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1978 Motobecane 50V Mobylette built in France.
My next door neighbors husband bought this used moped back in 2003 and left it sit in his garage for the last 20 years untouched. He had a debilitating stroke about 15 years ago and fast forward to Fall 2022 his wife wanted to get rid of it and I offered to take it.
Initial inspection showed no spark but the engine spun freely, the empty gas tank interior was covered in surface rust, both tires were dry rotted and flat but I recognized the potential for a rebuild.
After a complete tear down including the 50cc 1 1/2 hp two stroke engine, I slowly cleaned all the pitting on the chrome parts, chemically removed the rust inside the gas tank, de-greased the frame and polished the original paint back to a high luster. Rebuilt the engine with new gaskets, bearings and rings. Added a new Dellorato carb and manifold. Replaced all the control cables and bought new tires and tubes (just had to go with the wide whites) any damaged fasteners were replaced with new.
After everything was fully reassembled, last week I fired it up and took my first ride. What a blast hitting a whopping 25mph ;-)
Vespino was a Mobylette-style moped produced by Moto Vespa from 1968 up to the early 2000’s, when the Madrid factory closed after Piaggio changed hands. As a transport alternative, it was cheap and reliable, with a low-maintenance, forced air-cooled 49 cc engine.
Olympus Trip 35, Fomapan 100, Kodak D-76 1+3.
The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS or the Skytrain is an elevated rapid transit system in Bangkok. The station Nana is located on Sukhumvit Road, the main venue for tourist looking for shopping and nightlife. Sukhumvit Road or Highway 3, named after the fifth chief of the Department of Highways, Phra Bisal Sukhumvit, begins two hundred meters before Nana Sukhumvit Road begins in Bangkok, as a continuation of Rama I Road and run until Cambodia border.
This is a lovely square in Paris inspired by the Shakespeare & Company bookstore.
Shakespeare In Love, Erotica Island (210, 25, 3201)
Don-Khône (Laos) - Nous sommes sur la route principale qui fait le tour de la petite île de Don-Khône. Inutile de dire que peu de véhicules circulent sur cet axe routier. Pour les déplacements le vélo, les mobylettes et le scooters sont rois.
J’avais garé mon scooter dans ce petit hameau pour voir s’il n’y avait pas quelques pêcheurs sur le Mékong, situé à gauche (hors-champ) de la photo. Seule une vieille femme y faisait sa toilette matinale. Je suis reparti sur la pointe des pieds pour respecter son intimité. Je suis resté quelques instants au bord de la route quand cette jeune fille est arrivée à vélo. Alors que j’attendais qu’elle parvienne à une distance raisonnable pour faire ma photo, la vielle dame qui quelques minutes auparavant se baignait dans les eaux du fleuve, s’est invitée discrètement dans ma composition.
On the main road of Don-Khône island
Don-Khône (Laos) - We are on the main road that goes around the small island of Don-Khône. Needless to say that few vehicles circulate on this road axis. For travel, bicycles, mopeds and scooters are kings.
I had stopped my scooter in this small hamlet to see if there were a few fishermen on the Mekong, located to the left (off-screen) of the photo. Only an old woman took her morning toilet there. I walked away on tiptoe to respect his privacy. I stood on the side of the road for a few moments when this young girl arrived on her bicycle. While I was waiting for her to reach a reasonable distance to take my photo, the old lady who a few minutes earlier was bathing in the waters of the river, discreetly invited herself into my composition
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Nakhon Pathom, located about 50km from Bangkok, is a city in central Thailand, the former capital of Nakhon Pathom Province.
One of the most important landmarks is the giant Phra Pathom Chedi standing at 127 meters (417 feet) tall, making it the tallest stupa in the world. READ MORE - EXIF - VIDEO- STREET VIEW
Kampong-Chhnang (Cambodge) - Je circulais à scooter pour me rendre au village flottant, lorsque la mousson s'est abattue sur Kampong-Chhnang. N'étant pas équipé pour la pluie, j'ai dû m'arrêter pour me mettre à l'abri sous une bâche.
En attendant que cesse l'averse, j'en ai profité pour faire quelques photos des courageux qui poursuivaient leur chemin.
Monsoon rain
Kampong-Chhnang (Cambodia) - I was riding a scooter to reach the floating village when the monsoon suddenly hit Kampong-Chhnang.
Not being equipped for the rain, I had to stop to take shelter under a tarpaulin. While waiting for the downpour to stop, I took the opportunity to take some pictures of the courageous people who continued on their way.
Le musée de l'automobile Henri Malartre est consacré à l'automobile et aux transports publics. Il est situé à Rochetaillée-sur-Saône, près de Lyon, sur le domaine du château.
Le village de Tcharé, au Togo, est traditionnellement un village de forgerons.
Ici, dans une maison construite en briques de terre sans fermetures, pour permettre l’entrée et la circulation de l’air, travaillent plusieurs hommes dans des conditions infernales au sens littéral du terme.
L'enclume est un gros caillou de granite enterré dont la surface est aplanie. Les soufflets de la forge, actionnés par un jeune garçon, sont en peau d’animal reliés à des tuyères en fer issues de récupération de vieilles voitures ou de mobylettes. Une pierre est utilisée comme marteau.
On y fabrique essentiellement des outils agricoles qui sont recherchés pour leur excellente qualité.
