<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7c622392-ccbc-4189-8b12-699b7ec059b5/14257701-8879-474F-995E-E610DB3CBEC9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/" href="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.abqtrib.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.abqtrib.com/img/1F031DAE-D935-422B-A0B3-9258920D86A1" alt="Patrick Lovato, a manager at the Barley Room Bar & Grill in Albuquerque's Northeast Heights, warms up the bar's foldable motorcycle before closing time. If a bar patron can't drive home safely, workers can fold the motorcycle, put it in the patron's car trunk, drive the car home and then drive back to the bar on the motorcycle. The service costs $20." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/">The Barley Room Bar & Grill offers a service in which General Manager Phil Lovato will ride around on a motorcycle that might look at home in a three-ring circus.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/">As funny as that might sound, it isn't meant to be amusing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/"><P>"Our main goal is to make sure people stay safe," Lovato said one day last week as he folded a circus-clown-size motorcycle into a package the size of a large suitcase.</p> <P>The Northeast Heights restaurant sees the tiny motorcycle as an innovative way to help its patrons get home with their own vehicles and, most important, without driving drunk.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/">Here's how it works: The motorcycle, once folded, is placed in the trunk of a bar patron's vehicle. A member of the restaurant staff drives customer and car home. Once there, the Barley Room worker unfolds the motorcycle and drives it back to the restaurant.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/28/albuquerque-restaurant-uses-foldable-motorcycle-an/">The customer ends up home safe without driving drunk and the vehicle parked in the driveway rather than at the bar.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/14257701-8879-474F-995E-E610DB3CBEC9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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