We now know the exact limit of 'how low can you go' until he swaps out for shorter handle bars.
*skillful

Pretty sure that's highway 1, not 101. ;-)
I wonder what forest that is. Amazingly, those trees looked a little small to me when compared to the ones in my neighborhood.

When I was a teenager I had a good racing road bike that I found a set of narrow knobbies for and I used to ride it down dirt trails. It's not easy. Those handle bars are narrow and positioned low, making it all too easy to just go over the front. Impressive skill this guy has, and balls of hardened titanium.
*promote

Hmm.....habits I picked up while growing up. I can't say they were gotten from any one source, line, or context...but I had I still struggle to unlearn them.

Extreme independence, this mainly applies to learning in school. If I couldn't learn it in class or own my own, then I failed. I'd say this was a mix of bad teachers, parents who weren't familiar with the material, lack of easy and discrete tutoring options (although I can't say I would have used them), and the attitude that you should be able to do it on your own which was picked up along the way. This goes over into the next point.

Asking for help before you've tried for yourself. Now this is one of those things where it could go either way. Trying on your own might let you figure out a way that works for you, but it might also give you bad habits that don't carry over into other things. Mostly to do with mental tasks, but it also spreads into physical tasks. Like moving something too heavy or too large for one person, end up hurting yourself or breaking something and being chastised for the attempt that was almost implied you should make on your own for YEARS for everything. Or something as simple as trying to fix your bike, and ending up with it done wrong that could go spectacularly bad, like brakes that don't work well enough or a chain that breaks or skips and busting your face on your handle bars when you really stand on it. This is something where I still struggle today as an adult as to when asking for help or expecting help with something is "too soon" and getting varied results back. People who say "Why didn't you come to me sooner?" versus "That's easy! I can't believe you didn't try...." I think it's just so common with men that it's almost overlooked. And it leads into seeing people getting help as seeing them as stupid/weak/etc...then perpetuates the cycle. I don't know it's more of a US culture thing or what. Because I used to see a lot of foreign students in college that would work together on everything...I always viewed it as cheating and in some cases it was cheating by the rules of the college but overlooked in their cases.

So the "help" thing kind of leads into injuries, falling, etc. It's embarrassing to fall of course. But I can remember breaking my arm and having to walk home because my mom didn't believe I'd hurt myself. Or cases where I was having an asthma attack at school and told to just wait it out because I'd already used my rescue inhaler. Partly due to ignorance of the nurse or person involved, but also because there's just a mistrust of kids trying to "game" the system to get out of things. Admittedly some did this, I however did not, and I quickly learned to just tolerate all of the discomfort and distractions of various issues that may come up during the school day. Which led to a day where I was so sick I spent the entire day in the nurses office while they tried to contact a parent and had to ride the bus home flat on my back in a seat trying not to puke. Then with more apparent injuries, "walk it off" was and is the common thing you hear. It's holds some truth, but when your taught to put up with it.. I had a dislocated knee cap for a couple days. It was so bad the night before it popped back into place at school that I was using a crutch to get to the bathroom. Dislocated thumb that popped back into place when I fell trying to play football. I mean it sounds like I had horrible parents, but it was just so ingrained into me that if I could walk...I was fine.


Lots more stuff...but one that I'm not sure how to phrase properly. Anything to do with touching that might be seen as affectionate or showing concern. Pats on the back giving or receiving to or from another guy. Helping someone up could almost be seen as an insult at times. I want to say lots of eastern Euro cultures (which I could be entirely wrong here on the location) express themselves much more than US physically, and it's pretty alien for me to see given how it was and is for me aging. Of course there are times where I feel like I SHOULD do it, but the act of it is ingrained to be wrong.......? I guess that sounds as close to as I'm going to get with it.

But yeah, I see where they are going with the video. I also think that part of it is because opposite sex teacher/nurse/whatever showing above certain levels of care to a male/female student triggers something in the hormone addled brains that creates more problems. So in turn, adults are taught to put the kids in their box and treat them all like that to avoid the issues that might end up with you losing your job because Bobby or Susie thinks you like-like them. And in the past male teachers to male students might have been able to ignore the box, but I think with the public eye focused more on looking as being homosexual as more acceptable...the same sex teachers/etc are going to have adhere to the box thing too if they want to keep their jobs.

"..best way to [handle, bar] none."

"..reCYCLE the same TWO TIRED.."

"...by creating.."

"eXtreme"

"X"

"BM-or Xbox"


Curious how much subject priming is required for suggestions of this sort to attach.

>> ^lurgee:

from the land of the best sausage, best cars and the best beer. Germany.
note to self: search the intertubes for a sugar mama from deutschland.