J'ai tremblé à chaque coup de marteau de pierre s'abattant sur le zãnré ou marteau de fer, tenu fermement par cinq doigts en danger, pour marteler la pièce métallique qui deviendra une pelle à l'issue de nombreux allers et retour entre enclume et foyer.
Ces forges traditionnelles disparaissent progressivement et côtoient désormais des ateliers semi-modernes dont le four fonctionne à l'électricité.
The village of Tcharé, in Togo, is traditionally a village of blacksmiths.
Here, in a house built of mud bricks without openings to allow air to enter and circulate, several men work in truly hellish conditions.
The anvil is a large granite boulder buried in the ground, its surface flattened. The forge's bellows are made of animal hide connected to iron tuyeres salvaged from old cars or mopeds. A stone is used as a hammer.
They primarily make agricultural tools, which are sought after for their excellent quality.
I trembled with each blow of the stone hammer as it struck the zãnré, or iron hammer, held by five precarious fingers, hammering the piece of metal that, after numerous trips back and forth between the anvil and the hearth, would become a shovel. These traditional forges are gradually disappearing and now stand alongside semi-modern workshops whose furnaces run on electricity.
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Khon Kaen is one of the four major cities of Isan, Thailand, also known as the “big four of Isan”, the others being Udon Thani, Nakhon Ratchasima, and... READ MORE - EXIF DATA - STREET VIEW - VIDEO
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Haeundae Beach is an urban beach in Busan, South Korea, located in the eponymous Haeundae District. The beach first opened in 1965, and was the largest beach in the country at the time. The sandy portion of the beach is 1.46 kilometres (0.91 mi) long and 40 m (130 ft) wide.
Comment mesurer le progrès? Plus grand est-il toujours meilleur et plus petit toujours plus puissant? L'intervention humaine est-elle toujours nécessaire ou évoluons-nous de toute façon? Et le progrès est-il toujours bénéfique? Tel est le questionnement posé dans Pinpointing Progress, l'œuvre de Maarten Vanden Eynde. Dans cette sculpture, il attache plusieurs réalisations modernes entre elles. À une époque, les bus, les mobylettes, les vélos et les radios étaient considérés comme les technologies les plus avancées. Au XXe siècle, ces inventions ont été exportées avec fierté tant par l'Occident que l'URSS. C'était même une course pour être le plus à la pointe, car cela confirmerait la supériorité d'une idéologie. Cette sculpture a initialement été réalisée pour la Biennale de Riga en 2018, où l'on ne produit désormais plus que l'élément supérieur de la brochette, le plus petit, à savoir le transistor. La tour de Maarten Vanden Eynde est ainsi une représentation visuelle de la vitesse de l'évolution.
La construction de Pinpointing Progress renvoie aux musiciens de Brême, le conte des frères Grimm, dans lequel quatre animaux âgés et maltraités unissent leurs forces pour fuir leurs maîtres ingrats. Cette histoire témoigne des mauvaises conditions de travail et des rudes pratiques qui montrent souvent le revers de la médaille quand on parle de progrès. Pensez par exemple aux constructions que Léopold II a fait réaliser le long de la côte belge, telles que le port de Zeebruges, la route du littoral et la gare d'Ostende. Ce roi, qui a commis des atrocités figurant parmi les pires de l'Histoire, a fait de la côte une région mondaine. Or il l'a fait avec l'argent qu'il a gagné sur le dos du peuple congolais. Aujourd'hui, quand on pense au progrès technologique, on pense aux développements des géants du numérique tels que Google ou Apple, qui incitent encore à l'esclavage des enfants dans leur quête de minerais au Congo. La violation des droits de l'homme semble être indissolublement liée à la modernisation. Pinpointing Progressdresse prudemment le bilan et ouvre les yeux sur le fait que la Tour du progrès s'effondrera elle aussi peut-être un jour.
How to measure progress? Is bigger always better and smaller always more powerful? Is human intervention still necessary or are we evolving anyway? And is progress always beneficial? Such is the questioning posed in Pinpointing Progress, the work of Maarten Vanden Eynde. In this sculpture, he ties several modern creations together. At one time, buses, mopeds, bicycles and radios were considered the most advanced technologies. In the twentieth century, these inventions were exported with pride both by the West and the USSR. It was even a race to be the most advanced, because that would confirm the superiority of an ideology. This sculpture was originally made for the Riga Biennale in 2018, where only the upper part of the skewer, the smallest, is now produced, namely the transistor. Maarten Vanden Eynde's tower is thus a visual representation of the speed of evolution.
The construction of Pinpointing Progress returns to the musicians of Bremen, the tale of the Brothers Grimm, in which four aged and abused animals join forces to flee their ungrateful masters. This story is a testament to the poor working conditions and harsh practices that often show the other side of the coin when it comes to progress. Think, for example, of the constructions that Leopold II had built along the Belgian coast, such as the port of Zeebrugge, the coastal road and the Ostend train station. This king, who committed some of the worst atrocities in history, made the coast a worldly region. But he did it with the money he earned on the backs of the Congolese people. Today, when we think of technological progress, we think of the developments of digital giants such as Google or Apple, which still encourage the slavery of children in their quest for minerals in the Congo. The violation of human rights seems to be inextricably linked with modernization. Pinpointing Progress takes a careful stock and opens our eyes to the fact that the Tower of Progress may also collapse one day.