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GoutPatrol posted:Before I got wireless buds I spent many years searching for more J-Style earbuds where the cord would go over your neck, which made it much easier to take out when
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Yeah you want going around the neck earphones for jogging, you can get Bluetooth neck earphones for jogging and cycling too.
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You Am I posted:Holy poo poo an 060 accelerator The only reason I sold it really was because my chosen career (web development) involved all sorts of software that just wasn't available on the Amiga, so my hand was forced. I eventually bought another A1200. The managing director of Amiga shortly before they completely went under, a man named Petro Tyschtschenko, was told about a cache of hundreds of brand-new, never used A1200s that were sold to India but never made it to customers, so he organised a group buy for Amiga fans to get them at more or less cost price, and I was one of the lucky ones.
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I envy you. I want to be nostalgic for Amiga. Everything about it looked so cool and I imagine everyone had a ton of fun with it back in the day. Seems like the kinda stuff I'd still have fun with, and the nostalgia would be a bonus. I love old niche operating systems and just everything about it. Sadly it was not meant to be, for I only had a lowly vic-20 as a kid until the jump to Windows 95, me turning into a nerd, and everybody dumping their 386s and 486s and even a 286 on me to screw around with (and it was awesome.) Still though, there used to be a "beta collecting" scene. There still is, but the spinoffs of the original community are a shadow of what they were in the early 2000s. I screwed around with basically every weird build of Windows we had, and they were full of obsolete and failed tech, I think Windows development was a trainwreck back in the day where different labs would be making builds that were both ahead of and behind builds from other labs, and they were all trying new stuff that would almost definitely be cut from the final build. One of those around the ME/Neptune era, activity centers.  The idea was basically not that different from electron. But because Microsoft can't finish a single cool thing, it failed.
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Did those even have mufflers? I just realized how loud it must have been when there were a bunch of early cars clogging the streets
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Guessing a pedal-powered vehicle doesn't need a muffler
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Guessing a pedal-powered vehicle doesn't need a muffler Everyone was real gassy back in the day
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Guessing a pedal-powered vehicle doesn't need a muffler Depends on the gearing, I've heard some loud bicycles.
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:Guessing a pedal-powered vehicle doesn't need a muffler I dunno, it can get a bit drafty, plenty of times on a ride I would've liked a muffler, back before my bicycle got stolen
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Had the rare pleasure of introducing a couple of friends to the Sinclair C5 last night. 
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Had the rare pleasure of introducing a couple of friends to the Sinclair C5 last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL_0QGvPz7M Had to look it up on youtube, it's basically a bad bike, it looks cool but that's about it
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The C5 was much-mocked at the time, but it's one of those cases of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and not knowing how to do the e-bike thing correctly. Sinclair tried again in the early 90s with a folding e-bike called the Zike, but battery technology still hadn't caught up and it was slow and under-powered just like the C5. But things like the C5 and Zike had to fail so that people could get it right later.
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Sweevo posted:The C5 was much-mocked at the time, but it's one of those cases of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and not knowing how to do the e-bike thing correctly. Sinclair tried again in the early 90s with a folding e-bike called the Zike, but battery technology still hadn't caught up and it was slow and under-powered just like the C5. But things like the C5 and Zike had to fail so that people could get it right later. I used to see one of these parked on the street in austin just rotting away  it really wasn't till cellphones and laptops drove the market to need better batteries that we got any real improvement in battery tech, instead of cars forcing the innovation, thats why there were so many false starts with these early electric vehicles I guess.
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armpit_enjoyer posted:Had the rare pleasure of introducing a couple of friends to the Sinclair C5 last night. I have never seen it, but I really like the look of it. The hub caps look really classic. Can we reboot BTTF with this handicapped ebike?
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The Wikipedia C5 article has one of my favourite bits of blunt writing everquote:A Sinclair spokesman told the media that the halt in production was "due to a shortage of certain components which are unable to be re-ordered while a financial settlement is pending. Once this has been concluded production is envisaged to recommence."
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Not directly related to the C5, only via "silly-looking vehicles from decades past" but there's a bloke living somewhere near me whose daily ride is apparently a Reliant Robin. No idea who he is, I just see him driving the thing around on a regular basis.
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stephenthinkpad posted:I have never seen it, but I really like the look of it. The hub caps look really classic. That's the one thing I can't fault the C5 for: Sinclair got Lotus to design the chassis and it still looks great.
