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payroll truth is. more than. online make your smart t.v. even smarter you think t.w. for sure. what you watch when you want it up to date extraordinary. depth you decide what some find out more. john tom smart. everyone welcome to the show and today's special edition of your max we're hitting the road is what's coming up. for posterity week racing highlights from the
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history of most sports. on the road to alcohol fike is a unique form of transport. and classic creations building so books replicas of famous racing cars. we start off the show on four wheels in the world of automobiles the city to c.v. is a legend it's french name. literally translates to two steam horses the french call was first produced in one thousand nine hundred forty nine and is often referred to as an umbrella on wheels it was more than just your average automobile the smooth suspension and affordable price made it an instant hit it's still popular popular to this day and the company in central france has given one model a make over like no other. situation
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to c.d.'s or to ship is made of wood but you can still drive it. after five years of work the car's maker of the shadow of a young is taking it out on its maiden voyage through the medieval town of notion. that meal for thought it would be off this is the first time it's been on the streets of france you know. i get mad. at you like the. question but i sit there instead of getting a little bicycle i've got a little car for. the feeling therefore probably not but the idea was to build additional not any other cars but your need for my heart set on building a durable that would help offset the fall. the disinfo is a symbol of french. the art of enjoying life to the fullest. michel's created
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venture began with this two c.v. . built in one nine hundred fifty three it was just rusting away in a barn. that's who need immediate floyd my came here thousands of times and my pencil my meter stick and paper to take all the measurements. on too thin this is. when the retired carpenter began creating the current of wood in his workshop based on blue prints that he'd sketched. don't put them on tape yes but my assembled everything on piece by piece. up with a fair amount of the platform on the chassis of addition. i constructed my frame on the top. and then i had to wait till the doors the hote and the wings to fit the standard body show. michele sentient his car from the would have
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a variety of fruit trees where there pair apple or cherry trees he used only once from the water alley. installing the sixteen horsepower engine was one of the easier tasks faithfully reproducing the different parts of the car's body was incredibly time consuming. said there was no this piece of wood here these air intakes it took three days of work so you know machine can do this so i had to do everything by going to it but propeller thought that time wasn't an issue for that with you on the way that it didn't matter if i needed for five years i just wanted to make a model that was unique. michelle is something of an expert at making wooden cars but one to ten scale model once he exhibits them in a little museum which he opens to visitors. his wooden dishes photo is now the main
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exhibit and his masterpiece. you might get you can make hundreds of little wooden models like this from all makes of cars or building a full scale model like this is something you only do once in a lifetime there will be a second time. to sawing in sanding is done michelle plans to spend the coming years showing off the fruits of his labor. and expose it i want to exhibited in art galleries and the big museums on the shelves are losing power as. you know they don't exist so it may be even at the foot of the eiffel tower. opiate that's what's going to. be on knows that his car is a real attraction after all people were drawn to it from the moment the wooden dish of the. made its debut in the streets of mush.
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many people dream of quitting their job and travelling the world perhaps you do too but there are also lots of speed bumps on the way costs and commitments often put people off but a couple from berlin found an alternative way to make their dream a reality in two thousand and twelve and the best smooth and doggie include figured out how to travel the world while making money during that travels but unlike most people they didn't hit the road but rather took to the skies to get a bird's eye view. on today most smooth and often clear but had always dreamed of soaring through the skies above new york or through monument valley. now for the two berliners that dream has come true they were allowed to fly directly over rio de janeiro. and they were the first to cross the andes on their flying motorbike
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now they're planning to travel across europe with a quick stop in a small town on germany's baltic coast christiane is waiting to greet them. good at the welcome to. the flight coordinator lets the couple stay the night in the airport building for free and it's what i have to everywhere we go people are really helpful when where you take off we don't know where we're going to spend the night we have no set plan we improvise i guess for some people on a horse and are you know in the world would be spending the night but for us it's really exciting and it always turns out really well in monotone that by. andreas tomato was twenty seven years old when he emigrated to south america and worked there as a tour guide six years ago during a tour through the amazon rain forest he met talking about six months later they decided to fly around the world. i want to flush away he opened
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a bottle of wine and finished it afterward you lived in colombia ecuador the caribbean venezuela and so on i want to go there too so i said ok take a year off no problem and i said i no longer and then we opened a second bottle of wine and when we'd finished that one green remembered that she had always wanted to fly over a herd of elephants in africa we had a low altitude remember them. so i said ok quit your job we'll sell all our stuff and a few things we keep we'll just put on the trunk and then we'll head off on our world tour. since two thousand and twelve the couple have traveled to over forty different countries they've covered a distance of more than fifty thousand kilometers it's a real adventure because the ultralight hang glider weighs just four hundred seventy five kilograms and is very susceptible to the weather.
