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Yesterday I received a link to Hannes Langeder's 1:1 Scale Ferdinand GT3 RS human powered
bicycle art project. I quickly browsed through the forum post that was sent and laughed out loud at the absurdity and the amount of work that went into a 1:1 PVC + foil over bicycle frame GT3 RS. I had “lol’d” and wanted other people to also, so I did what I usually do: I shared the link on Solo2 as quickly as I could. I wanted to drum up some chatter!
Unfortunately, the pictures were posted on what I would later find out to be a forum connected to an adult pornography blog in Spanish. All the Spanish and user signatures I usually gloss over when scrolling through posts quickly came back to bite me and they bit me hard: each signature picture progressively grew more lewd and gross as you scrolled down. My last name might be Spanish, but I obviously cannot read any.

Fail.

Theo notified me that this was NSFW, so I edited the post and make quick jokes at Theo about how the surrounding content (but not the content itself) was NFSW.

I left to get some Thai food with a friend and work on his Civic.
While I was away, I was contacted by the e-board and given a very thorough ass whupping.

I had good intentions. I wanted to share a funny link quickly & I wanted to drum up some conversation on one of my favorite forums.

But,

I also had plenty of failure: In my haste to share: I didn’t check the full content of the thread. I thought that NSFW in the title would be sufficient to protect CSCC members. And lastly, I failed to check what kind of forum the post was hosted on. The post was hosted on the Spanish pornography forum Alrincon with a thread titled: Ver tema - Briconsejo del día

If you are still curious about the original post that caused this and want to see the content as I had seen it, contact me directly, but the link will NOT be posted on Solo2 Forums.

KJ let me know that the build and even a VIDEO of the thread spread earlier this year.
“Google is your friend,” KJ told me.

While the post was fresh on the website I was given, it’s not fresh on the internet. The story was broken in June 2010.

I made a mistake and I am sorry.

I would still like to share the old news I found, so I have taken KJ’s advice and made friends with google.

I found some CLEAN links to share with the CSCC:

If you are a 1-link type of person and only want to see the build photos in a blog post format, click here:
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/great ... ble_ev.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you want a small write-up and a link to the hilarious video KJ was talking about, click here for the Wired.com article:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/06/ti ... dal-power/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If you want to skip that all and just watch the video,
click here:
http://members.liwest.at/ooo/FERDINAND/ ... Movie.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Link to the Flickrset containing more build photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41959234@N ... 802440077/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



Again, let this be a warning to everyone:
And if Translate isn’t working for you, find someone to translate for you.
Read before sharing. This is a FAMILY FORUM & ORGANIZATION.

Thanks for cleaning that up Michael! The intended subject of the post is highly worthy and I appreciate you sharing it.

Michael, very cool of you that you didn't get offended or take it personal You are a stand up guy and I immediately know that you probably didn't scroll down.

The bike/car build was new to me and I find it interesting. Thanks for the revised links.

Michael Palero wrote:Unfortunately, the pictures were posted on what I would later find out to be a forum connected to an adult pornography blog in Spanish.

Sure it wasn't the other way around, Mike? ;)

Mike, you're so late that they already showed this car on Top Gear on their test track, sort of.