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LifeSunDeath posted:I used to see one of these parked on the street in austin just rotting away Those things were so loving badly made lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilIozuRmTQs
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I remember seeing a Simone Giertz video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXzcIoq2ing I'd love to have something like that to zip around town in at 15-20 MPH. Just a small electric car/thing (but more modern battery and motor technology) for quick trips to the store or what have you. I love rare little vehicles like that and wish I had the space and money to collect more. I have a weird three-wheeled Honda "scooter" thing (Gyro), but it still takes gas (I've thought about trying to convert it to electric but I'm not that technically skilled.) 
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Ebikes really fill that need now. You can have a small basket or cargo holder on the back. 20mph and a little bit of exercise, and very affordable.
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Nocheez posted:Ebikes really fill that need now. You can have a small basket or cargo holder on the back. 20mph and a little bit of exercise, and very affordable. They also make electric motorcycles/scooters now which are cool. I'd really like an electric Honda Trail... Sometimes they put some pedals on those electric motorcycles and call them a bicycle and dickheads ride them on cycle paths, which isn't cool.
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Sweevo posted:The C5 was much-mocked at the time, but it's one of those cases of being in the wrong place at the wrong time and not knowing how to do the e-bike thing correctly. Sinclair tried again in the early 90s with a folding e-bike called the Zike, but battery technology still hadn't caught up and it was slow and under-powered just like the C5. But things like the C5 and Zike had to fail so that people could get it right later. Yeah. I've actually had a go driving/riding a C5, albeit around a former airfield rather than on the actual roads. In isolation, as a personal transport device, it's actually a really neat design. It's a great upgrade over being a pedestrian or a cyclist and would work really well if we lived in mixed-density cities with local amenities linked by grade separated cycle paths and streets where pedestrians have priority. Unfortunately (as the pics show) it exists in a car-orientated world with roads occupied by cars, trucks and lorries. And it was hampered by the state of battery and motor tech. As well as being a vehicle with no weather protection (other than an optional cagoule) in the famously balmy, warm and predictable UK.
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That's the part I don't get, why build a sit down transport without weather protection? It just doesn't make sense.
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Kwyndig posted:That's the part I don't get, why build a sit down transport without weather protection? It just doesn't make sense. What? 
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Kwyndig posted:That's the part I don't get, why build a sit down transport without weather protection? It just doesn't make sense. It's not supposed to have the boring stuff.
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evobatman posted:What? That man is absolutely contemplating jacking off in there, if he isn't already doing so. Edit: God damnit you're quick vv tribbledirigible has a new favorite as of 22:05 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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tribbledirigible posted:That man is absolutely contemplating jacking off in there, if he isn't already doing so. I sincerely hope you quoted the wrong post
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The pedals are actually attached to a hand job machine
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wesleywillis posted:The pedals are actually attached to a hand job machine there's no way your mom could fit under that little poncho thing
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tribbledirigible posted:That man is absolutely contemplating jacking off in there, if he isn't already doing so. mobile jack shack
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there's a loophole in the law. you're allowed to do it in one of those things. cops can't do poo poo.
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Pham Nuwen posted:there's no way your mom could fit under that little poncho thing Since she's a pile of ashes in an urn over the fireplace at my dad's house, she probably could actually.
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uber_stoat posted:there's a loophole in the law. you're allowed to do it in one of those things. cops can't do poo poo. I'm sorry ma'am, but he's in a jackwagon. I can't even tell him to move along, much less write a ticket or arrest him.
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they see me rollin' i be jackin'
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Flipperwaldt posted:I got Sennheiser CX 300-II in 2010 that were like this. I thought this was really common, but I don't really know. It's like a taboo to make a promotional picture that shows the whole cord apparently.
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wesleywillis posted:The pedals are actually attached to a hand job machine so that's actually a foot job machine
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doctorfrog posted:they see me rollin' they always trying to catch me ridin’ squirty
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Weird scooter discussion reminded me of the various attempts to make roofed bikes or bike/car hybrids. BMW in particular seemed really invested in it over here for a short time (e.g. strongly lobbying for them to be exempt from helmet laws), but they never seem to have gone anywhere. 
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I read this short manual about how to send telegrams from 1928 https://web.archive.org/web/20170315175434fw_/http://www.telegraph-office.com/pages/telegram.html#How%20to%20Write%20Figures This sounds awesome: quote:Telegraphic Shopping Service -- In addition to the regular money order service, the telegraph companies maintain what is known as a telegraphic shopping service. As now organized, this service permits of the purchase by telegraph of any standardized article from a locomotive to a paper or pins. The person wishing to make the purchase has merely to call at the telegraph office, specify the article he wishes to have bought, and pay the cost, plus a small charge for the service. Directions will then be telegraphed to the point at which the purchase is to be made, and an employee will buy the article desired. It delivery is to be made in the city where the article is purchased, it will be forwarded by messenger. If delivery is to be made at a distant point, it will be sent by parcel post or express.
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