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i don't have a fear flying i love flying and this open trike is like a bird this is the real deal it's so much fun. the couple finance their globetrotter existence with the help of sponsors by giving talks and writing books and on to a still works as a tour guide but flying around in their trike also has a downside they can only take twelve kilos of luggage with them that's it. they pick as we have put all our luggage in there the blue bags contain our clothes and we have a tank over here so we can walk to a petrol station to get fuel. and our computer and camera chargers are down there in the black bag of food to come was. then down here into the engine is our parachute can even activated an altitude of one hundred meters and that's not good not me fortunately they've never had to use their parachutes but they've certainly encountered some dangerous situations in the do not want to have to make an
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emergency landing in ecuador and it was raining really hard i couldn't see a thing you flew along the coast and there was a small patch of sand and i had to try to land the trike there she'd be in the strip of sand was fifty years sixty meters long. i managed. and the next day when the tide was out really realized that we now have lots of space and we could take off again safely for they found in. the two adventurers plan to keep flying across europe until the end of twenty eighteen then in twenty nineteen they planned to head for africa their greatest aim is to one day arrive in sydney after clocking up one hundred sixty thousand kilometers and crossing over one hundred countries that would certainly be one record breaking flight and the journey of a lifetime. well next time you're out and about how to look up to see if you can spot. pedaling
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above you now moving on to motor sports fans of also movil racing live the high octane thrills the most spectacular moves happen at lightning speed and when it comes to events from the early days of the sport they're often only preserved in the memories of witnesses so two young men from the czech republic set out to fill those gaps in history with a visual record using an amazing combination of creativity and technology. july nine hundred thirty eight an accident on the norberg ring racetrack a mercedes silver arrow busts into flames. bogus nine hundred fifty seven juan manuel fangio drives the legendary german grand prix and his maserati to fifty m. . high resolution pictures from the history of motor spokes moments that were actually never photographed. the pictures of come from the czech design studio
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unique unlimited petra millau ski and yon around boussac first had the idea when they saw an old miss say this silver arrow in progress a technical museum people that they had really been motor sports enthusiasts. i became really hardcore fan when i saw in this place this car where we are staying right now. these were such cars such a powerful cars before world war two. was very surprising. i from there i started to be very passionate about history. i'm not a racer on it i'm not so much boston noted for years trying to kill myself so. it's really more about the aesthetics around it for me at least. to form a advertising designer's began recreating moments of motorsport history in twenty forty. young go to tremendous lengths to produce their pictures they work through
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an average of two thousand to original sources before finally deciding on a motif or two then start by creating a three d. model of the car and it centering on the computer and go on to make sure every detail is right this precise template is crucial for the next step for the photo shoot visible is this is the picture that we rendered before we went to the photo shoot and then when we were on the search using the people so you you know you can crop. person and place it into the picture so you know that angle is right that the lighting is right and you know that you get the picture you need. when petra and yon take their photos it looks like a film set at times with up to one hundred extras in historical clothing makeup artists and artificial rain. the photos are later mounted on campuses up to eight square metres in science so even the smallest details can be
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scrutinized. with ascap is again digital the image processing then the shots from the center combined with the three d. model this is when the virtual car and the photograph driver become one details like atmospheric lighting or realistic smoke around it it's a demanding process and takes two to three months to produce a single picture the main reason why we're doing what we're doing was because we want to run away from what we did before there was like an advertisement so the very first project so the earth started because we really wanted to enjoy what we are doing we we didn't want to have anyone on the other side telling us how to do things better and you can also accept commissions british racing team mclaren for example ordered a picture of james hunt racing to win one thousand nine hundred seventy six world championship in japan a single picture like this costs fifty thousand euros and up the techniques the
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arteries to use can also be applied to themes outside of motor sports well i have a list of fifty scenes that i like to do so i would probably go to some. wars like crusaders or. something like this. now i think the first. interesting and we kind of started with the project but we stick to the cars so far. for now the two have their work cut out just reconstructing pictures from the history of racing and currently working on projects with ferrari and aston martin but he can run boussac and patter milewski eager to turn to things outside the world of motorsport series on historic aircraft is already waiting in the wings. now to a vehicle that isn't powered by a motor but has persevered as
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a method of transport for around two hundred years in fact there are more bicycles than cars in the world both in total and ranked by the number of individual models produced there have been all sorts of advancements since the first wooden bike hit the store shelves in the nineteenth century but in bold garia two architects turnpike inventors have created a new version by taking a step back their so-called hof bike reduces the bicycle to its basic elements our reporter michael gave it a test run on the streets of south korea. this is not an ordinary bike ride through town this is not an ordinary bike it doesn't have just one back wheel but two and they're both tiny and forget about the saddle this is not about comfort you have to use your whole body to ride a hoss bike and it takes a bit of practice. that's half
