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Bell Dashboard 100, re-enter odo numbers?
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 22:44:53 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 7/31/2017 8:46 PM, John B. wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:50:16 -0500, AMuzi wrote: On 7/31/2017 12:02 PM, Joerg wrote: On 2017-07-31 07:49, wrote: On Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 9:53:35 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 7/29/2017 2:09 PM, Joerg wrote: I'd never use Reed or anything mechanical in those, especially in an environment that is prone to vibration. Like ... a mountain bike. :-) Joerg would never use what every current cyclometer company (and therefore almost every mountain biker) uses without problems, because his situation is just so gnarly! Classic Joerg! Actually it's classic Chinese manual. Surprisingly the Bell manual is written in very good English, doesn't look light "Designed in Outsourcia" at all. My guess is that their software engineers simply messed up or they didn't hold design reviews, or both. One possible explanation, "Our new vendor doesn't have anyone who could write a manual even in Chinese. Get the intern to clean up some online manual and then print that." I've always attributed it to "My brother-in-law needs a job and he took English in school". But more seriously, way back when Japanese manuals were as incomprehensive as current Chinese manuals I approached a number of Japanese companies with the idea of acting as a translator of their "English" manuals into "Modern English" and not a single company was interested as they all thought that *their* manual was perfect. Perhaps you needed a more forceful approach. Someone may correct me but IIRC, Jobst Brandt got his foot in the door at Porsche using exactly that same proposal. Jobst was not known for being diplomatic or shy. In that instance, that probably worked well for him. I can't comment on Jobst but I was approaching Japanese companies and explaining that the average "American" was having problems understanding the manual and that I could translate then from either Japanese or English into "Commonly Used English", I believe I termed it. I never got to a discussion of "how much" as the companies I contacted felt that their manuals/instruction sheets were perfectly fine and while they were, as usual, very polite it was obviously a No Sale. From what little I remember, Jobst was essentially a "native German speaker" and took his discharge in Germany and joined Porsche as a draftsman. -- Cheers, John B. |
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