I know exactly where you were...that's belmont park (with a rollercoaster, no?). That gyro place is bomb. And that wave machine is RIGHT next to thewavehouse where on Sundays they do a house party in the afternoon til about 10. If it wasn't for the eminent hangover on mondays I'd be there every sunday. I live about 3 miles away from there, wow that's really close for sifters to be to one another without tearing a hole in the sift-space continuum.

I'd say next time you're over here to hit me up, but you're probably not coming back and we probably don't want you...:P

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
some place where they had surf boards and a wave for people to surf on. It was obnoxious and also some sort of terrible radio station was there blasting shit hole music. It wasn't house music though. It was like new rock shit that I hate. It was right on the beach and right across from the best gyros ever.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
The Wave or the wavehouse? I like the wave house...

(house music + sunsets)*drugs = awesome

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i came for the gyros.
oh and the pizza

but not for that place called "The Wave". That place can suck my ass.

Fort Worth is the same way so I can't give you the golden shower that you probably deserve

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yea SD does suck post anal sex discharge, but...but...well I can't defend this fucking place.

I can't apologize for the people here because they piss me off too...and I probably piss them off. Next thing you know we're all pissing each other off and here comes a tourist like yourself that walks right into the middle of this angry piss-fest and starts crying about getting pissed on...well fuck you, who fucking invited you anyway?!

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
well Rottenseed, i was in San Diego this time last year.... water was pretty.. people were dicks.

stopped at a place by the ocean to drink a beer.... full of pricks.

So.. basically San Diego can suck my cooter. (spell check is flagging cooter and suggesting cuter.. .oh spell check you don't know how right you are...)

I did enjoy the tiny Photography Museum though.

some place where they had surf boards and a wave for people to surf on. It was obnoxious and also some sort of terrible radio station was there blasting shit hole music. It wasn't house music though. It was like new rock shit that I hate. It was right on the beach and right across from the best gyros ever.

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
The Wave or the wavehouse? I like the wave house...

(house music + sunsets)*drugs = awesome

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i came for the gyros.
oh and the pizza

but not for that place called "The Wave". That place can suck my ass.

Fort Worth is the same way so I can't give you the golden shower that you probably deserve

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yea SD does suck post anal sex discharge, but...but...well I can't defend this fucking place.

I can't apologize for the people here because they piss me off too...and I probably piss them off. Next thing you know we're all pissing each other off and here comes a tourist like yourself that walks right into the middle of this angry piss-fest and starts crying about getting pissed on...well fuck you, who fucking invited you anyway?!

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
well Rottenseed, i was in San Diego this time last year.... water was pretty.. people were dicks.

stopped at a place by the ocean to drink a beer.... full of pricks.

So.. basically San Diego can suck my cooter. (spell check is flagging cooter and suggesting cuter.. .oh spell check you don't know how right you are...)

I did enjoy the tiny Photography Museum though.

The Wave or the wavehouse? I like the wave house...

(house music + sunsets)*drugs = awesome

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i came for the gyros.
oh and the pizza

but not for that place called "The Wave". That place can suck my ass.

Fort Worth is the same way so I can't give you the golden shower that you probably deserve

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yea SD does suck post anal sex discharge, but...but...well I can't defend this fucking place.

I can't apologize for the people here because they piss me off too...and I probably piss them off. Next thing you know we're all pissing each other off and here comes a tourist like yourself that walks right into the middle of this angry piss-fest and starts crying about getting pissed on...well fuck you, who fucking invited you anyway?!

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
well Rottenseed, i was in San Diego this time last year.... water was pretty.. people were dicks.

stopped at a place by the ocean to drink a beer.... full of pricks.

So.. basically San Diego can suck my cooter. (spell check is flagging cooter and suggesting cuter.. .oh spell check you don't know how right you are...)

I did enjoy the tiny Photography Museum though.

i came for the gyros.
oh and the pizza

but not for that place called "The Wave". That place can suck my ass.

Fort Worth is the same way so I can't give you the golden shower that you probably deserve

In reply to this comment by rottenseed:
Yea SD does suck post anal sex discharge, but...but...well I can't defend this fucking place.

I can't apologize for the people here because they piss me off too...and I probably piss them off. Next thing you know we're all pissing each other off and here comes a tourist like yourself that walks right into the middle of this angry piss-fest and starts crying about getting pissed on...well fuck you, who fucking invited you anyway?!

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
well Rottenseed, i was in San Diego this time last year.... water was pretty.. people were dicks.

stopped at a place by the ocean to drink a beer.... full of pricks.

