I am proud to introduce a new section on derestricted for my bro Luke in which he has uploaded some his photos of Snowboarding in whistler and elsewhere, skating, Scenic shots, biking and more.. Check them out here: http://blog.derestricted.com/lukephillips/

He will keep it updated as he gets new shots during his season in St. Anton this year.

It’s warm and sunny right now in Austria, the snow at the top of the mountains has all but gone again, but it is due to get cold and rainy/snowy this week, so we took advantage of the weather and went for a session at the park next door for lunch.
On a side note, I love this westbeach hoody I got. Unlike my other hoodies it is real long which is much better suited for skating and boarding as it doesnt ride up.

Went to a party in Munich this weekend at MP’s house, where he had a couple of issues of this new magazine called Sideburn.  Has a nice small format with some brilliant photos of dirt track bikes and racing.

Serious talk show and serious subject no doubt…but Dizzee Rascal is brilliant on this:

“Can I ask you Mr Rascal….”

The new KTM Superduke R and the new RC8 R were both unveiled at the Milan show this week, I found some nice shots on our server from a photo shoot in Spain and got approval to put them up. They also show the helmet I designed.

I am happy Obama won, at least now the future has a positive role model for people to look up to. I dont believe for a minute he can do all he says he can, but at least hopefully he will start doing some of it.

The Olduvai theory states that industrial civilization (as defined by per capita energy consumption) will have a lifetime of less than or equal to 100 years (1930-2030). The decline in oil, gas and coal production coupled with population growth paints a bleak picture of the per capita energy availability to Mankind. WIth the US debt currently at 10.5 trillion dollars and rising, where is all the money going to come from to pay for developing alternatives?

If Obama can really pull some rabbits out of his hat and save the planet from resource depletion, economic collapse, the 20 million excess houses on the market in America, rising unemployment, the Collapse of the auto industry, the pension crisis and the huge amount of personal and public debt, then at least there are some wicked concept designers out to work on some new products:

LA Auto Show: Design Challenge Motorsports 2025

So the genie is out of the bottle, KTM has made a public announcement about their development of an Electric enduro bike! I got to ride it a month ago and give some test feedback to the team and was seriously, seriously impressed. It feels as quick as a 125sx but is also lighter so you can really throw it around. I will probably get in trouble if I show the photos I have, so I have just posted the ones off dirt rider. This bike with supermoto tyres would be so perfect to get to work and back on. I want one.

Thanks to the intelligent control technology and the most up-to-date energy management, the 90 kg light prototype zero emission motorcycle has a performance that rivals a light Enduro with a combustion engine. Apart from the very low weight, it is the engine’s significantly spontaneous development of torque that is responsible for the distinct dynamic of the zero emission motorcycle.

Project Better Place founder Shai Agassi has announced that Australia will become the third country, following Denmark and Israel, to implement the group’s vision of electric vehicles powered by renewable energy, and France could also soon follow.

Better Place and Macquarie Capital Group will raise $1 billion to build a network of 250,000 charging stations and battery exchange stations in key locations along the east coast by 2012. The network will be powered by wind turbines owned by AGL Energy.

Agassi has been promoting the plan as a way to reduce our dependence on oil (the starting premise for the project was “how do you run an entire country without oil”) while creating jobs and boosting the local economy (see this interview on the Today Show for his explanation). Operating in Australia will also help the group prove it can work in large countries as well as the much smaller geographical areas covered in the first 2 rollouts. Agassi also noted that the Federal Government’s $500 million Green Car Innovation Fund played a part in encouraging them to set up in Australia.

Just got back from a trip to CUBE BIBERWIER-LERMOOS with a load of people from work.