Free SLB Shop and Hop Car

 

The Second Life Birthday has a large number of freebies. Among them is a car.  So where is it and how well does it run?

 

 Read more in Design.

 

Cartoon of The Day: Tune Up

 

 

 Taken at Burn2. Burn2 has some crazy vehicles. So why would one look like a guitar? I could think of one reason.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

"The Great Wacky Race" on Rust

 

As a multiplayer survival game, Rust has a reputation for ruthlessness with its player versus player actions, such as rading bases and making trap bases to deal with raiders. Fortunately for more peaceful-minded players, there are PvE servers in which players are free to build without the worry of other gamers wrecking their progress. But that doesn't mean there's no competition. Recent updates to the game allowed for players to build cars. With the Nydia's Angels server in Rust back up and running, a number of players decided to make their own. Then came the idea of a race between players, which came to be dubbed "The Wacky Race." So how did it turn out?

Read more in Other Grids, MMOs, and Games.
 

The Surplus Motors UTV, And More Home and Garden Items

 

The Home and Garden Expo is almost over. But there's still time for a little shopping. Among the items one can get is the the Surplus Motors UTV. It's actually a package of six vehicles, of which 100% of the money goes to the Relay. It's a nice little car. And it's not the only item one can get at the Expo. We took a look at a few more. 

Read about the UTV, and a few other items at the Expo, in Design.
 

"The Mouse," The SL18B Gift Car

 

I've been hearing about a new little car that's being offered at the Shop and Hop for free as a gift: The Mouse. With it's small size, plus the ears and tail decorations, the little car has gotten some positive comments in some Second Life group chat. I decided to get one to see for myself. So how does it handle?

Read more in Design.
 

Cartoon of the Day: Why Park Here?

 

 Taken at the CDS Inaugural Ball. Tuk-Tuks, also known as auto-rickshaws, were given out to people. This three-wheeled vehicle with characteristics of motor scooters and small cars can go in places it's larger four-wheeled counterparts can't. That might come in handy at times.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day

Taken in Ravenlock
 By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Virtual Ability. One thing many futuristic movies have in common is the flying car, which while there have been numerous prototypes not one has made it to production. Fortunately in Second Life, they're not so hard to get.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day: At The Relay

Taken at RFL Celebrate at the Fantasy Faire campsite. Guess for a desert lover, this would be a "sweet" ride indeed.

By Bixyl Shuftan

SL Enquirer: "Get The Freight Out"

There's a new game in Second Life that people on the Newser team have seen people play: "GTFO" or "Get The Freight Out." In this game, the player takes a truck, plane, or boat (limited to certain brands) and transports goods. Seersha Heart of the SL Enquirer wrote an article about the game, and why she finds it interesting.

Read Seersha's article in the SL Enquirer.

Cartoon of the Day

From the 2016 Bay City Parade. A "Flintstonemobile" that was part of the parade glitched and went down the road on the front wheels. Yours truly doesn't recall the cars in the cartoons that aired in his boyhood having this kind of trouble. Then again, the main character was a heavy guy. Maybe his weight kept this kind of thing from happening.

By Bixyl Shuftan

JFC Bike Store

Introduction

JFC Bike store was founded in 2008 by Jayra Magic. She was tired of bikes that ride and steer the same way. So, she decided to make her own bikes in Second Life. She wanted to create a bike with their own character and spirit. She spend many nights with “Mr. Try” and “Dr. Error” to fine tune the good old HQ 1.0 script. Before Jayra Magic made bikes in Second Life, she was pole-dancing at a club called “Killing Floor” to make some money for her first bike-parts. The challenge was to seek a balance between the different vehicle parameters, because when you change one it affects the others. Lexei Glas (LG Bikes) taught her the basics of bike creation and also shared scripts. That’s when the JFC bike script was born.

JFC Bike store

The first “official” JFC Bike store was on Biker World. There she met up with Moppi Riddler , who asked her if she could do some creative stuff in Second Life too. She agreed and Moppi Riddler agreed to make some biker outfits to fit with the bikes Today Moppi Riddler is the proud owner of MRSTYLE bike outfit store, which is located next to JFC Bike Store.

Dixie Jefferson completed their team she helped out with scripts, building, sculpts and mesh to create the awesome roads that surround the sim. There are so many people that Jayra Magic would like to thank.

After the store moved to different other locations, the store finally stranded on the “CALI to NYC’ sim, and that’s where the store is still located.

The JFC Bike store building is a modern building with rez pads for every single bike. So, when you want to try out a bike, just click on the rez pad and it will rez a demo bike for you. Then you can ride the bike to see if it fits you. You can ride around the roads surrounding the store to find out if the bike rides like you want it to. When it does, you can buy the bike at the store.

Everyone is welcome to hang out at the store and enjoy riding the bikes.

At the JFC Bike store you can find bikes, motorcycles, choppers. They are all made in high quality bike-parts and they are all scripted with the unique feature-rich and low lag scripts of JFC bikes.

Jayra Magic says “"Let me create to enjoy and share the fun and feeling."

