A quad bike buyers guide
On reading the words 'quad bike', you may well wonder what a quad bike actually is. A quad bike is essentially a motorbike with four wheels rather than two. The quad bike or ATV came to prominence in the 1970's and has been in great demand ever since.

Jefferson: Quad Cities revamps
JEFFERSON - Quad-Cities Planning and Development, formed in 2003 as a cooperative planning group for four Jackson County towns, will drop its collaborative name and regroup as a two-city department.

Morgan 4/4
Reaching some level of affluence, he purchased his first car, an Eagle Tandem three-wheeler with an eight-horsepower engine built by De Dion. In the tradition of Henry Royce and James Packard, the engineer in Morgan told him he could do better. So, with the help of a professor named Stephenson Peach, Morgan drew up a simple but well-thought-out design that was a significant improvement on the Eagle. Like the Eagle, it was a three-wheeler, a design that had significant advantages in light weight and ease of manufacture. Instead of a rear end, half shafts and a differential, the power from the engine could be supplied very easily to the single rear wheel via a chain. In effect, cars like the Eagle and Morgan's were half-car, half-motorcycle a ...

Illinois #2
Kick off this portion of the Great River Road (GRR) drive in the town of Savanna, Illinois, on the Mississippi across from Iowa. Savanna provides much for the antique-hunter. There are also nice Victorian mansions sitting on top of the bluffs. A must see is Mississippi Palisades State Park, reached by driving north from Savanna on Rte. 84. A drive through this park offers beautiful river views and wonderful eroded bluffs. Cross the river from Savanna to Iowa and head south on U.S. 67 for the Quad Cities (Moline, Rock Island, Davenport and Bettendorf) from Savanna where the terrain becomes flatter than might be expected for about 50 miles.