Comments by "" (@rstevewarmorycom) on "The Fastest Bike in the World" video.

Meaningless garbage, Quit playing with young athlete performance toy crap and give us superlight electric bicycles and tricycles with weather shells that your grandmother can use, or else people are going to destroy the world because they have no other way to live in the modern world. Why are you wasting your time and energy for this shit while the world burns?
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jtkent28 If people are just too fat, then stop hating, stop judging, and decide to save the climate with nice comfortable light enclosed recumbent electric bikes for them, which use 1/100th the energy to get them where they need to go, and then they won't need the gas guzzlers. Put pedals in them too and they would have a chance at rehab-ing themselves. Bikes are NOT an all or nothing proposition, if they were it would look just like it does now, climate change, till we all croak. People will never go for it until you do, even if it kills everybody, because biking just looks too impossible to them. Look at the older people, they could never do it, but the more people with bikes of all kinds the more we'll build separate bikeways for them, like in Europe.
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You don't grasp the reality. Sure, plants like more CO2, until they get too much and then they die. We like it to keep our pulse regulated above 0 bpm, but too much and we stroke out. And what it causes, the temperature dislocation of the climate bands for plants that can't run away causes whole eco-systems to collapse. People who say what you said flunked biology and chemistry.
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Ratfink820 Don't like your own treatment, eh?
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Christopher Wanha The level of CO2 has remained within a range of 180 to 280 ppm while human population grew, UNTIL we started burning fossil fuels. Now it is twice that in only 50 years. The earth can handle a certain level, but not a lot more.
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Ratfink820 You're a shit with a capital S.
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Ratfink820 But that attitude is precisely why you're never going to get to Mr & Mrs fat SUV about this, you're shooting yourself and your cause in the foot. You are going to have to make room for people who are never going to enjoy exercising and many who are no longer capable of exercise or else you'll never save the planet. That means ultra light vehicles with batteries and electric motors, after a while powered by solar, but for now you'll have to settle for them using just a lot LESS fossil fuel with an enclosed comfortable recumbent bicycle armchair that gets ten times the mileage of their SUV. If you don't serve that end you might as well give up on the planet and simply die, because that is the nature of the truth right now, and if that offends your aesthetic sensibilities then too bad.
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Pssst! They're not efficient!!! They're a rich kid's toy!! Microwaves are LOADS better. They use a 1/4 the energy. Also, dumbass. BP can't make you buy it, or make you vote for it.
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hitssquad 500ppm? About 6 degrees Celsius increase in the earth's average temperature, loss of half the Antarctic ice cap, and a sea rise of 30 feet and if sustained for an additional 100 years it would be much worse, a sea rise of 100 feet,, with some predicting a release of deep ocean methane ice that would push us past a tipping point into another Permian Extinction. Maybe the latter is a little less likely, but the prairie and bread basket of the nation turns to desert, and Canada and northern Russia have to feed the world because nothing will grow anywhere else.
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Vincent van 't Laar Irrelevant. Each of has the right to demand experts in a field not our own to meet the needs of people in an impending geo-catastrophe, and not merely sport hobbyists.
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Robert Raicu Typical delusional immortal young person. Every bunch of young people imagines they will be fitter, and that they couldn't possibly become as bad off as the old folks they see around them. WRONGO!!! The state of health of the old doesn't come so much from "letting yourself go" as from being less able to do what you did when you were young. It simply becomes impossible to sustain, and a lot sooner than you imagine it will. You know a FEW people who are rarities and you imagine it was because of some self-made virtue, when it was just accident and genetics and the wear and tear the body sustains by living. Most young people are in DEEP denial about this and really don't want to hear they too will get old, and that this will happen long before they die. What I'm suggesting is that we can save the world from the twin travails of climate change and peak oil by marketing bicycles with aerodynamic weather shells that are battery operated and use 5% the energy of a 2.5 ton car, and that they could be available in under a year if someone young were to decide to make money and save the world. Otherwise your youthful pursuit of cool performance equipment is like fiddling while Rome burns, or rearranging the deck chairs while the Titanic goes down.
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bluebull2006 Velcro or elastic loops work fine. I don't think duct tape corrects much more aerodynamics than it spoils.
