My 1975 Honda CB550 Featured on Premier Motorcycle Blog, BikeEXIF

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BikeEXIF, a premier blog focused on “the coolest motorcycles”, wrote a post about my cafe’d CB550 today.

Based on it’s name, BikeEXIF focuses on mint bikes with high quality photos. Luckily, Andrew Maguire snapped some great shots of my CB just outside of downtown Grand Rapids last weekend.

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10 2011

Latest Projects – WE | MAKE | ART

Although it’s not my favorite or strongest skill in the toolbox, I still do enjoy making logos from time to time. Here is one I’m pretty proud of for an internal event at Byrne. It is an art competition we’re holding in conjunction with ArtPrize called WE MAKE ART. Click the image to see some of the works of art created by Byrne employees.

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10 2011

A Few Photos of the CB

First really good photos of my 1975 CB 550 since its Cafe transformation. Photos were taken by Andrew Maguire.

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10 2011

Moto Undone by JRuiter

Grand Rapids’-own, Joey Ruiter, is gaining some national attention in regards to his latest design project “Moto Undone”, specifically from Core77.

Very neat concept and like the brand expansion of Joey’s minmal approach to transportation. Last years project was the City Bike.

Powering this ‘beast’ is a 1000w electric hub motor, allowing this guy to travel 90 miles before recharging.

Photos by DVDP and Andrew Maguire.

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09 2011

New Ford Evos Concept

She’s beautiful. With my dad’s history at Ford, I’m always proud to see them staying relevant… and beyond.

From Uncrate Sometimes concept cars are simply production model previews. The Ford Evos Concept ($TBA) is not one of them. This four-door, four-seat fastback operates on a lithium-ion plug-in hybrid powertrain, and apart from the strikingly sexy body and gullwing-style front and rear doors makes technology the focus, with features like a heart-rate monitoring seat, allergy-free interior, and the ability to communicate with the cloud and other wireless devices such as your cell phone, letting it perform crazy-future tasks like automatically playing the same music that you were just streaming at your house, heat or cool the interior to an ideal temperature before you get in the car by predicting when you’re going to leave based on your calendar, automatically close the garage door and turn off lights as you pull out of the driveway, and tons of other Jetsons-ish tasks that are bound to make us even lazier.

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09 2011