Here is the entire previous post so others will know what is under
discussion. If you are bent on improving things, maybe you could improve on
how you post. Try to follow the rules if that is not asking too much.
"magpie83" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:It appears there are many different attitudes to the problems
encountered by recumbent cycle users. Clearly, therefore, design is
still to be done. To iron out these problems with safety and powering
etc.
Perhaps, like Dyson himself concluded, there is a much more efficient
way of doing a job machines have been doing for years. Vacuum cleaners
used bags, this was the norm, and was never questioned. Look how wrong
we were! My point being, have we taken the recubent vehicle as far as
we ever can?! Or are we just at a happy medium, like we were with our
vacuum cleaners!
Do not vacuum cleaners still use bags?
Quoted message said:I therefore think it is a good idea to look at the possibilities of
improving safety, powering, weather protection and any other problems
your research uncovers! (Maybe it will replace the car! Perhaps you
won't, but who are we to judge!)
You are describing the automobile, an invention of the Devil that has long
been with us and has ruined all of our cities and most of the countryside
too.
Quoted message said:So, lets all try and help out, and give andy our own experiences of
using these vehicles. As who better to ask about making improvements
than the people who use the vehicles!
Good Luck with your research and design.
No magpie83, I am all tuckered out and I am going to lie down and have a
nice long sleep. I leave all this development business to the young. If they
want to do as you suggest, they are welcome to do so, but I think it is all
nothing but a wild goose chase. The bicycle is capable of only so much
development and it has been around now for well over a hundred years. I am
afraid that what you see is what you get. Anything else is pie in the sky,
oh magpie83!
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Regards,
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
"magpie83" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:Oh dear eddy, well if the complexity of improving any aspect of such
vehicles confuses your old mind, maybe you had better keep your
opinions to yourself. It is not simply a bicycle that is being talked
about. And even if it was, look at areas such as spokes, suspension,
and materials used in modern mountain bikes. Redesigned every year,
with modifications applied. Sounds like progress to me. Especially if
you were to lift a modern bike compared to the age old steel framed
bikes. Oh, and the fact that disc brakes funnily enough developed from
those devil machines you mentioned.
Bikes have not changed much in the past 25 years. The improvements you talk
about are only on the margin. They really don't amount to a hill of beans.
They are in the main just calculated to separate the consumer from his hard
earned dollar. The bike I was riding 25 years ago is just as good as any
bike today. The bike is not redesigned every year. It hasn't been redesigned
in 100 years. Just more of the same old same old. Nothing ever changes when
it comes to bikes.
Quoted message said:The fact you mention cars being, 'an invention of the devil', backs up
my argument that should sufficient improvements be made, they could
replace the automobile, in our larger cities at least. Where the are
exempt from road tax, and London's newly implied entrance fee to the
city!
Hope springs eternal in the human breast!
Quoted message said:Yes, you are correct, vacuum cleaners still can use bags, well done on
that point. But i believe the point i was making (and you missed by a
huge margin) was that by removing the bag, and exploring new technolgy
we live in healthier environments, where are children will be less
prone to breathing difficulties, such as asthma! Also, using bags can
result in a loss of up to 70%, where as bagless cleaners, retain on
average 100%. Pretty good eh! The advantages of research.
Every vacuum cleaner I ever had was connected to a bag.
Quoted message said:Andy, may i suggest you look in other forums, where people are a
little less close-minded, and open for change!
I am not Andy and i should be capitalized since it is the personal pronoun.
I see lots of room for improvement in your posting form. Maybe you could
work on that more and not concern yourself so much with improving the rest
of the world.
I don't give a tinker's damn about an open mind. As a matter of fact, I
rather appreciate a closed mind. That indicates to me that one has thought
about something and come to a conclusion. No, I think a closed mind suits me
much better since I have come to conclusions about most things under the
sun. Maybe someday if you live long enough, you will come to some
conclusions too and not be cursed with an open mind - and always to be
hoping for pie in the sky, oh magpie83.
Now I am going to lie down and have a snooze. All this verbal combat has
exhausted me. My closed mind will soon be sound asleep and I will dream
about going fast on my 25 year old bike. When I arise refreshed from my
snooze, I will perhaps vacuum the rug with my 25 year old vacuum cleaner,
the one with a bag on it.
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Regards,
Ed Dolan - Minnesota