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hitssquad They are now nearing 400 ppm. While that's not doubling very recently, it IS since we started using coal in a big way in the industrial revolution. And just because your understanding of chemistry and physics is so poor that you think "Aw, that little teensy amount in the air couldn't do all that!", you seem not to realize that CO2 is like BLACK DYE in the IR region of the spectrum, and that a rather small percentage of it in air blocks IR ALMOST COMPLETELY!! If your eyes SAW in infrared you would think even a small percentage in air was DENSE BLACK SMOKE!! Now go get a fucking education, dumbass!
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2Awesome Absolutely. I argued that the CO2 concentration is very small, as fractional numbers go, but FAR from meaningless. That's what HE said, or implied facetiously.
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manoman0 He wishes to declare the truth to be nonsense and declines to prove it. While you're at it deny the Holocaust and Evolution if you're a complete idiot.
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manoman0 You're an idiot.
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Van Litespeed No, I'm talking about people who are projecting their ignorance on others, as you just did.
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hitssquad Your figures and mine are both within the brackets of responsible estimates in the climate science community. The CO2 couldn't rise if we weren't emitting excess that the earth's photosynthesis couldn't absorb, and it would slowly decrease, but the effects of the already higher than normal CO2 would persist and have ever increasing effect for hundreds of years. It would be bad, but survivable, If we continue to emit an excess, however, survivability as a species is by no means certain. Either we would reach a catastrophic tipping point and destroy most large scale life on the planet, or we would cause the death of billions of humans by drought and starvation and the destruction of humankind's major coastal and low-lying cities..
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Vincent van 't Laar Okay, I confess I didn't mean to be so hard on you guys, but do start thinking about the needs of society. We need a two or three wheeled electric vehicle that is very light and efficient, and can keep the rain and snow off grandma. A velomobile is too expensive, another jet-setter's toy. All we need is a light shell, think doped fabric, on a thin flexible frame around a durable tadpole trike or recumbent bicycle. Add hub motor and batteries and you got it. And pedaling might be good for you, but it won't get people out of cars, so think of what will!
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Samurailord Load of crap to justify racy rich people's toys. When you set about designing a product you do NOT first build something sporty and "cool" that barely resembles it. At that rate it's a wonder that we have ANYTHING that works for consumers. Think how much farther advanced we'd be if we actually set about building what people needed, instead of filling their heads with dreams of glorious crap that doesn't actually do what the hype says, You want to sell them a piece of sleek crap that isn't aerodynamic, but is overpowered for its safety features, and if they actually run it full out they'll either kill themselves, someone else, or wind up in prison. Stupid. And don't tell me about seat belts that aren't even 4-point restraints and air bags that blow your face off. Had enough of marketing.
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alfamonk If the problem you were trying to solve was a big asteroid heading for earth, then a mission to Mars WOULD be pointless garbage. That's what this is like, viz, global warming.
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alfamonk You can not care at all if you like, but the energy problem won't be solved by you telling older people they can't ride to work rather than sweating and getting heart attacks, They won't do it and then the CO2 will hit 1000 and they won't care because they figure they'll be dead, and they won't care about you who don't care, so fuck you anyway. Realize ultimate reality, people would rather the species died than live that way. So pay attention to the extant need!
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johnception Think horsies, dipstick. But we're fresh out of those and you have to leave them running all the time. Better think low energy vehicles.
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DeFran Lucas Batteries are cheaper than tune-ups. Electric motors get 5 TIMES the mileage for the cost compared to gasoline. And fossil damages the world, or hadn't you heard?
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DeFran Lucas Oh, you're talking about those little noisy pieces of shit that burn oil. They'll make them illegal soon, like they did 2-stroke motorbikes.
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***** Doesn't matter how cheap if it stinks, pollutes and is too noisy.
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flip inheck Doesn't have to when we use a lot less of it. That's what ultralight vehicles are all about.
