training wheels... training wheels.

ouch, hope the guy is ok.

And thanks for the flexi-grips link LOL. I remember that episode LOL

Pretty darn cool indeed. Although it must be said that once we took the training wheels off the bike our oldest son didn't have much trouble riding without them.

And this adds in yet another need for batteries to something that previously didn't need them. Which is CRAP!

Pretty nifty, although I'm gonna demand the same awesomeness from my kid that I performed myself. Learned to cycle with the first try without any wimpy training wheels!

Hey thanks for the *promotion!


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*promote the inventiveness

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Gyro, Gyroscope, interbike, training, wheels' to 'Gyro, Gyroscope, interbike, training, wheels, gyrowheel' - edited by JAPR

My mind is in the gutter, and its a two legged penis inspecting the train wheels.

Put some training wheels on it and I'm THERE!

(train) *wheels and (choo-choo) *engineering

people ought to know
train
*wheels
are tapered to keep the train on the track
...to become full-fledged members of the fraternity.

Dutch translation:

There you are, your "Blankenburger". Have a nice meal..
...
Yes yes, the train!!!


*wheels

>> ^cybrbeast:
Poolcleaner I do think you miss the point of VATS in Fallout. Fallout is an RPG based on a turn-based RPG. It's not necessarily about quick reflexes, it's about tactics. Bringing the best equipment into the battle and using it strategically. Going into VATS gives you the pause of a turn based games and lets you think about your actions. Sure it can be quite easy, but there's harder difficulty and mods coming out on the PC.


Naw, I get it. The reason I mention Fallout 3 is because it's an example of one of the MANY games that cater to newbies. (Fallout 3 being an example of a GOOD game that does this.)

Bottom line, I think this video is dead wrong. The people who don't play video games are not looking for an easy game, they just don't want to play video games. (If you think video games are hard now, you're dumb.) I grew up playing hundreds of games that I could never beat, yet I continued to play them because I liked to play. I know A LOT of people who just don't care about games. Do you think they even bothered to wonder if a game was too difficult? No, because they don't care.

Looking at demographics and percentages of people who do anything at all is so gimmicky to me. It's like he's comparing video games to television. It's the silent victim in this horrid review. Why have gamers not exceeded the television audience? It's rather silly to do these comparisons. From the perspective of the aficionado, you could say the same thing about anything, really. Skateboards versus Basketball: Only 20% of people skateboard despite the rise of Tony Hawk as a popular sports figure.

Holy jesus, why is skateboarding less popular than basketball? Why can I walk into any Wal Mart and buy a Spalding basketball, sponsored by the NBA, yet I need to go to a specialty store to get a skateboard that doesn't have trucks made out of fisher Price plastic. Oh, I know! It's because skateboarding is too hard!

Skateboarding is pretty hard, but those who are going to skateboard will skateboard despite the difficulty. So the answer is to dumb down the experience? Put some training wheels on the fucker? As if training wheels on bicycles weren't bad enough. Did I use training wheels? No, I scraped up my fuckin' knees, bleeding upon the cement like Jesus Christ down the streets of Jerusalem.

Television and (perhaps basketball was the improper comparison) baseball are learned behaviors, taught in more households than video games. AND it's accepted by more families -- though video games are slowly making their way, the violence/sex issue has some families in the closet. Many, many, many families grow up around the boob tube. Hell, that's where video games became and remain popular: in front of the television. We see people watch it, we watch it, other people watch us watch it, we play our video games on it. Also, sports and television = match made in heaven. I grew up in a television family; almost everyone in the family watches television, talks about it, breathes it, it permeates all aspects of life. Oh, did you see what's his face on American Idol? Oh, no! I can't believe he was kicked off the island -- he made such good soufflé!

It really isn't surprising at all that video games haven't touched the same demographics as television: Not everyone wants to play a game. Most people just wanna stare at something and not think. And when they are thinking, they're thinking that video games are for nerds that kill their classmates in bouts of gnerd rage. Not that that's true, but I understand the people and that's what they think.

(Also, if you have ever played World of Warcraft, you already know what types of people are drawn into a game when it's dumbed down. Do not want.)

It's amusing any time race-obsessed liberals accuse conservatives of being racist. For liberals, it's ALL about race and class ALL the time. Qualifications, merit, hard work, all meaningless. All that matters is skin color or gender. It's really too much to examine, but the core belief underlying liberalism is that America is a mean, unfair, racist place where no minority can make it without training wheels from liberals.

This McCain supporter indeed made an inaccurate comparison. Tiger knows how to play golf, has been doing it for almost all his life and excels at it. Obama is an eloquent lightweight who is told what to say. If the messiah had any brains or thoughts of his own he'd be a conservative. As it stands he represents the best possible presentation of a failed philosophy and political party and not even all of the drive-by media, who now freely admit they work for the taxocrats, can make him look good.

no, I won that one. I was next and I 1-upped him with a triple backflip. Try to find that on youtube...you can't because my awesomeness broke many of the cameras.

...that and I had training wheels so it's kinda embarrassing.

I wonder if they can get him to ride it without training wheels. For that matter, have we gotten any primates besides ourselves to ride a bike?

Edit: Answered my own question. A Youtube search for "monkey bicycle" turns up a few monkeys riding a bike without training wheels.

Was this unearthed in a recent archaeological dig? I haven't seen this video since the interwab was still on training wheels.