I can't quite make out whether or not he actually has the drum connected up to his axle, that black strip running next to the green support bar might be a friction belt?

Even if it's not connected he could still get two benefits from having it fitted:
1) A psychological placebo-like effect, due to his belief that it helps.
2) An increase in the number of customers he can attract, due to standing out from the other rickshaws.

Wow this kid's good! And yeah, no whiny Axl to fuck it up. Always hated his voice.

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Ha. You said it brother. This was actually a lot more fun to watch than I thought it would be.>> ^thinker247:
You know what made this even better?
Axl Rose wasn't in it.

You know what made this even better?

Axl Rose wasn't in it.

Boo fuckin' hoo for Axl! Hey, he wanted to be a big famous rock star, now he is (not). Deal with it. Sorry that's the price you pay for fame, or lack thereof.

Axl Rose was, is, and always will be a punk-ass bitch. He was always starting fights with other rock musicians back in the day too. Vince Neal and him have had an ongoing battle for years. I think even at one point Vince got sick of his mouth challenged him, Axl did not take up his offer. That's AFTER talking a lot of smack about Vince. Now he's just bitter because everyone from Guns and Roses has a career but him. His last album (Chinese Democracy) flopped horribly. i heard some stuff from it. I couldn't stand to listen to it, but I have never liked his nasally, whiny voice to begin with so I might have been biased.

A couple quotes from Vince on the subject during an interview with Robin Leech:

“Axl let Guns fans down with Chinese Democracy, (fans) “have just gotten sick of Rose and his antics.”

Vince even claimed that Axl canceled a tour in support of the record. For (Chinese Democracy) to fail was pretty crazy after so many years of being recorded. Then the tour got canceled.

"A buddy of mine went to go play guitar for him. They rehearsed for three months, and Axl never once turned up. … He’s been doing that for many years. Finally, I think the fans just went, ‘F*ck it -- can’t do this anymore.’ You can’t be a fan when you can’t see the band.”

> Notice the "tipping jack" popping out on the rear of the vehicle

Thats the axle of course...

Seriously though you can really tell the window and windowframe of the car has about as much mass as that air baloon they hit it with.

As a former half-owner of a used mobile home, I find that dude's blunt sales pitch to be refreshing and entertaining at the same time. Your average trailer house "realtor" tries to dress up and distract you from the fact that you're about to buy a decaying particle board and plywood box, with weird hardware (all screws are square head, not phillips or flat, etc.) and a thin aluminum skirting to hide the axles and keep racoons from living under your house (unsuccessfully, in my case).

In spite of those problems, it was a nice place to live and share with a buddy as I was going to college. Cheaper to own and then sell than to rent an apartment for 4+ years, and vastly more comfortable and private than a college dorm building.

>> ^potchi79:
No, he's an idiot for assuming people are readily drinking a cocktail containing kerosene, sulfuric acid and axle grease.

Well, to be honest, I was skeptical when I first heard that kids breathe air-conditioner gas to get high, that drugs are regularly mixed with rat poison or cow de-wormer and that some people like to strangle themselves while masturbating.

At the risk of being called old at the age of 26, I'll say that while in the '80s it was the most preposterous recipe for a drink conceivable, with kids these days, who knows

>> ^demon_ix:
>> ^fjules:
Yeah, he is idiot because he hasn't been on internet for long enough to know what means. Arrogant bastards.

No, that doesn't make him an idiot, that just makes him a noob. He is, however, an idiot for declaring a half-speculation about an internet phenomenon on TV when a little research could have revealed his mistake and saved him quite a bit of professional ridicule.


No, he's an idiot for assuming people are readily drinking a cocktail containing kerosene, sulfuric acid and axle grease.

>> ^AeroMechanical:
Now, I'd like to see one that's similarly explained but for a limited slip differential, because that I still understand very well.


That would be a great video, but the principle is simple, if you understand the basic differential. The main idea is that the two half shafts (the left and right half of the rear axle) are connected to each other with, for example, a clutch pack. This clutch allows some differences in speed between the two shafts, but begins grabbing when the difference in speed is too large. Hence the inside wheel doesn't skid while turning but the power is never going to just one wheel.

Hmm, I wonder if you could get a working system by taking a solid rear axle, taking a bit out of the middle, replacing that missing bit with a clutch pack and then just powering one of the wheels... It should work like a one-wheel-drive car until the slip is too big and the clutch grabs. Sure, it wouldn't be great, but easy and cheap to build.

I think that "Lazurs" or GPS would be, by definition, not human powered. Unless maybe he has a little crank on there or something.

I haven't used a bow since I was a little kid but the thing that that always weirded me out was the string-puller thingy. I'm not saying that this guy is untalented because he uses tech. I actually think all that tech is pretty freaking ninja. I just think it ruins that romantic image I had as a kid of being able to hit anything with nothing but a bow and an arrow. Shit, even back then I was using a compound bow.

Really, I guess I was just trying to say that it's still a bow despite all the tech because the guy is still doing all the physical work.

Wait, I already said that.

Oh, and I see:
A level, string pull, arm-guard, stabilizer, arc-string suppressor, axle dampeners and a split-yoke cable. Not to mention all the elements that make it a modern, compound bow.

Here's an anecdote: about 20 years ago, a Lamborghini tractor was stuck in a nearby field, couldn't get out of the mud. So they called in a proper Deutz tractor to pull it out. Unfortunatly, the Deutz tore the Lambo in half below the cabin, right between the axles.

This is nice art, but the thing could never be realized as shown.
Well, maybe realized as a small plastic barbie van.

says its hybrid, but there's no place for motor, batteries, gas tank, axles, etc. heck they even removed the spare tire. but woohoo! we got 4 folding chairs in the engine compartment.

With all of the body panels that fold out (i.e. provide no structural support), I'd really love to see this thing do a crash test

Who camps in a vehicle with 3" ground clearance? hope you are camping in walmart parking lots, cause that ain't making it down any dirt roads.

Where's the porta-potty? every RV has one of those at least...

I generally like int'l music, but this was like someone screaming at you in swahili. not pleasant at all.

>> ^jacobrecker:
wow i think you are right. hmm the first clip shows a wheel (maybe 2 wheels attached with a small axle) moving and then the plane collapses down drastically. the second clip shows 1 wheel move and the plane doesnt collapse down. strange stufg
>> ^NicoleBee:
Ummm.. The two clips they show seem to be of different events.



I'm guessing the video of the tire falling off was the correct one, but someone on the news floor thought it wasn't exciting enough and had to show unrelated footage of a planes landing gear collapsing? I wonder if it's even of the same model plane. It's almost certainly not from the night crash they describe later.

I tentatively chalk this one up to lazy/irresponsible newscasting.. But it's still a good video.

wow i think you are right. hmm the first clip shows a wheel (maybe 2 wheels attached with a small axle) moving and then the plane collapses down drastically. the second clip shows 1 wheel move and the plane doesnt collapse down. strange stufg

>> ^NicoleBee:
Ummm.. The two clips they show seem to be of different events.