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T0BBi94 This is where I came in: "Meaningless garbage, Quit playing with young athlete performance toy crap and give us superlight electric bicycles and tricycles with weather shells that your grandmother can use, or else people are going to destroy the world because they have no other way to live in the modern world. Why are you wasting your time and energy for this shit while the world burns?" All it takes is light battery electric recumbent bicycles with a weather shell made of doped fabric or eurothane nylon fabric on a very thin flexible frame. Add a stereo and good safety lighting and you have a vehicle your grandmother can sit comfortably upon that goes 35 - 40 mph and a range of 25 miles. and in enclosed comfort with just winter clothes. It uses 100 times less fuel/power than a car. Saves the world. Get rich selling them,
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T0BBi94 I'm retired. I haven't the energy or time for such things, nor the means. I DO have and ride an electric recumbent bicycle, and I have collected the materials to build a shell for it, if I ever get the chance, since after working as an electronic engineer for decades, but being denied employment in my field, probably because of age, though they wouldn't say that so I could sue them, I am now working running a store, and that takes up most of my time. Since when cannot someone suggest an effort they can't begin themselves and not have some immature young smirking asshole suggest that they do it all, when they are no longer able to do? The validity of my suggestion has nothing whatsoever to do with my inability to carry it out myself. Or are you just an ignorant posturing little asshole?
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T0BBi94 These suggestions, based on a life of analysis, is what I DO ABOUT IT!! If you don't like it, tough shit.
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Gus Schultz The Apollo/Lander computers were a huge achievement, but merely fooling with performance bicycle equipment that has little practical use and isn't technically that advanced instead of working for the needs of our society is quite a bit less significant. The people striving for fastest bicycle aren't pioneering much engineering, just applying cut and paste solutions off the shelf. What I've suggested is eminently do-able without ANY research and much technical development, and could save the world.
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Gus Schultz I don't care if we have both, as long as we have the other.
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tiffsaver Only morons leave their caplock on. The bikes I'm speaking of have no need of super-sophisticated development.
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tiffsaver You're not reading for comprehension, The bikes are already in existence, they are called LWB recumbents, the batteries and motors are already perfected for them. The shell can be made out of doped fabric on a thin tubing frame. You don't need more than that. This is NOT "rocket science".
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John Smiths Oh, you're one of THOSE idiots. You're kind have been wrong every time, no reason to believe you're not just wrong and stupid again.
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tiffsaver You are a complete and utter moron. Get help.
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A Mushroom Commentator You're a very immature young fool. You imagine you shall always enjoy your current undoubted good state of health because you exercise, Wait till you find out that it's the exercise that wears your body out so that you're unable to do what you can do now when you're old. Wait till you find out that you get old and feeble no matter how hard you try, until you can't try anymore. Wait till you find out how stupid you were to blame people for laziness when you wake up and find you can't do that anymore. Wait till you start putting on weight eating the same things you do now and your cells are starving because you're now diabetic. Wait till just standing hurts so much you can barely think straight, Then YOUR children and grandchildren will be just so sure in their stupid little minds that you were just lazy and they would NEVER let THAT happen to them Wait till they think old people just walk funny, and never realize that they walk that way BECAUSE IT HURTS!! And THEN you can wonder why none of you idiots addressed real human need so we could save the climate, because if you don't it will be YOU driving a 2-ton steel hulk to the doctor and have to sit down twice to cross the parking lot. Instead of wasting time building strong young man toys that you won't be able to ride to the store or the doctor's, better build some electric bikes for the older folks who you will be one of sooner than you can ever imagine.
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Michael Harding Which, of course, is why chunky pro athletes are the ones who have osteoarthritis and then get fat and it;s the skinny kids with glasses who never went out for sports who are still cycling to work in their fifties. Any orthopedist can correct you, but you won't listen. If you want everybody to act like skinny guys do, that won't happen. We are built differently with different advantages, it;s called variation in the species.
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A Mushroom Commentator Ewww, how SENSITIVE! Threatened your playtoys, did I? Tough shit kid. You may well live longer than I, but don't count on being anywhere near in the same state of health you are now much longer than I was. I rode a bicycle to work for many years, and that was after and because my hip joints gave out from fast-walking, which was my personal sport before that. Then I rode until they got even worse, and now I need an electric bicycle. And yes, I've gained weight, but that happens when you can't walk for exercise, almost no matter how little you eat. You have the delusion that exercise will always improve your endurance at your sport, WRONGO!! After your body has begun to slow in its ability to self-repair, damage from exercise exceeds the body's ability to repair it before your next workout, and it goes downhill from there. If you think you can prevent that through more exercise, you're an immature idiot indulging in a delusion. What you'll want then is a good electric bicycle with lots of amenities to keep you warm and out of the weather, so you can still pedal on the straight and level but not have to climb hills anymore, and only in that way will you sell bicycles to the general public to save us from climate change. If you can't suck it up and do that they will just ignore you, and you'll STILL get old.
