11-05-2012, 04:47 PM
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Don't forget the appearance you project riding it... Macho? Sexy? Successful? No. Put knobby tires, an open piped ICE, and TruckNutz on it and you might have something...
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11-05-2012, 08:57 PM
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Don't forget the appearance you project riding it... Macho? Sexy? Successful? No. Put knobby tires, an open piped ICE, and TruckNutz on it and you might have something...
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That explains everything...
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11-06-2012, 02:07 PM
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...beats walking...
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Seqway™, the uni-cycle for people afraid of only one wheel.
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11-12-2012, 05:26 PM
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I have been in college on and off for fifteen years. I imagine that students with skateboards predated me by many years. I guess that there are advantages and disadvantages of bikes, scooters, and skateboards, but somehow skateboards are "cool" and I see a line of them leaning against the wall inside every classroom. I favored "kick" scooters. I used to have old women complain to each other about my "skateboard." No, I have handlebars and brakes, and I took up less space than them and their wheeled backpacks.
I once found myself walking a mile to the bus and told my girlfriend that I wished that I had a Segway.
"Why, are your legs broken?"
"Would you ride a Segway with broken legs?"
"No, I am not lazy."
"So, you would walk with broken legs?"
That relationship did not work out...
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11-13-2012, 05:35 PM
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It's a bit sad to see what are essentially green methods of transport, being turned into powered vehicles.
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11-15-2012, 02:37 AM
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Don't forget the appearance you project riding it... Macho? Sexy? Successful? No. Put knobby tires, an open piped ICE, and TruckNutz on it and you might have something...
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You know, one of those little RC rotary engines could be really good for retrofitting to a bike or scooter with some fuel injection (alpha-N for simplicity I guess), and probably smell a lot better than the 2 stroke scooters that some people ride around and get some respectable fuel economy.
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