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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: shmokes on August 05, 2005, 01:39:09 pm
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http://www.retrothing.com/2005/08/surgical_steel_.html
I might just get one of these. It's cheap and for a scooter, damn cool looking. And at only 18 Mph it's pretty safe for a motorbike. I live in a pretty small town and share a car with my wife. This would erase most of the inconveniences that go along with that sharing.
The thing only weighs 70 lbs and folds up pretty small. A helluva a lot better than a Segway, that's for sure.
edit: Oh yeah....it's $1000
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If we see you riding that thing, even Paige is going to throw rocks at you.
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I just bought a full sized truck for $500. Okay it's a little heavier than that, and it doesn't fold up at all. Paige won't throw rocks at me when I drive it however. Well maybe he will, but it's already so beat up that I won't care.
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But the truck takes gas which is expensive. And it takes insurance, which is REALLY expensive. The truck would certainly eliminate all the inconveniences that go along with sharing a vehicle with my spouse, but it would also eliminate all the benefits.
And I won't hold it against you for throwing rocks at me. People who drive things like this deserve it. Hopefully I will dodge most of them.
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IMO, medical coverage for one of those should be about 5x the cost as for a car... if Stingray comes along and hits you in his truck, you're going to be FUBARed.
Plus, the stitches you'll get from being hit by golf ball sized rocks all the time.
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It's like the car on the jetsons.
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The car on the jetsons had a huge plastic bubble.
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From the article:
Best of all, you won't look like a complete dork riding one. Hell, it might even get you a few dates.
If you don't look like a complete dork people don't throw rocks at you.
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I went to the company website looking for a picture of a person riding it. They do not have one. That would imply to me that they do not feel secure in their ability to get a cool looking person pictured riding one.
Thus, one would look like a dork. One would not get dates, one would get rocks.
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The way things are going, if you drive a pickup truck you won't be able to afford rocks.
A Trek 7200 will only run you about $400 though and you can cash in on that Lance Armstrong thing.
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A Trek 7200 will only run you about $400 though and you can cash in on that Lance Armstrong thing.
..but will it get you dates?
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The same amount of dates as a $500 pickup truck, at least.
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Be sure and get the right hat for that bike.
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And, appropriately, no shirt. Flaunt those mantits proudly.
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The same amount of dates as a $500 pickup truck, at least.
Hey, I'm married. I don't need dates, what I needed was a way to get my boat to the lake. ;)
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You'd get pulled over within 10 minutes riding that around where I live.
Make sure you local laws allow you to ride it on the side of the street or sidewalk. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if they don't. :police:
You could also get a really nice mountain bike for less than a grand, and wouldn't look like a tool riding it.
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He would if he dressed up in the ugly spandex crap and pointy helmet that the riders in my town insist on wearing.
Seriously, you're riding 5 miles on sidewalks, why do you need to dress up in $350 of bright yellow spandex?
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He would if he dressed up in the ugly spandex crap and pointy helmet that the riders in my town insist on wearing.
Seriously, you're riding 5 miles on sidewalks, why do you need to dress up in $350 of bright yellow spandex?
Thats a whole 'nother mess! :D
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I'm sure their moms think they're cool.
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I do a good bit of trail biking, but I use regular clothes, a regular helmet, and have an old mountain bike that was cheap in 1990.
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I bet you had some serious aerodynamics problems.
I wouldn't get pulled over here. I'd stick to the neighborhoods (at 18 mph I'd kinda have to). Honestly, I doubt I'll get one, but I really would like to have one.
Oh yeah....Can anybody here tell me WTF Fredster is talking about?
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caUSE IT folds up
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You're in Utah shmokes, and I think any motorized vehicle needs to be registered "technically". I'm in Utah too and I have a little 49cc moped that I got a ticket on (it only goes about 20 mph too, 25 mph down hills :) ). When I asked DMV about it they said any motorized vehicle needs to be registered (which is pretty stupid as most mountain bikes can go faster than my moped). Just an FYI...
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caUSE IT folds up
LMAO....does it? Haven't seen that show in a while, I guess. Which brings up two questions:
1- What's with the smiley from your original post, the one who looks like he's about to vomit or, possibly, burst out laughing. (My clothes and portable/wireless keyboard also fold up, by the way)? What is that smiley doing, BTW?
2- Why did you capitalize USE IT?
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Yeah, the Jetsons car does fold up into a briefcase when he jumps out.
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I no longer have any respect for you shmokes.
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Oh.....JETSONS!!! I thought he said Jem and the Holograms. Yes, Jetsons. Of course his car folds up into a briefcase. Everybody knows that. ;D
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Or...if that wasn't it....
Pfft....I was wondering if anybody would fall for it. Yeah....I would never be seen in public on one of those things.
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yo wut
sofa king
i punch ya plums
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a 600W electric motor capable of propelling you or your loved ones to a peppy 18 mph (29 km/h).