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A Random Commentator Yes, you'll live longer, but you're still just putting off the last stretch of your life where you're decrepit to a degree that will astonish you, and you'll find that you need things to be designed to help you just live. To live in an ugly condition is not, or very seldom, a choice, as you will soon discover. If you, as you say, "just hate ignorant, dim-witted and close-minded assholes", then stop being one.
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Michael Harding Anecdotes. don't you love 'em, except they prove nothing. You can't tell me why MOST runners drop dead more often than others, look it up, they DO, or whether your GF COULD run because he lived that long, or whether he lived that long because he ran. Most people, especially athletes, get strokes from exercising in their later years, strokes statistically accompany exercise. Think how much longer he might have lived if he hadn't run, etc. Why he might have made it to 110!! As for swimming, fine, but it isn't that much exercise. Walking is better for you than running, ask an orthopedist. But athletes who waste their day exercising wouldn't have a computer or cell phone to tell each other about it without sedentary engineers and physicists like me, Likely you'd be chasing a kudu naked in Africa, or you might never have come down from the trees. But now, AFTER your hips give out and you get some dread form of arthritis with a long name, like most of us do, hey, get back to us and we'll say we told you so. Moron.
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Michael Harding You'd better go do some research, because unless you're talking about the very few people who are 500+ pounds, you're not talking about the vast majority of people. An interesting factoid is that people called mildly obese under some medical criteria live LONGER than average. You must be a teenager who makes no sense and pulls shit out of his ass.
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Michael Harding You're an idiot. How would you ever know you were "not fat because you want to be" just because you aren't fat? If you WERE fat you wouldn't even try to make such a claim, and if you aren't fat then how in the fuck do you know WHY you aren't? You're taking credit for something over which you have no fucking control and imagining you do, and that everyone else could be thin if they followed you around and did what YOU do, which has been disproved in numerous real studies!! You were lucky and you healed up. Physical therapy helped, I'm sure, but so did your age and state of health, which older people do NOT have going for them. Nobody "gives up" they just get old, and you will too.
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Michael Harding Age 7 to 11 isn't even adolescent, The body changes monstrously at puberty. You're beginning to sound like a desperate creationist boob defending Noah's Ark. Go read something and learn more.
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Patrick Noble I did already, but I'm too old to pursue it as a business, now it's time for YOU to figure it out.
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Ratfink820 No idea what you're talking about.
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***** Europe has cities where people live near work and shops. They have mass transit, and most of the people you see on bikes are young and think they will be young forever because of their virtue of bicycling. They are wrong but don't know it. They will be older soon and riding the buses. I've seen Europe, people over 40 or 50 ride the bus or drive. Only the young ride bikes. There are fewer cars per person only because of your splendid mass transit and bikes for the young, who seem to buy cars just as soon as they can afford it, which is usually not very soon. In the US, people live too far from work, we have superhighways instead of mass transit and trains. This has encouraged people who become unemployed to seek jobs ever farther from home. And it also encouraged them to avoid the stinking cities here, people have moved to the suburbs, which are tens of miles from work downtown where the poor and criminal are forced to live. The good schools are in the suburbs, and work isn't. Taking on this entrenched situation is daunting, to try to persuade your friends and neighbors to sweat or freeze on the way to work is asking to be hated and ostracized as a nutcake. Unless we build ultralight enclosed electric vehicles we can use on our existing freeways, we haven't a hope of such a conversion. You won't be able to take someone who hasn't pedaled all their life and get them to do that. If you make it an option on board these ultralight vehicles you would get away with it, but otherwise it seems my countrymen would rather destroy the whole world to avoid that, because they know they'll die and leave it to their kids to fix or not. The only thing I hope for is that we run out of fuel before we run out of air and climate.
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@Astro80s I agree.
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