Zebee Johnstone said:In aus.bicycle on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:55:24 +1000
fred knieman said:Seriously tho, <cue the John Lennon song> imagine if every commuting
single-occupant car with minimal load was one of these (with handlebars
like that, shouldn't it have a milk crate bungee-strapped on somewhere?)...
Possibly better brakes too..
Apparently TS chews through brake pads, and the smoke coming off them as
they char when hauling the plot down from 60kmh can be a bit
disturbing...
Hmm...
<start completely pedantic-ness>
.... I notice it uses ULP, so it probably has emission [sp?] controls and
isn't a two-stroke. Well, unless it doesn't/isn't. Am I the only
person in the world that is annoyed by those two-stroke motorised bikes?
(... that would appear to be so v eco-friendly... unless you know how
[censored]' dirty two-stroke motors are - just one of those bikes prolly
puts out more CO/NOx/nasty combustion particles than 100 SAABs...)
Hmm, redux: does the environmental footprint an ULP recumbent moped
offset the burning brake-pads?
</completely pedantic-ness>
Disc brakes, maybe?
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Be careful what you wish for, think of those descriptions of traffic in
Hanoi or Beijing!
I've seen what Tokyo was like, and... mind weak... body strong... umm, I
mean, body weak... mind strong... must... not... tell... anecdote...
One sunny winter afternoon I was steaming home along Kokudô 4 from
Nihombashi to Koshigaya, and stopped at traffic lights somewhere in
Adachi-ku. A policeman, who was 6 foot 2, I swear, stepped out in front
of me and said (in Japanese), "What on earth are you doing, riding your
bike on the road? Ride on the footpath like a sensible person. On the
footpath, now!"
Strangely enough, I completely lost the ability to speak or understand
Japanese, except to wish him "Konnichi wa" ["good morning"], then say
"Arigatô gozaimasu", and "Oyama, uchi no o-niwaya-san wa wani ni
taberaremashita wa yo!" [(in the infections of an elderly female) "my
goodness, our gardener has been eaten by a crocodile!"]
The lights changed, and I rode off as quickly as possible.
(I wonder, has this incident has been noted in
jp.police.foreigners.odd.really-odd ...)
Demurrer: I still think the replacement of cars with HPVs would be a
good thing. And it looks like the opposite is happening in the places
you mentioned. But that's a whole 'nother thread...
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Zebee
