Product design the good, the bad and the ugly

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Woodo
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30 Nov 2011 4:32pm
barn said...
It's undeniable that bikes are far more unroadworthy than the least safe Automobile available today, they really should be illegal.



Let's make everything illegal. Just what we need in the world. Mor rules, more regulations and more f#ckwits telling us how to live OUR lives.
subasurf
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30 Nov 2011 4:34pm
Should probably make boating and wall water sports illeagal...you might get killed wet.

Woodo
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30 Nov 2011 4:41pm
subasurf said...

Should probably make boating and wall water sports illeagal...you might get killed wet.




Also anything with an engine. Machinery, planes, cars. All these items are dangerous and have taken lives and put people in hospitals at our expense.
We can go back to horse and cart instead of "automobiles" farm by hand and take boats to different countries instead of flying.
Oh wait. Boats are out aren't they...
FlySurfer
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30 Nov 2011 7:54pm
barn
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30 Nov 2011 4:56pm
Woodo said...


Let's make everything illegal. Just what we need in the world. Mor rules, more regulations and more f#ckwits telling us how to live OUR lives.


So you think it should be legal for holden to sell an EH today, no seat belts, no crumplezone, airbags, drum brakes?

I don't know any statistics, but surly hospitals would be full of people if everybody still drove an EH sh!trod.. (although the do look ok, valiants had more style imo)

So if it's not acceptable to let an EH be sold in a showroom, why can we buy motorbikes, with no safety features and ridiculous power to weight ratios??

I'm outta here, there are too many bike fanboys on here that will get all butthurt if I keep it up.

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Silence
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30 Nov 2011 8:01pm


my sweet ride.. left it in Italy, though...
no acceleration at all (the 125cc version) but it was coooooool :D
Woodo
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30 Nov 2011 5:05pm
Byebye Barn. Don't forget to take your stupid comparisons with you...
GPA
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30 Nov 2011 5:24pm
Well this thread took an unexpected and entertaining turn...

Gotta love annonomous internet forum posting for real chest thumping commentary.
Silence
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30 Nov 2011 8:33pm
GPA said...

Well this thread took an unexpected and entertaining turn...

Gotta love annonomous internet forum posting for real chest thumping commentary.


Ian K
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30 Nov 2011 6:18pm
About 20 years ago I was a government representative on an ADR (Australian Design Rule) committee which was to set a standard limiting the temperatures for underbody exhaust pipe components. Vehicles had been starting fires when parked in dry grass beside roads. The industry representative was a fellow from Mazda. The RX7 apparently ran pretty hot underneath, he wanted the limit to be 500 degrees C. I was arguing from the bushfire perspective. We'd experimented and found a surface temperature of 450 degrees C can ignite dry grass.

I can still recall the Mazda fellow when the subject of motor bikes came up over a beer. He'd been on many more ADR committees than I had. " If someone first came up with the idea of manufacturing and selling a motor bike today rather than 80 years ago it would be laughed at. They'd never even think of letting anything so dangerous out on the road"

bobajob
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30 Nov 2011 10:28pm
Product design, People the good the bad and the ugly!
slainte
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30 Nov 2011 10:52pm
^^^^^^ well put Boba
dinsdale
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30 Nov 2011 9:00pm
Woodo said...

kiteboy dave said...

Hardleys are the worst bikes bar none. Overpriced ugly poorly designed outdated yankee crap that's only good for making noise... ugly noise too, they don't even sound good. Don't get me started on Born Again Bikers who buy them...

And now made in China so i hear.

Taiwan. Have been for 30(ish) years. The badges, believe it or not, are actually still made in Milwaukee.
My major problem with Hardleys is that I can't afford the boat. What's the point of such an expensive mooring if you don't have the boat to tie up to it .

knigit
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30 Nov 2011 9:21pm
hmmmm, sounds like busta's mommy won't let him ride a bike, so none of you should either.


Loved my dirtbikes in my teens but having moved to Oz don't get much riding in anymore. Don't know if it's growing older or if I'm just turning soft like the rest of you Aussies but last time I was home mine scared me. Stalling going round the first few corners I was going so slow lol.

Much prefer the falling off in water option these days.

dinsdale
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30 Nov 2011 10:02pm
Woohoo!!! "Product design the good, the bad and the ugly" is better that global warming any day. This is more fun than the day granny got her bazookas caught in the ringer.
log man
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1 Dec 2011 1:19am
Silence said...



my sweet ride.. left it in Italy, though...
no acceleration at all (the 125cc version) but it was coooooool :D


Well, out of aaaallllll that, this is the funniest **** of the lot ..... So coooool, hahaha
bobajob
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1 Dec 2011 7:19am
Every Hardly needs a well designed support vehicle

doggie
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1 Dec 2011 8:43am
I took one day off and see what happens
BulldogPup
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1 Dec 2011 8:55am
^^^^
Giving mac a big run home to the watch too ..... get cracking lad
doggie
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2 Dec 2011 10:50am
back on track - ugly




Awesome


oceanfire
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2 Dec 2011 11:33am
doggie said...

back on track - ugly






Hell no, that looks like a great embodiment of it's intended use
Only problem with it, it's not got the enclosed room like a troopy.
subasurf
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2 Dec 2011 11:37am
oceanfire said...

Only problem with it,


There's more problems than just that
I've heard nothing but horror stories about how 5hit the hummer is offroad and for expedition use (both the military and civvy version)
oceanfire
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2 Dec 2011 11:39am
subasurf said...

oceanfire said...

Only problem with it,


There's more problems than just that
I've heard nothing but horror stories about how 5hit the hummer is offroad and for expedition use (both the military and civvy version)



I'll concede that, I just like the look of it in that pic.
FlySurfer
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2 Dec 2011 3:14pm
doggie
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2 Dec 2011 1:17pm
^^ Awesome Fly
Chris_M
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2 Dec 2011 1:42pm
Check this out: A Jaguar electric supercar, no internal combustion engine, batteries charged by jet turbines, wickedest car ever designed, the way of the future for sure.


PS Goes very fricking fast as well


cantswm4sht
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2 Dec 2011 6:48pm
And now for some ugly




Bigger
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this one is Suba hanging at the beach, he is so cool






and this one is suba,s favorite body part. that part he loves talking from




subasurf
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2 Dec 2011 6:55pm
Your wife's anus is by far not my favorite body part.
It's nothing but scar tissue.
kiteboy dave
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2 Dec 2011 10:13pm
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