What always bugs me is a pretty girl riding on the back of a bike in halter-top and hot pants with no helmet. Seems to me that if the rider cared about her he'd take more care with her. After he drops the bike she's probably not going to be so pretty anymore.
I don't either, but it would be handy from MPOV.
Usually the pro's are wearing leather suits that literally keep the body parts from being slung or torn off. Most bike riders you see on the street are not wearing leather and freeway accidents are not pretty.
The orthopedic surgeon who worked on my finger when I had my table saw injury specializes in fingers and toes. He said his number one source of business was due to feet going into lawn mowers, but his number two was table saw injuries. This guy isn't just an ER doctor, he is the specialist they called from the ER when they needed to put my finger back together, so he isn't talking about the people who bang their head on their saw. My injury probably didn't qualify as an "amputation" since it wasn't totally cut off, but it was nonetheless more serious than bumping into the corner of the table or whatever. I guess I'm saying that there are probably lots and lots of serious injuries that are not "amputations" every year. My injury for instance was about as trivial as one could hope for when a hand goes into a table saw blade, but it was still pretty awful and cost about $6000 by the time I was done with it. This guy who worked on me serves Cambridge and Somerville (Boston metro area), which have a combined population of ~175,000.
-Holly
Leon responds:
Which is the reason I mentioned thonged sandals and shorts. That is not the fault of the motorcycle. That is the fault of human stupidity, plus an ever present concept that the person going around half naked on a bike is "special" and it will never happen to him, or her. Sane riders dress appropriately, though seldom in full racing leathers...but, then, they seldom run full racing speeds.
Charlie Self "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell
I am not disputing your comments Charlie. I had 3 motorcycles myself and most the accidents that I had were in a parking lot or some one running into me when I was stopped. Its just that if you get hit by a car on the freeway and you loose control I do not think that there is going to be much hope of surviving unless you see the situation happening and can prepare for the fall. I always wore leather boots with leather soles as I did not want my feet getting any traction when they touched to pavement and the bike was moving at any rate of speed. Living in Houston also may be the reason for my friends comment about the helmet making body identification easier. The riders were usually hit by another car or 2 after the collision.
I would call that a "delusion", instead of a concept.
My Harley Sportser was stolen many years ago and, after so many close calls, I decided not to replace it. Starting to think that there are some things old farts just shouldn't do.
I called them today. They got 98 in and another 98 are due in January, and then another 98 after that and.... - that's what the rep told me.
Why 98??? - they fit 49 to a shipping container
I imagine it will be a couple of months before they catch up with the pre-ordered units.
I asked about a 12" saw - "if there is enough demand then we will do it."
He said lots of people are calling, wanting to see one before they order it.
Mike
I haven't seen any proof, so far, that they've shipped more than one unit to an actual customer. Nor have I seen any proof that that unit was an actual production unit, and not a prototype.
This is not the same as "now it is getting delivered."
Wake me up when they've actually shipped fifty production units to actual customers.
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Do you have any evidence that they've shipped *more* than one?
Given the company's track record so far, it's not too much of a stretch of the imagination to suppose that the one unit we've seen evidence of so far is a prototype, shipped in order to appear to be in actual production so as to keep their venture capitalists from turning off the flow of money just yet.
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Ok, point taken. I guess I might just me more cynical then most; I consider what they have tried to do w.r.t. legislation to be "par for the course" for companies and what I might even try to do if I was very strongly profit motivated. Or perhaps even believed in my product to an extreme. However, companies try stupid shit all the time; you can't ask a tiger to change his stripes. If, however, your legistlators are willing to make a patented, single-sourced solution a requirement without price controls, it might be time to vote for someone else. Actually, if the invention was considered vital to public safety, the patent could be removed...
I would hope that the venture capitalists were scrutinizing a bit more diligently than _that_.
Why don't you answer the question? *Do* you have evidence that they've shipped more than one? Do you have independent evidence that they've shipped anything other than a prototype?
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Maybe you should be working on YOUR reading comprehension. The point is you did not pre-order, and now it is getting delivered. You must be pissed off because you didn't.
Sorry, but I left out "not clicking."
You must be a bit slow or something. Do you think only one unit shipped?
No, I'm annoyed that you seem to claim that "click here to pre-order" means I could buy one if I wanted to. It doesn't, and I can't. (and I don't, but that's beside the point)
Doesn't change your ignorance, Ted. They're trying to have laws passed to force me to use something that I can't buy. It's really quite simple. Because of that inarguable history, I'm unlikely to ever be a customer.
What part of "show me" aren't you comprehending here, sparky?
Remember the whole dot-bomb thing a few years ago? Venture cap isn't always all that careful.
Well then, I guess you haven't been checking the original link I posted at Sawmill Creek then, huh?
Wake yourself up.
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