the bell that each motorcycle rider must understand, and if you are given one from a fellow rider take it as a sign that they truly care about you. We’ll get into more detail below. Names Of The Bell These bells are …

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The Last Ride

A cinematic short film of Mike Gilbert’s last ride around New Zealand’s southern island. After being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, Mike used motorcycling as a healing outlet and continued to do what he loved. Against Doctor’s orders, he decided to take his “Last Ride” and reflect on the things …

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Sodium-ion batteries.

sodium-ion technology could become dominant in the future as a cheaper, safer and greener alternative to lithium. UK-based Faradion are leading lights in the effort to take sodium-ion batteries to mass production, and this year were bought by Reliance New Energy Solar Ltd, themselves a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, India’s …

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C8 Corvette on Track! – An Open Road Extra

In this Open Road Extra We were very fortunate to be invited among a select few to have a go with the Corvette C8 on track! — and the Giga, which was awesome! Here’s that video! Z06 now revealed And check out the full review of the C8 from the …

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The NZ Department of Information

I stumbled across this channel on YouTube, young fellas having a go at some proper journalism I appreciate the shit out of that so I thought I’d share it with you guys and hopefully they keep it going. What we need in this country is some independent people going and …

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Webisode #88 – Hoodrat Sh*t

In this webisode, Jared and I head to Chrome, Chrome expression sessions is our answer to something like powercruise and or summer nats. It’s got a lot of cool shit going on and aside from the waiting around we had a really good time, Enjoy the video! View this post …

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