Mission Motors Set Landspeed Record with Electric Motorcycle

Electric motorcycles are coming our way, and one of the hottest bikes in the segment is the high-performance, high-dollar Mission One. The team just set a land speed record of 150.059 miles per hour at Bonneville.

Keep an eye on this bike. The people putting the Mission One together are an incredibly talented group. Led by former Tesla principal Ed West, the team includes well-placed talent from the motorcycle as well as the software industry. If they pull off what they have in mind, the Mission One is going to be the sexist, most tunable high-performance toy in your garage.



Read more detail about their record-setting pass here.

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Time to Motorcycle Dream Garage Publication: 15 days, 11 hours, 24 minutes.

Free Motorcycle

My inbox has been brimming with press releases lately. Everyone from Danica Patrick's publicist to whoever promotes National Alpaca Farm Days seems to think e-mail blasts to journos are some kind of magical lifeline to keep their businesses afloat.

Most of the stuff I receive goes into the trash, but this one caught my eye as relevant to dream garage readers. First, Shell's contest includes the possibility that you could win a motorcycle or free gas. Plus Rick, the guy profiled in the release, is just too much. I can see cleaning motorcycle parts in Coke or marinating yourself in Leinenkugel's while working on your bike, but scrubbing a Benz with Perrier? Great that he loves his machinery, but I think he's missing the point. Garages are made to get back to your cave man roots. You can go out there and be your disgusting, overindulging, tool-wielding, beer-swilling, autocratic self. I'd like to take Rick out for a beer and lay it all out for him, you know? Dude, loosen up. Drive more, clean less, and Neanderthal it up a bit. Anyway, here's the release . . . enjoy.

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Time to Motorcycle Dream Garage Publication: 16 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes.

Barn Garage Hangout

This converted barn is an interesting way to build a man cave (tho I'd hate to pay that heating bill). An old barn would make a perfect dream garage! Note that it was featured in fellow Austinite Sam Martin's book, Manspace.

ManSpace: A Primal Guide to Marking Your Territory

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Time to Motorcycle Dream Garage Publication: 23 days, 9 hours, 12 minutes.