If you find one, make sure she doesn't want you to do stunt bikes like this. Your nuggets would be flattened look at how they have to ride on the handle bars and such.

I think it's for No Shave November.
And it looks more Van Dykey to me.
>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Is he growing a handle bar mustache?

Is he growing a handle bar mustache?

"im good "

TROOPER ! FAWKIN TROOPER.

I have done that multiple times... never into water, my favorite is when I went over the handle bars when i thought the water puddle was shallow, so I was hopping my front end and went to make a splash, the water was deep ! a splash and a kerplunk as I flipped over the bars.

Actually, if you look very closely, he turned the handle bars.

I'm assuming he was getting ready to turn, but his mind wandered and he didn't follow through.

"It is likely that you will jump off the front of a YikeBike in an emergency braking situation – this is very easy as there are no handle bars in the way." - http://www.yikebike.com/site/node/18

So the bike is safe and I still hit my impending obstacle. Yay!

I guess a solar panelled helmet wouldn't go amiss.

According to wiki the Segway turns around using the handle bar, only forward and backward movement is possible just leaning, same as this thing. So it already does the same things the Segway does without external controls.

Brilliant! The only thing I would add is for that one handle bar to be telescoping so that when it's folded up, you can extend it out as the "carrying" handle. He seems to have to hunch over when wheeling it around.

Unfortunately, i think this either went over my head, or i simply didn't see any real conviction towards an answer of "do we have free will in a morally relevant sense?"

So i almost feel like he has been telling me things that i knew were true (assuming determinism is true) and have decided or theorised these things independantly and on my own - but without giving me the information that he seems to be presenting as new. Which i believe is that we may have free will even under determinism in a morally relevant sense.

Free will in a morally relevant sense, in my head, is translated to "Are we responsible for our actions given a deterministic universe?" And the argument never seems to get into swing. I feel i have been presented with no new information or argument to sway my opinion.

But it may have gone over my head. When discussing or listening to things like these, i have no formal education on them, but i have thought about them in my own mind for as long as i can remember. This obviously leaves me behind on terminology and such.

I don't know if i should feel proud of myself that i was pondering all this when i was 6 years old. I used to ride a bike, and wonder whether God (i wasn't religious, God was simply my all-knowing observer with infinite calculating power) would know if i was going to turn left or right. And i would wiggle the handle bars but ultimately know that, if God DID know what i was going to do (ie. if the universe was deterministic) then he would even know that i was going to make an attempt to trick him. Not because he could see the future, but because he knew the culmination of all my life experiences and that this is the decision i would make. And i even used to argue with my sister that just because she could hit a target i couldn't didn't mean that she was better, because she may have had a favourable wind, or it was fractionally warmer than when i took the shot, etc.

Or was the purpose of this to make me ask the question "Am i morally responsible in a deterministic universe?"

I think i'm a little too tired to even get out what i want to say. I also want to know why we're to assume we're in a deterministic universe when the uncertainty principle shows us that we CANNOT accurately predict a future snapshot of the universe from a snapshot of it. And if we're to also assume that the uncertainty principle is determined (if you know the right variables), then why did he actually state that the snapshot example was proven to be false when he mentioned it!?

I'd love to discuss it, if anyone knows what happened here and has the patience.

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars

Look at me, look at me
hands in the air like it's good to be
ALIVE
and I'm a famous rapper
even when the paths're all crookedy
I can show you how to do-si-do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart the remote control
And I can almost put it back together
I can tie a knot in a cherry stem
I can tell you about Leif Ericson
I know all the words to "De Colores"
And "I'm Proud to be an American"
Me and my friend saw a platypus
Me and my friend made a comic book
And guess how long it took
I can do anything that I want cuz, look:

I can keep rhythm with no metronome
No metronome
No metronome

I can see your face on the telephone
On the telephone
On the telephone

Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
ALIVE
In such a small world
All curled up with a book to read
I can make money open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine sixty four
Miles to a gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make computers survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you wanna buy a product
Movers shakers and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
I can lead a nation with a microphone
With a microphone
With a microphone
I can split the atoms of a molecule
Of a molecule
Of a molecule

Look at me
Look at me
Driving and I won't stop
And it feels so good to be
Alive and on top
My reach is global
My tower secure
My cause is noble
My power is pure
I can hand out a million vaccinations
Or let'em all die in exasperation
Have'em all grilled leavin lacerations
Have'em all killed by assassination
I can make anybody go to prison
Just because I don't like'em and
I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite
By satellite
and I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope
Through a telescope
and I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust
In a holocaust

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handle bars
No handlebars

I can ride my bike with no handlebars
No handlebars
No handlebars