Light Cycles - Own One!


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Love the stabilisers.
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dune stroller wrote:Love the stabilisers.
Kind of look like training wheels, don't they?
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Freakzilla wrote:
dune stroller wrote:Love the stabilisers.
Kind of look like training wheels, don't they?
:) Over here we call them stabilisers.
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I assume anything that uses less then a gallon of gas (petrol) a mile will be ridiculed?
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I wasn't ridiculing, I think they're cool.

I'd be afraid to drive one on the interstates around Atlanta with all the SUVs and 18 wheelers, though.

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Freakzilla wrote:I wasn't ridiculing, I think they're cool.

I'd be afraid to drive one on the interstates around Atlanta with all the SUVs and 18 wheelers, though.

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I must have mis interpreted ... sorry.
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Because I called them light cycles?

I'm not the only one who thought they looked like they're out of the movie Tron:

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As a biker for most of my life, I've got to say....no.
As someone whose pocket is in pain because of the cost of petrol, I've got to say...yes.

As one who supports the Deep Green Resistance, I've got to say - it won't make any difference. :(
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Aquila ka-Hecate wrote:As one who supports the Deep Green Resistance, I've got to say - it won't make any difference. :(
Awww, don't give up yet! If enough people had them it would.
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That thing is entered in my company's X-Prize. I think we have something on it at our website too.
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I saw an article about a car powered by compressed air - I still haven't decided if it's a gag. Google it, it's another one of those crazy "only to be released in Inia type things".
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Omphalos wrote:
That thing is entered in my company's X-Prize. I think we have something on it at our website too.
waaaait a second. who'd you say you work for, again?
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You call that a light cycle?!
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This is not a Light Cycle.

This is a Light Cycle.
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anyone who didn't get your reference from reading the first words of your sentence doesn't deserve to be on the interweb :)
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how about a dark side scooter ?
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One thing I really don't get about the sexy new lightcycles in Legacy is how the hell are you supposed to see anything closer than like 50 feet in front of you? That front wheel must really block your vision, particularly if you're coming up on somebody.

I guess that's just the ex-professional mountain bike racer in me talking.
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considering the speed of the machines I guess there must be some kind of navigation system to help compensate for the human factor; so I'd say a HUD or a screen displaying info and adapting the demands of the pilot to the situation(a bit like jet fighters)

In which case the front wheel would be part of that system, to cope with all the forces involved in correcting high speed trajectory changes ?
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Are you two guys trying to rationalize the navigation of this? Really. :roll:
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I imagine he just uses the Force, Doh! :)
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inhuien wrote:Are you two guys trying to rationalize the navigation of this? Really. :roll:
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I imagine he just uses the Force, Doh! :)
well as a matter of fact I was...
well yes and no, I was just trying to see if you could actually come up with a theory that would validate the cheesy view of the future found in Tron, both past and present.

Didn't need to succeed, just to try...


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The Force ???
Light Cycle ???

did you do that on purpose and am I really slow tonight ?
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lotek wrote:well yes and no, I was just trying to see if you could actually come up with a theory that would validate the cheesy view of the future found in Tron, both past and present.
Tron isn't set in the future. It's inside a computer.
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lotek wrote:
inhuien wrote:did you do that on purpose and am I really slow tonight ?
(don't answer that unless to say what I want to hear, whatever the fuck that would be after 8 hours of sitting in front of my screens)
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Freakzilla wrote:
lotek wrote:well yes and no, I was just trying to see if you could actually come up with a theory that would validate the cheesy view of the future found in Tron, both past and present.
Tron isn't set in the future. It's inside a computer.
I meant past Tron(1982) and future Tron(2010).
But you have a point though, when is the original story set , is it the 80s ? I don't remember that detail...
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