With a range of up to 18 miles, the IKOO is the ideal vehicle for a commute to the train or across campus.
So this is the ideal vehicle to get to and from......other modes of transportation?
Dude, you'd be better off getting a skateboard, then Chad might not throw rocks at you!
My question is how long it takes to recharge. If 18 miles is its max range, and it takes a friggen HOUR to get that far at TOP SPEED (I can just feel the wind blowing through my back hair now :-X ) why wouldn't you just get a bicycle and do the REALLY tree-hugging frog-licking dirt-eating thing and save the planet by not wasting the electricity to charge that thing?
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let's see
Stingray's $500 gas hogging truck has the ability to haul cabinets.....
Shmokes $1000 18 m.p.h. scooter makes him target practice......
I think I'd stick to the truck.........
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I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.
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I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.
That is a funny visual to have in your head........
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I can see Stingray driving his truck, with a power inverter, with a guy in the back playing two cabs at 30mph, and another guy throwing rocks at the scooter on the sidewalk.
60 mph.
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better yet just keep driving circles around him......
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Worst. Episode. Ever.
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:D
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60 mph.
Now how are you going to play Ms Pac Man at 60mph? What is more important, gameplay or travel time? If you have a good game then travel time doesn't even matter!
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60 mph.
Now how are you going to play Ms Pac Man at 60mph? What is more important, gameplay or travel time? If you have a good game then travel time doesn't even matter!
Hey don't ask me, I'm just the one driving the truck.
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let me see a pic of you hauling a cabinet with that thing ;D
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Everything like that is a toy and not a true vehicle. Everyone I know who has ever bought ANYTHING like that and then tried to seriously use it has found out that the top speed is based on a 75 lb rider on a perfectly flat surface with no wind, the range is based on the same, and the whole thing wears out after you put a few hundred miles on it.
If it doesn't have a gas engine, and a brand name from a builder of large motorcycles then it is just a toy. A small engined gas scooter from a REAL motorcycle maker (Honda, Suzuki, Yahama, Vespa, Kawasaki, etc), will last 10,000 miles+ and will have a much better range, speed, and won't attract nearly as many tossed rocks, and will be much cheaper to operate because you'll buy and break 50 of those things before you wear out one decent gas scooter.
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See, now that's your head talking, though. If your arms and legs could talk they'd say, "Don't get anything that can go faster than this little toy. Please, for the love of god, don't by a fast bike." ;)
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paige is back again with his scooter toting knowledge, yayyy
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paige is back again with his scooter toting knowledge, yayyy
Nearly snorted Mt. Dew out my nose.
Carry on.
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If I see that thing where I live, I'm going to let the air out of the tires...
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If I see that thing where I live, I'm going to let the air out of the tires...
I have a feeling that it's designed to carry someone far less substantial than Weaselicious, so he'll flatten the tires plenty. Better to remove the front wheel entirely. It'll still do about 2 miles an hour, only he'll have to carry it ;D
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http://www.retrothing.com/2005/08/surgical_steel_.html
I might just get one of these. It's cheap and for a scooter, damn cool looking. And at only 18 Mph it's pretty safe for a motorbike. I live in a pretty small town and share a car with my wife. This would erase most of the inconveniences that go along with that sharing.
The thing only weighs 70 lbs and folds up pretty small. A helluva a lot better than a Segway, that's for sure.
edit: Oh yeah....it's $1000
Cool and scooter are mutually exclusive and cannot be used in the same sentence. It doesn't matter if it's gas, electric, hamster-powered, brand-name, no-name, moped, scooter, you will never look cool or be described as cool for owning one or riding one. Who would pay $1000 to look like a dork and get rocks thrown at you?
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I just got another scooter that I think is pretty cool looking. It's a classic old Honda C200 (http://www.dropbears.com/m/models/honda/c90c200.htm). It is a blast to ride around town. I actually stuck a 70cc engine in it (from my Honda C70) and it zips along faster than my old scooter did with the same engine (difference in wheel and sprocket size I guess). I have no problem keeping up with traffic and I get alot of people coming over and asking questions about it when I ride it (not throwing rocks :) )
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I just got another scooter that I think is pretty cool looking. It's a classic old Honda C200 (http://www.dropbears.com/m/models/honda/c90c200.htm). It is a blast to ride around town. I actually stuck a 70cc engine in it (from my Honda C70) and it zips along faster than my old scooter did with the same engine (difference in wheel and sprocket size I guess). I have no problem keeping up with traffic and I get alot of people coming over and asking questions about it when I ride it (not throwing rocks :) )
That has two things going for it. Number one, it looks like a motorcycle, not a scooter. Number two, it's 40ish years old. Classic & antique vehicles always command at least a small degree of respect. Neat looking little bike, IMO.
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Anything less than 600cc is a toy. Even 600cc borderlines on toy factor. If you can't get the front wheel off the ground at 200km/h the vehicle serves no purpose.