Wrinkled Weasel's World (Free subscription) | 08/18/2009
For reasons that escape me, I got to wondering when was the first time I used a mobile phone. In 1993. This is important and momentous, don't underestimate how important this is - for it has changed everything. Arguably more than the death of JFK and the coming down of the Berlin Wall or the death of Princess Di or whatever it is you set your nostalgia clock by. I remember precisely where I was. I...
Plymothian Transit (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
"the customers on my bus and other bystanders on the roadside were very helpful ” TWO people were taken to hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a stationary bus. The front of the silver Citroen Xantia was left crumpled after it collided with the rear of the 40D Citybus at around 3.30pm Wednesday. Crews used hydraulic rescue equipment to take the roof of the Xantia...
Motorcycle Blog: The Sidecar (Free subscription) | 07/21/2009
Adjectives fail me. This almost seems like one of those sci-fi movies where an evil scientist tries to cross two deadly animals together to create the ultimate killing machine. So what are we looking at? It seems to be the deformed love child of a Citroën Xantia and a Kawasaki 1000 RX. This custom project, called “Snaefell“, [...]
CNET.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/13/2009
French motorcycle enthusiast Francois Knorreck has pimped his ride in the most unusual of fashions, fusing a motorbike to a car constructed from a Volkswagen GTI, Audi 80 and Citroen Xantia.
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 06/30/2009
10 years, 10,000 hours and $21,000 went in to converting this 1000cc Laverda 3CL into a custom sidecar. The result looks nothing like the original bike and like nothing else on the road. Built by François Knorreck, a French medical technician, over the course of a decade, he was inspired to create a sidecar because his old 3CL had right-hand chain drive, perfect for a straight chainline to...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
The sidecar always seemed like a precarious way to ride a motorcycle. So maybe it's a good thing that this ridiculous yet awe-indicting "Snaefell" fit a whole 2-seater car on the side of a bike. It's the product of 10 years and $20,000 worth of custom work, a combination of a Kawasaki 1000 RX the and a Citroën Xantia ...along with who knows what else (though Laverda is name-dropped,...
Friendship Cybet Net (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
I don’t know what possessed François Knorreck to create the Snaefell, a handcrafted motorcycle/sports car hybrid, but the results are like a terrible traffic accident gone right. The motorcycle part of the Snaefell is based on a Laverda, while the sidecar is a mashup of a Volkswagen GTI, an Audi 80 and a Citroen Xantia. Overall the creation cost about $21,000+ to build, but what’s...
Autoblog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
Filed under: Etc. , Citroen , Motorcycles Laverda-based sidecar motorcycle - Click above for high-res image gallery When most people think of sidecar motorcycles, visions of World War II-era BMWs likely spring to mind. For others, however, "sidecar" may be translated a bit more literally. Take François Knorreck of Italy. After some 10,000 hours of work over a ten-year period and at...
Travelblog (Free subscription) | 02/02/2009
Many a SummerWe drove out with grandpa and grandma on one of our only two excursions by car on the trip. Papy cannot drive well anymore so I ended up doing most of it at the wheel of his low mileage but beat up Citroen Xantia.Growing up in Texas we used to fly out here every summer to visit the grandparents for a month and spend time with mom's aunts uncles and cousins whiling the summer away in
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Okay my car recently got terminally damaged while I was out hunting, 10 year old Citroen Xantia took a branch to the steering and suspension causing €960 worth of damage to a €1500 car, so I decided to have the car scrapped. I was chatting to an American hunter buddy and told him what happened...
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