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This red hot Hayabusa has been custom crafted by the folk at Voo Doo Industries with the 1968 Shelby as their inspiration. Not having the privilege of...
made popular Sep 24 2008
The Beast:
Psychochrome and RC Components came together to build the business class sportbike, which not only looks cool but also is also strong, efficient and sturdy....
made popular Sep 12 2008
This is a really amazing piece of work not so much because it has a fancy exo-skeleton but unlike many ‘concepts’, this one is a custom-crafted reality. It is one...
made popular Sep 4 2008
The Hayabusa is the symbol of power and speed and if you love big bikes and are anyone, anywhere above the age of 10 across the planet then you most likely have a...
made popular Sep 3 2008
We have such monotony in the big bike category of the concept bikes that every bike aims to be different and yet ends up looking exactly same as the couple of dozen...
made popular Aug 13 2008
I always thought that go-karting is a sport to lay back and have awesome fun with some speed and some spills. But then modern machines and engines have an ability to...
made popular May 1 2008
American Suzuki Motor Corporation, in conjunction with Lifted Research Group (L-R-G) has debuted a fully customized 2008 Hayabusa Sportbike at the Cycle World...
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Several asteroids frequently fly by our planet. And the Japanese spacecraft, Hayabusa has captured an unprecedented image of one of such asteroids. The asteroid is...
made popular Jun 3 2006
The attempt to bring back the first ever rock samples from an asteroid has failed severely. And the Japanese space probe will likely stay in space for three years...
made popular Dec 16 2005
After struggling through a series of failures, since its lift-of, Hayabusa’s two reaction wheels were lost, one on July 31st and another on October 3rd. But, its...
made popular Dec 10 2005
With all efforts and perseverance, the Japanese still failed to collect the first-ever samples from an asteroid, even after collecting it. The Japan Aerospace...
made popular Dec 8 2005
After a series of alternate successes and failures, the Hayabusa probe was claimed to have collected samples from the Itokawa asteroid. It was the first probe ever to...
made popular Nov 30 2005
At last the operation went without failure. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s space probe was successful. The Hayabusa spaceprobe has snatched samples from...
made popular Nov 29 2005
It was on a mission to bring back the world’s first rock samples from an asteroid. Yes, it was, as the Japanese space probe failed to touch down on Sunday on its...
made popular Nov 24 2005
It was on a mission to bring back the world’s first rock samples from an asteroid. Yes, it was, as the Japanese space probe failed to touch down on Sunday on its...
made popular Nov 21 2005
It was on 9 of this month, Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft successfully completed a practice approach to asteroid Itokawa. With all disappointment, Japan’s...
made popular Nov 16 2005
Hayabusa has performed well. Arriving at the target asteroid Itokawa on September 12th of this year it has made detailed scientific observation so far by varying its...
made popular Nov 3 2005
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