Original Article on Wired Magazine

Nathan Abbott's Brammo Enertia, charging in an Oregon motel room [Editor's note: Every now and then, an event crosses from the world we observe into the world we inhabit. This is one of those situations: Wired magazine contributing editor Mathew Honana regular in the office and the pages of the magazinebrought this story to our attention, and, given his personal connection, we thought we'd let him write it instead of siccing one of the regular Autopians on it. We hope you enjoy it.]Ideas often seem better from ten-thousand feet. But even at that altitude, as his plane tracked across the sky from Atlanta to Oregon, 38-year-old Nathan Abbott knew he was embarking on a fools errand: A 25-day, cross-country motorcycle journey in November and De...(read more)