By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com Slug today’s post “a little late and who the heck cares?” The “a little late” portion refers to a post yesterday on the “Wheels” blog of “The New York Times” touting the fact that BMW plans to build a production version of its Lo-Rider concept …

By Bud Wilkinson of RIDE-CT.com The California Air Resource Board (CARB) took a chunk of change out of exhaust-maker Vance & Hines bank account in January. It fined the the company $500,000 for selling emissions-related parts not approved by the board. The notice noted that CARB applied a penalty of …

Besides being a 1909 graduate of Cornell University and an astute mechanical engineer, Norbert Schickel was also a pack rat. Even after his Connecticut-based business went out of business, the self-described “born mechanic” retained financial statements, contracts, photos, correspondence, schematics, promotional literature and even parts from his creations. “Grandpa never …