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biogas animism it's a cross between a bike in a skateboard but when you ride it it's a completely different feeling it's a whole new experience is because i'm against. hi michael it went to sofia in bulgaria to meet the inventors of the half bike the to fold up which is great for people who live in big cities. the designers are originally architects who love to invent things. like the. simplify things. started to think. bike which is. very thick very very compact very light. very from for the. bike you came. so i wanted to like. for for everybody. the prototypes consisted of half a bike and
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a mini pack wheel many temps featuring too many wheels followed but the only stability and balance the breakthrough came when they started using two skateboard wheels and a structure made at a minimum and would then the back wheels got bigger and thicker. our reporter first learned the ropes the design is explained that she could only brake using the back wheels and that they were three years yet they pointed out that the handlebar can't be twisted you have to shift your weight to go around the corner. then it was time to put the theory to the test. the bike will start their all either direction again try to get a straight white try to balance the budget bar and try to be as real like this possible that. it at first she wasn't at all relaxed she thought she wouldn't make it at all it was a bit rough to begin with. but
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she got the hang of it after ten minutes. although she didn't dare try the tougher courses beating those two more experienced tough bike riders elite. she practiced a little more before venturing out into the wild since there are a few psychopaths in sofia she preferred to hone his skills in the pocket before confronting the up and jungle she was able to get straight quite fast but it took a while to master turns. then she decided to see if others were quicker at learning from she was. it seems that hardly anyone can really ride a hoss bike without
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a bit of practice. but those who master it and sometimes ride two at the same time . but in poverty it is the other like it looks easy but it really is and it takes quite a lot of effort and every muscle is needed you have to be quite fit to ride a half bike but if you are then it's really quite good fun then the porsche passed . while michael was having fun and beginning to master riding the hof bike the team and sophia was already working on new ideas since there are many. ways of reinventing the wheel. well we're not reinventing the wheel with the next lot of rickety cars we now move on to soapbox cars normally motiveless vehicles which are raced on a downhill road but frank ben conan's creations are quite
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a lot more glamorous than your standard gravity reisa he models them on iconic old racing cars from bugatti ferrari and bentley it all began as a hobby but today he makes a pretty penny with his custom made old timers. features that hark back to the olden days but this isn't a well preserved classic it's a soap box replica built in twenty seventeen and the proposition of sisters and. the example that we as kids are allowed to drive it comes out even if it's a small cut. out and it's a lot of fun. i really should this i think it's great save because it's fun and it's always a new experience. it's. this soap box even has a motor the girl's two seater is handmade one of a kind it's
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a remake of the english one nine hundred thirty s. . and it's pretty much their dad's dream car dad close down is a big fan of classic cars and he's aiming to pounce on his passion to you. i'm very hopeful and i take my girls to classic car races at the nürburgring. sometimes they take part in rallies along with me and my wife. make their father's hobby their own. and this is the man who builds them. from people in southern germany artistry might not make him rich but he doesn't mind it's all about the look in kids' eyes. when i see that makes me really happy because that's what the cars are actually made for. i mean i like
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driving but when children drive and really have a great time that's the greatest joy for me. it all started in twenty twelve there was a soapbox race in funk village he'd been tinkering with cars. since he was sixteen so he had no problem building his own race and. he didn't have the space to keep it so he sold it there was such an onslaught of buyers that he turned building soap boxes into a regular thing. i love any type of car from before world war two they're all beautiful i have no favorites i like all my cars the same he works as a foreign sales agent but he's made quite a name for himself with his classic soap box speedsters. a certain basic idea in my head and then i start building and it just happens. it develops itself building it there's no fixed concept this is a concept i know what the car is supposed to look like when it's done and then i make sure that's how it turns out you know. each of his soap boxes is one of.
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the base is always a wooden board fixed to a wooden frame then he makes the aluminum body which can take weeks sometimes months depending on the model with all this attention to detail doesn't it hurt to let go of his mobile masterpieces. yes every time. but the problem is you can't keep everything. you have to let it go sooner or later . but maybe just one can stay. completely rebuilt his classic car only the chassis and motor of the english one nine hundred thirty standard have remains. for custom husky design something extra special a soapbox to practice racing. you do the idea was really to get a sense of the experience even indoors and the car turned out beautifully good for
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me but it doesn't have any wheels of course it runs on roller self but it really helps me practice for circus races. his daughters are still only ten and eleven years old and it'll be a while before they're racing for real. if the two still have a soft spot for cars like their dad when they grow up remains to be seen right now it's looking highly likely. that's all from us for today tomorrow will be back with another special edition of your marks so make sure to join us again about for now. and our next miramax special cream fine dining fifty meters above the ground. odd couple get
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