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Post #19,290
by boxley
11/24/01 11:27:24 AM
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New nope, thinking nancy lake.
My buds in Alaska have been using these extremely annoying craft for years. the older models look more like a scooter than a bycicle, the handle bars are on a pivot at the base for up and down motion, there are unstable and fast as hell. Even the best swimmers (like myself) wear a life jacket because it is easy to go ass over tea kettle and smack yer head on the hull at 40 knots. I google but could only find pics of the newer ones.
thanx,
bill
tshirt front "born to die before I get old"
thshirt back "fscked another one didnja?"
Post #19,641
by CRConrad
11/28/01 11:36:43 AM
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New Ah... She any relation of Ricki's? But:
1) Those are definitely later than Bond's "Vespa"-style[*] one too; I saw the film in the mid-seventies, and the first commercial ones appeared in the early eighties or, at best, the *very* late seventies.

2) And they're boats too; they just have a low enough hull that you don't much notice it, but a hull is still what it is.


[*]: Oh, and just to fuck up your language centers a bit more, a "Vespa-style vehicle" _I_S_ "a scooter" in most languages; you were apparently referring to a "kick-board" or "stand-up-on-it-and-kick-off-the-ground-cycle"?
   Christian R. Conrad
The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
     Doesn't someone here do this? - (drewk) - (33) - Nov. 20, 2001, 12:10:25 PM EST
         That's *intensely* annoying. - (CRConrad) - (32) - Nov. 20, 2001, 01:07:30 PM EST
             Wing In Ground Effect - (cforde) - (30) - Nov. 20, 2001, 01:50:53 PM EST
                 Then there's ... - (drewk) - (2) - Nov. 20, 2001, 02:34:01 PM EST
                     GoodGawd - it lifts 540 TONS! - (Ashton) - (1) - Nov. 20, 2001, 03:07:23 PM EST
                         Well they do have a plane ... - (drewk) - Nov. 21, 2001, 11:29:01 AM EST
                 Oh, so *that's* what it is! - (CRConrad) - (26) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:08:26 PM EST
                     prior art - (cforde) - (1) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:38:58 PM EST
                         Naaah.... Where's the engine?!? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - Nov. 20, 2001, 06:51:25 PM EST
                     Dunno about 'handling' though.. - (Ashton) - (7) - Nov. 20, 2001, 10:46:16 PM EST
                         One aspect of handling - (Ric Locke) - (6) - Nov. 20, 2001, 11:03:34 PM EST
                             Gyroscopes? Don't got to show no steenkin Gyroscopes! - (Ashton) - (2) - Nov. 20, 2001, 11:55:57 PM EST
                                 Don't got to show no steenkin Gyroscopes! - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2001, 12:27:40 AM EST
                                     Still a gnat or two, but.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 01:15:31 AM EST
                             Didn't know that. But, I assume we can do without it? - (CRConrad) - (2) - Nov. 21, 2001, 11:18:17 AM EST
                                 It's called 'countersteering' - (drewk) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2001, 12:27:27 PM EST
                                     Nice links - and.. so That's how the girl's rig works! - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 05:57:25 PM EST
                     uh ahem - (boxley) - (15) - Nov. 21, 2001, 01:11:52 PM EST
                         You thinking James Bond? - (CRConrad) - (14) - Nov. 21, 2001, 02:43:20 PM EST
                             Heh.. have to dig out some Vincent lore. - (Ashton) - Nov. 21, 2001, 06:24:01 PM EST
                             nope, thinking nancy lake. - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 24, 2001, 11:27:24 AM EST
                                 Ah... She any relation of Ricki's? But: - (CRConrad) - Nov. 28, 2001, 11:36:43 AM EST
                             Bombardier - (Ric Locke) - (10) - Nov. 26, 2001, 11:39:51 PM EST
                                 Coupla points... - (CRConrad) - (9) - Nov. 28, 2001, 11:52:24 AM EST
                                     Pivots - (Ric Locke) - (8) - Nov. 28, 2001, 07:29:39 PM EST
                                         The Higher School of Aquatic Engineering. (Didn't go to it.) - (CRConrad) - (7) - Nov. 29, 2001, 10:31:59 AM EST
                                             A land-based conundrum.. - (Ashton) - (6) - Nov. 29, 2001, 03:42:38 PM EST
                                                 Metastability - (Ric Locke) - (5) - Nov. 29, 2001, 08:32:00 PM EST
                                                     LRPD's eval: IWETHEY's Terrible Horde of Epithetic Yammerers - (Ashton) - (4) - Nov. 29, 2001, 11:29:17 PM EST
                                                         Thought that was "Pathetic Yammerers" -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Nov. 30, 2001, 12:24:16 AM EST
                                                             It is - (Silverlock) - (1) - Nov. 30, 2001, 08:37:45 AM EST
                                                                 LRPD be versatile as well as prescient.. - (Ashton) - Nov. 30, 2001, 04:28:57 PM EST
                                                         Where's the skill? - (Ric Locke) - Nov. 30, 2001, 08:19:33 PM EST
             *intensely* annoying. - (Ric Locke) - Nov. 20, 2001, 08:29:01 PM EST

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