The journalist was shot by a gunman on a motor bicycle while driving with his wife, Jiraporn Hosakul, on a major street in the resort island of Phuket during rush hour.

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Simpson didn't have an engineering degree, either, but that didn't stop him from constructing a motorcycle with a bicycle and a stolen motor when he was an Air Force staff sergeant on Saipan during WWII.

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The roof is connected by an elongated bicycle chain to a garage-door motor that rolls it back at the flick of a switch.

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She excitedly speaks of the smart ebike, a bicycle with a 250-watt electric hub motor in its rear wheel, launching as part of a pilot program in 2013.

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