So.. basically San Diego can suck my cooter. (spell check is flagging cooter and suggesting cuter.. .oh spell check you don't know how right you are...)

I did enjoy the tiny Photography Museum though.

>> ^MarineGunrock:
Dumb. This would be so much cheaper and energy efficient if you just put four fucking wheels on it.


Building a "teeter-bot" is a common entry-level robotics project - you have to program up a "brain" that reads sensor data (the gyro/accelerometer), and reacts to the data accordingly. Depending on scale, you could spend about a grand doing it all from scratch. This builder had the mindset of "if I'm spending that kind of money on a robotics project, it'd be nice if I could at least ride it." And I'm inclined to agree with that mindset.

>> ^grinter:
ok, so what keeps a monorail on track?

Gyro monorail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail
Also very ingenious.

I used to live in PB, from 84-93, where Rottenseed is so lucky to be living now. I remember the Red Onion, when the Mission Beach coaster wasn't even operating and hell, The Black was my church. (It still is. ) We used to wake & bake, then go for weekend bike rides while I lived in Clairemont, down through PB, into LJ and make it to the glider port overlooking Black's Beach. Then we'd ride back down through University City, stop and get gyros at the mall and get back home in the late afternoon.

Man, I miss it there. You never know how lucky you have it until you think back, you know?

Oh yeah, and Rubio's is the shit! I'm lucky enough to have a few in Vegas. Will have to try those.

I don't know if it would really reduce the ability to make turns -- after all, bike wheels act as gyroscopes anyway, that's how bikes stay vertical. The principle of a gyro is that a sideways torque on the axis causes a reaction at 90° to the applied torque, so when you lean a bike it turns and vice versa.

But I agree, MGR, I definitely don't see this being useful for high-end riders. Might make a good safety feature for kids' bikes though.

Andre Perkowski got such a great response on his Retro Batman series, “Silent Shadow of the Bat-Man,” (and part two) that he produced a three-part serial as a follow-up called “Arkham After Midnight,” of which this is the first chapter, “Mark of The Mad Hatter”

Big globs of setup concerning Arkham Asylum… madness! surreal delirium!
Hallucinations! Screaming lunatics! Obsessive supervillains! That amazing
triumph of conceit over technology, the incredible “Bat-Gyro.” All this and the
trippiest final two minutes you ever needed to see.

>> ^BenjaminFranklin2u:
Wow... superhuman abilities. I don't think I could go that slow and follow that line on a bike.

You could if you had strong "gyros"(?) spinning like he does. You see them at work through his chest in some of the shots.

>> ^boisetech:
Gyrocopter

You are correct. I suspected it when I saw how the stick was shaking and then I saw a picture posted above. I still can't see the whole aircraft. This really needs a back story and more pictures.
Edit: The pictures I saw are of a delta wing hang-glider style craft. It is completely different. No reason not to think it is a gyro-copter, though.

If you want to be precise it's the moment of inertia, associated with the angular momentum of the wheels which gives rise to the gyro effect. In simpler terms, it's the tendancy for rotating objects to resist changes to their axis of rotation.

It would seem it's more than 'evidence to suggest'. Also from the wiki

Comments from Lelouch prove that the vehicle that carried the camera was his Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9.[1] A picture was released of Lelouch working with the gyro stabilized camera on his Mercedes. This model, which could reach a top speed of 235 km/h (146 mph), was only available with a 3-speed automatic transmission. Yet, one can hear gear changes up into 5th, as well as heel-and-toe down-shifting with a high-revving engine indicating speeds of well over 200 km/h. Calculations made by several independent groups showed that the car never exceeded 140 km/h (85 mph)[1], while another[2] estimated that the car had peaked at 220 km/h (136.7 mph). Lelouch himself claimed that the top speed achieved was over 200 km/h, somewhere between 230 km/h and 240 km/h.[3]It is suggested that the sound was dubbed with the noise of Lelouch's 275GTB, which has a corresponding number of gears and a similar engine note.

A May 2006 making-of-the-rendezvous documentary[4] indicates that Lelouch himself was the driver, that the car driven was the Mercedes, although the sound track is from a Ferrari. One observer was posted close to the Louvre palace at a blind junction (archway) to assist the driver.

Sorry OP, the music is AWESOME.

As for the gyro, i want one.

Musics worth an upvote for making me smile

Airwolf was great in its day, but aged so badly One for the memories, not to be rewatched...

Gyros have been around a fair while. I caught a snapshot of a Bond on a few weeks back, one with Sean Connery in, and he was flying a Gyro in it back then. His had all kinds of gadgets too