--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
[snip] > > I can get up to about 15MPH comfortably for at least a few miles, > cruise for hours at about 10MPH, and climb up to a 17% grade hill. > One can carve a three foot wide sidewalk, or do huge 20 foot wide > "swaths of Doom." It's all fun. > > Here's me doing about 10 - 15 MPH going up a 12% hill and back down: > > http://youtube.com/watch?v=KbXRXYxo-Zk [snip] If the youtube vidoe of you is any indication of how this contraption works, Duveyoung, I predict you've got about 6 months of life left before you're run over. I can't imagine anything more dangerous than this swerving, non-airbag- equipped, non-rear-view-mirror-equipped, exposing-the-entire-body, moving target collection of soldered metal. Why don't you just paint a sign on your chest that says: "hit me with your SUV because this heap of junk is designed to continually swerve into traffic." Forgetting for the moment that when you ride this thing you're continually breathing in the exhaust fumes of the cars that whiz by you without any benefit of a filtering system, can the drivers of the other vehicles that share the road with you be happy with someone swerving into their lane and line of vision? Psychopaths in gun-control states must be frothing at the mouth in excited anticipation of the appearance of this invention because they won't have to worry about being guilty of road rage because, without the benefit of a firearm, they can kill you with inpunity: "Hey, the idiot just SWERVED into my lane...I couldn't avoid him if I wanted to!" I can only imagine what will happen to our roadways once we have a Trikke lobby. Those 3-feet-wide bicycle paths common on many urban and suburban streets will be widened to 20 feet and the cars will be limited to the width of a path made for Hudson Metropolitains and tricycles. "Go play in traffic" should be the catch phrase of this emerging technology and they should rename it "The Swerving Dervish".
