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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    Let's see if Lance can win a Tour De France with one of these..
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    I don't see why he couldn't spend a month's wages on a bike - I spent that much on mine. Jr. next to him seems to have scraped together the cash
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    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    these puns are killer
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/25/09

    @i2hellfire: He probably gets a lot of surprised looks from people as he lumbers down the street on this contraption...
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    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    my ischium hurts from looking at that.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @feckineejit: You don't even want to know how my coccyx feels.
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    Image of PeterSimpson PeterSimpson
    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    Guy's hardcore...he didn't even tack a rubber strip to the rim of the wheel. And it looks like he's sitting directly on the crossbar. Would a bit of padding have been a violation of his design ethic? Just because it's green, doesn't mean it has to be painful...


    Unfortunately, those wood wheels aren't going to last long without something to protect them from the rocks and tarmac.

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    Image of resonanteye resonanteye
    03/25/09

    @PeterSimpson: I don't think "green" was the reason, unless you mean green paper.


    (I know yen are not green, by the way)

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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    Frugality is the mother of invention.
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    Image of Toshie Toshie
    03/25/09

    @Curves: And would it kill invention to call Frugality every once in a while?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/25/09

    @Toshie: Especially when Frugality is just sitting there worrying, wondering if invention is eating enough, whether it has met a nice girl, when it's just going to settle down and bring Frugality some grandchildren. And what is so wrong with just doing the same old thing anyway? It was good enough for invention's father and grandfather. Is invention so special that it thinks it can just do whatever it wants and worry its poor mother, sitting there by the phone, wondering why it never calls?
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    Image of spider2544 spider2544
    03/25/09

    In reply to Chinese Villager Takes Wooden Bike Out For a Spin
    the only downside would be that you would have to constantly pedal to make it go


    but other than that totally bad ass i kind of want one.

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    03/25/09

    @spider2544: Same with a fixed gear and I see those all over the place on campus.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/25/09

    @spider2544: Yeah, those bicycles you don't have to pedal are awesome. But we tend to call them MOTORcycles, due to the whole motor thing.
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    01/20/09

    In reply to DIY: Safety Alarm Clock Locks In Your Snooze and Throws Away The Key
    For those of you actually coming to Giz looking for tips on waking up in the morning:


    Why not just get a really really loud alarm and put it out of reach of the bed? Rather than dicking around with a key and such?

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    Image of madog madog
    01/17/09

    In reply to DIY: Safety Alarm Clock Locks In Your Snooze and Throws Away The Key
    You guys just aren't thinking LAZY enough.


    First you build this. Then after a few angry early mornings you start placing the key next to your bed. Then you just start leaving the key inside the device at all times. Then you throw it away, realizing how ridiculous it was in the first place. Start using your phone as an alarm. Then you realize how unsuccessful it is in waking you up. So you buy a puzzle alarm clock. Use that a few times until it becomes too difficult. Find out some clever method to cheat at the puzzle by spending an entire week analyzing it internally so you can have it automatically enter sleep mode once the alarm goes off. That is, until you finally realize how ridiculous and futile it is, and get a new job that allows you to sleep for 12 hours.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/17/09

    In reply to DIY: Safety Alarm Clock Locks In Your Snooze and Throws Away The Key
    I bought the sonic boom alarm clock reviewed here earlier this year. DAMN that thing wakes me up everytime, and I'm someone who has slept through fire alarms while at college.
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    01/17/09

    @EducatedFlea_GitEmSteveDave: My alarm of choice (purely for function) is the screaming meanie 220. You can find it at any truckstop.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    01/17/09

    @ninja in pajamas: This one has a bed shaker. So you can silently wake yourself up, if you care about your partner.
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    Image of pettiblay pettiblay
    01/17/09

    In reply to DIY: Safety Alarm Clock Locks In Your Snooze and Throws Away The Key
    I would end up unplugging the thing for sure
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/17/09

    @pettiblay:
    That's why they stripped the insulation off the "hot" wire on the cord. So that anyone who tries to yank the plug won't be going right back to sleep afterwards.
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    Image of pettiblay pettiblay
    01/18/09

    @Purple Dave: Or will do so for a very long period of time
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/18/09

    @pettiblay:
    Nah. Not unless they live in Europe, or some other safety-scoffing place where they like to use 220v power. I once took a shot of 110v power (it involved a custom extension cord that a college roommate made, with a metal outlet box built onto the female end, and a _really_ humid summer day), and trust me, unless you have a heart condition or you just poked a hole in your waterbed, you will be _AWAKE_ afterwards. You'll feel like you just finished the most rigorous excersize routine you've ever done in your life, but you won't be unconscious. You might also experience murderous thoughts towards whoever designed your alarm clock for a few hours afterwards...
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