Some, such as Rover's defeat of a foe by mime, are sublime silliness; others fall flat – the motorcycle comic capers make it hard to get a grip on the narrative in the crucial opening moments.
The company counts among its advisors and angel backers Tesla's original founder and battery tech inventor Martin Eberhard, and EnduroCross inventor and the man credited with getting flat-track motorcycle racing into the X Games, Eric Peronnard.
Both have been diminished by the image of a furtive president leaving his girlfriend's flat in a motorcycle helmet.
Pull over on the side of the road if you discover that one of your tires is going flat or if your motorcycle has developed a wobble.
Telling a roomful of strangers about losing your twin is like going off the high dive, said Michael Caruso, a 58-year-old physical therapist in Highland, Md. In the summer of 1970, a hit-and-run driver killed Mr. Caruso's identical twin, Lee, as he walked a motorcycle with a flat tire down a two-lane road on the Jersey Shore.
The racing is done on small, flat, oval tracks with lightweight motorcycles that have small fuel tanks and no brakes.
— For four conspicuously quiet hours on the second-annual National Plug In Day, electric cars and motorcycles swarmed the flat, oak-shaded boulevards wending through office parks just south of Los Angeles International Airport.
Mr Hollande did take a couple of other questions on "l'affaire Gayet" without confirming or denying that the man pictured in a motorcycle helmet leaving her flat on 31 December was indeed him.
Tough and limber, the horizontally opposed engine -- a flat four, as in a BMW motorcycle -- loves to rev high and hard, snarling through the twin-port exhaust with the high-pressure turbocharger whistling like a piccolo.
He arrived on his Zero Motorcycle which is Eco-Flat Stanley's favorite electric motorcycle right now.
