Skip to Content
Gear & Tech
Travel
Watches
Fashion
Lifestyle
Guides
steals

Get the Cool Material Newsletter

Insider recommendations, the best deals, and the most unique products & experiences, delivered right to your inbox.

Subcribe
Lifestyle Transportation

Transportation

A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital
Transportation
A Haunted Road Trip: Ghosts, Cocktails, and a Very Creepy Hospital
By Brandon Withrow
2026 Ford Bronco Outer Banks is More Civilized, But No Less Capable 2026 Ford Bronco Outer Banks is More Civilized, But No Less Capable
Transportation
2026 Ford Bronco Outer Banks is More Civilized, But No Less Capable

The Outer Banks brings commuting comfort to Ford’s off-road icon without sanding away its personality.

By Amos Kwon
1
Transportation
A Pilgrimage to Italy’s Iconic Superbikes and Supercars in Emilia-Romagna

The museums, factory tours, racetracks, restaurants, and hotels that turn Emilia-Romagna into heaven for anyone who grew up obsessed with fast machines.

By Brandon Withrow
1
Transportation
Our Favorite Finds From Bespoke Post’s Fourth of July Sale

Up to 50% off. These are the pieces we'd grab before they're gone.

By Cool Material
Transportation
Perch

Putting your bike on a kickstand in the middle of your bedroom isn't exactly the ideal storage location, what with getting around and all. Sure if you have a garage you're all set, but for the city folk and apartment dwellers there are far better places to store your fixed gear. One…

By Mike Newman
Perch-Bike-Hook
Transportation
Inner City Bikes

At first glance you may think these are some new kind of rides for Batman. Like the Dark Knight jumped on the eco-friendly bandwagon but still needed something totally different to ride around than the average city dweller—a Bat-Bike.  Inner City Bikes look radically different than what you'd think of when…

By Mike Newman
Inner-City-Bikes
Transportation
Hamboards

We have serious envy of Hawaiian residents who work at small shops to make just enough money for a place and spend the rest of their days surfing. Paradise (except we'd miss our gadgets). However, even those who live on the beach can't be riding waves all day, there's that in-between…

By Mike Newman
hamboards
Articles
Cool Material Test Drives Scion iQ

The first time I saw a Scion cruising down the road about 5 or 6 years ago, I thought “What is that?” It didn’t really impress me or impact me much at all, but I remembered the name Scion and I began to see the Toyota owned company grow. Unbeknownst…

By Kevin Jacobsen
cool-material-test-drives-scion-iq
Transportation
The Flying Pigeon Traditional Complete Bike

People much smarter than us have been saying for ages that history repeats itself. That's true in some sort of big picture sense, but we're more interested in the here and now which means reinvention instead of repetition. Here's the thing: more than 60 years ago, an iconic bicycle called…

By Cooper Fleishman
The-Flying-Pigeon-Traditional-Complete-Bike