"City Bike" Hot New Category at Bicycle Industry Show

On Oct 1, 11:56 am, Michael Press wrote:
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, (Tom Keats) wrote:

Thank you, I will. At least, the mechanised/motorized ones
that slide out like a CD player tray. I also like to make
fun of electric toothbrushes, electric backscratchers,
electric card shufflers, etc.

Actually electric toothbrushes can be useful as they generally will do a
better job then you can do by hand.

That's a crock o' you-know-what, and you know it.

No, it is not. I am good with a manual toothbrush
and better with the electric toothbrush. This is
not about convenience, it is my health.

I work at brushing my teeth and discuss technique
with my dentist all the time.

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I gotta say, this is about the least-surprising thing I've ever heard
you say.

I don't doubt your veracity for a second; it just sounds like a very
Michael Press thing to say.

Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Oct 1, 11:56 am, Michael Press wrote:
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I work at brushing my teeth and discuss technique
with my dentist all the time.

I gotta say, this is about the least-surprising thing I've ever heard
you say.

I don't doubt your veracity for a second; it just sounds like a very
Michael Press thing to say.

I do not believe for a second that Michael Press discusses tooth
brushing technique ALL the time with his dentist. [Exit pedantic mode]

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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
A Real Cyclist [TM] keeps at least one bicycle in the bedroom.

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Hank Wirtz wrote:
On Oct 1, 11:56 am, Michael Press wrote:
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(Tom Keats) wrote:
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Ryan Cousineau writes:
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Don Wiss wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, (Tom Keats) wrote:
Thank you, I will. At least, the mechanised/motorized ones
that slide out like a CD player tray. I also like to make
fun of electric toothbrushes, electric backscratchers,
electric card shufflers, etc.

Actually electric toothbrushes can be useful as they generally will do a
better job then you can do by hand.

That's a crock o' you-know-what, and you know it.

No, it is not. I am good with a manual toothbrush
and better with the electric toothbrush. This is
not about convenience, it is my health.

I work at brushing my teeth and discuss technique
with my dentist all the time.

I gotta say, this is about the least-surprising thing I've ever heard
you say.

It is good to hear that I keep it fresh.

I don't doubt your veracity for a second; it just sounds like a very
Michael Press thing to say.

Thanks.

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Michael Press

On Oct 1, 5:16 pm, Paul O wrote:


I miss my trusty old Staedtler-Mars electric eraser. I wonder where it
is now?

Well, I actually have one. NOS. Not sure about the brand, though.

If you're _really_ interested, let me know.

- Frank Krygowski

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:24:25 -0700, SMS
wrote:

The lights are an issue as the cheaper dyno lights aren't all that
great, and even the expensive ones aren't bright enough for a lot of
commute situations.

You prove how dim you are every time you denigrate the lighting
systems that have been in constant use since before you were born.

Grow up.
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zk

Zoot Katz wrote:
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:24:25 -0700, SMS
wrote:

The lights are an issue as the cheaper dyno lights aren't all that
great, and even the expensive ones aren't bright enough for a lot of
commute situations.

You prove how dim you are every time you denigrate the lighting
systems that have been in constant use since before you were born.

Grow up.

Very creative snipping to change the context. When you have something
useful to say, without taking things completely out of context, get back
to us.

The complete statement was: "The lights are an issue as the cheaper dyno
lights aren't all that great, and even the expensive ones aren't bright
enough for a lot of commute situations. But you can always supplement
the included dynohub lights with more powerful lights if the situation
demands it."

I don't know _anyone_ that would disagree with that statement, at least
not in the U.S..

wrote:
On Oct 1, 5:16 pm, Paul O wrote:

I miss my trusty old Staedtler-Mars electric eraser. I wonder where it
is now?

Well, I actually have one. NOS. Not sure about the brand, though.

If you're _really_ interested, let me know.

- Frank Krygowski

Frank,
Nostalgia can be a funny thing. I remember how well my old electric
eraser worked. It did a quick, clean, and thorough job at erasing lines
on mylar and vellum. But the overall activity for which it was designed
to do was a PITA.

A couple of years after I moved to the drawing board, my company
purchased a bunch of PC workstations and a site license for an early DOS
version of AutoCAD (AutoCAD 5?). Before long, all of my drafting tools
were gathering dust in the bottom of a desk drawer and my drafting board
became a big horizontal surface to hold print-outs, books, and catalogs.
The simple truth was that preparing drawings with a CAD program was much
easier, faster, and more accurate than doing it by hand. And I could
erase hundreds of lines with an "E" command and a few mouse clicks.

That job ended and I moved on. I still have some of my drafting tools
but I never use them. And, I still use AutoCAD a fair amount (I'm up to
release 2008 now). So I probably would never use my old Staedtler-Mars
eraser even if I still had it.

Thanks, but some things are better left in the past...

--

Paul D Oosterhout
I work for SAIC (but I don't speak for SAIC)

On Oct 2, 11:23 am, Paul O wrote:
wrote:
On Oct 1, 5:16 pm, Paul O wrote:

I miss my trusty old Staedtler-Mars electric eraser. I wonder where it
is now?

Well, I actually have one. NOS. Not sure about the brand, though.

If you're _really_ interested, let me know.

- Frank Krygowski

Frank,
Nostalgia can be a funny thing. I remember how well my old electric
eraser worked. It did a quick, clean, and thorough job at erasing lines
on mylar and vellum. But the overall activity for which it was designed
to do was a PITA.

A couple of years after I moved to the drawing board, my company
purchased a bunch of PC workstations and a site license for an early DOS
version of AutoCAD (AutoCAD 5?). Before long, all of my drafting tools
were gathering dust in the bottom of a desk drawer and my drafting board
became a big horizontal surface to hold print-outs, books, and catalogs.
The simple truth was that preparing drawings with a CAD program was much
easier, faster, and more accurate than doing it by hand. And I could
erase hundreds of lines with an "E" command and a few mouse clicks.

That job ended and I moved on. I still have some of my drafting tools
but I never use them. And, I still use AutoCAD a fair amount (I'm up to
release 2008 now). So I probably would never use my old Staedtler-Mars
eraser even if I still had it.

Thanks, but some things are better left in the past...

Yep. I understand completely. Sometimes nostalgia isn't all it's cut
out to be.

Honestly, the real reason I have that electric eraser is that it (and
a dozen clones) were being thrown out because CAD had made them
obsolete. I thought: "Hmm. Electric motor, collet chuck - that might
come in handy for _something_!" But it's languished in a drawer
unused ever since.

However, I note that for small, one-off drawings, I'm still faster
drawing with pencil and paper than I am with AutoCAD or its
competitors!

- Frank Krygowski

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:04:29 -0500, BobT:


Your comment stimulated me to look at the B&M site. Looks like a really
great light. I might want to replace my Schmidt E6 and B&M Lumotec N Plus
halogen lights with this LED light depending on the price.

Do you know anything about when and where I could buy one of these lights.
I live in the U.S.A.. Searching the B&M site and Peter White's site didn't
help answer this question.

The Fly IQ in its different versions will be available in german shops
around the end of october AFAIK. It usually will take another month or so
until the lights might also be sold in other countries. Prices are in the
60-75 Euro range. With the weak US-$ and the small quantities exported to
the US prices have to be higher abroad.

Andreas