Her bikes are the best bikes in Second Life.

So, come and find your new bike at JFC bike store at :

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/CALI%20to%20NYC/195/176/142

Wesley Regenbogen  

Jayra Magic and JFC Bikes

By Wesley Regenbogen

About Jayra Magic

Jayra Magic is the owner and creator of the JFC Bikes and the store. She’s a bike builder and has a bike store. Making bikes in Second Life is her passion and she’s good at her job. Her bikes are awesome bikes, because she puts her passion into making them.

I met Jayra Magic at the place where she makes her bikes, after she teleported me over.

I first asked how she was doing and she told me “I’m doing fine” and she asked how I was doing and I told her I was doing very well.

I asked how she got started in Second Life and how she got started as a bike creator. She told me that a friend of her told her about Second Life and that it didn’t take too long before she met people that liked bikes as she did.

Next, I asked her how bikes are made and what processes that it goes through to get into the final product and ready to be sold. She told me that there are multiple ways to get a bike made : she buys bike parts and puts them together until it looks like a bike, or she buys bike-kits and puts her own scripts into it and also adds her own textures.

Creating a bike can take weeks, she also told me. So, making bikes is time consuming. It takes so long because she has her own vision on how it needs to look and sometimes she can't find the right bike parts. So, that's why she makes her own bike parts too. She wants every bike to have their own character and not only a look. So fine tuning it can also take a few days work.

Then I asked her if she has a collaboration with other bike creators or she only works solo. She told me that she always likes to learn from other bike creators and that Lexei Glas (LG Bikes) teached her the important things about Second Life bikes. She has a special collaboration with Moppi Riddler, the bike outfit creator called MRSTYLE, they have been friends for over 9 years. Her shop is located next to the JFC bike store.

When I asked her where she gets the inspiration for creating bikes in Second Life, she told me that gets many ideas from customers and also from real life role models and also her own fantasies and ideas that she has.

Then I asked her if she has lots of customers from MCs, or motorcycle clubs, around Second Life. She told me that she has many people from MC’s in Second Life, but also non MC related people that want to buy a bike. There are many people that are in a MC in Second Life that ride bikes from JFC. She is proud that people ride her bikes in Second Life.

I asked her what if a customer wants a custom made bike. She told me that if it doesn’t cost her more to make it, she sells it at the regular price, but she currently is unable to make custom bikes. She doesn’t make bikes for 1 person, but she wants to make bikes for everybody out there. She wants to share her creations ( the bikes ) with everyone.

The last question I asked was what plans that she has for the future. She told me that she hopes to keep on selling bikes and that her shops continues to grow and that her store runs for a couple of years at least. And she hopes that she never runs out of ideas to make bikes. She also hopes that she can spend more time exploring biker sims and also join in on parties/concerts and also doing some sailing in Second Life.

I thanked her for taking the time for doing the interview and wished her luck in the future.

Wesley Regenbogen

SL14B: Pod Travel

"The Birthday" is just days away now. Performers are being notified, and exhibitors and volunteers are busy with last minute adjustments. Here, I'm using one of the "pods" that automatically move one down the roads, as well as providing riders with a little info on some of the exhibits.

Sunday June 18 is the big day, the gates opening at Noon SL time. For more information on the SL14B, check the blog at: http://www.slcommunitycelebration.info/ .

See you there.

Scenes From the Sunbeamers' Road Rally

For most teams in the Relay for Life in Second Life, the Relay Weekend marks the end of their activity. But the Sunbeamers had one last event: their Third Annual Road Rally. Participants both in and outside the Sunweaver community dropped by to burn some rubber, or just watch and/or donate some cash. Besides the excitement of the competition, there was also excitement in the air over the team being close to the coveted Platinum level, which the Sunbeamers had yet to reach since the team was formed a few years ago. So who had the fastest wheels?

Read more in Events.

SL Newser At The SL12B : Sneak Peek Part Two

And what might this contraption be? This is Ranchan Weidman's contribution to the SL Newser exhibit for the Second Life Twelfth Birthday celebrations, or SL12B. Or rather, this is how it looked when she was about halfway finished. Since then, she's completed the structure and resized it.

So what does it look like now? You'll see for yourself in a few days when the SL12B opens.

LEA2 : The History of the Vehicle

With residents being able to teleport and fly around, some might not see vehicles in Second Life as being of much use. Others can't do without their mechanical workhorses. However you see them, vehicles have been in Second Life since it's start, and have had quite a history. Sapphire Hotaling has a series of exhibits in LEA2, titled "The History of Vehicles in Second Life." Gemma Cleanslate went over to take a look.

Read Gemma's review in Design.

Cartoon of the Day

Picture from Gemma Cleanslate, caption by Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Burn2, the art and music festival was known for its "mutant" vehicles for going around. Some were stranger than others.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Another one from Burn2. This is one of their various vehicles one can rezz, hop aboard, and go around the festival grounds. How one ends up with a seemingly runnaway vacuum is left for others to imagine.

Bixyl Shuftan