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    Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    The same thing can be accomplished with a stick, horse blinders, and lots of yelling. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of UGAdawg UGAdawg
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    Oh for fuck's sake! Whatever happened to the right of passage of getting nicked up shins and knees while learning how to ride? I remember back in the day learning how to ride on my Huffy banana seat bike and banging up my shins pretty good. I had not mastered the art of braking and my pedals where made of metal and they'd bang against my shins after I put my feet on the ground at the end of stopping. It was no biggie. Plus there's something about having your dad holding the back of your bike pushing you along and making sure you don't fall. I'd rather have those memories than one sitting in front of a screen. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/19/09

    @UGAdawg: I think this is more for simulating a controlled situation to teach kids how to handle traffic situations while riding. I can't imagine this machine teaches a kid to balance a "2-wheeler" properly
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    Image of UGAdawg UGAdawg
    10/19/09

    @Lizard_King: In that case then I think having your parents riding along side you would be better than this. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @UGAdawg: Absolutely, but some parents will go to great lengths to automate something instead of spending time with their kids. Also, as the threads below suggest, maybe some adults aren't the best role models from which to learn rules. I'm all for personal responsibility, as well as letting parents raise their children, but if this method keeps kids from getting hit on their bikes, or gives them the confidence to get outside and ride their bikes, I'm for it. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of Software_Goddess Software_Goddess
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    You know, I get so sick of seeing grown adults riding bikes on the sidewalks. Kids don't need this; adults do. I say we make anyone over the age of 15 who is caught braking traffic laws while on a bike, take mandatory lessons on this. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/19/09

    @Software_Goddess: I say anyone breaking traffic laws on a bicycle over the age of 15 get put in a wooden stock and get pummeled with rotten tomatoes. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Well... I was saving those tomatoes for the drunks that walk on the train tracks to avoid detection, but... OK #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @Software_Goddess: also, biking on the wrong side of the road is also really annoying. A bicycle is a vehicle, you bike on the RIGHT side of the road (unless you live in England or one of the other countries where you drive on the left).

    But worst of all is the drivers who simply refuse to acknowledge that people are biking, and will either cut them off or force the cyclist to brake/swerve wildly to avoid being run over or running into the car. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @psychiccheese: My car is bigger than their bike, as such I have the right of way. Same thing with pedestrians. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @headc4se: Oh I had no idea we could make up our own rules! Let me try: Oh since I'm faster on my motorcycle than just about anything else, I have the right of way. Or, since when on the bicycle, I consume no gas or produce no emmisions I have the right of way.

    Or hey, I like this one best - Since 99% of roads gets funded by property taxes all you renters can get the f*ck off my roads. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/20/09

    @Lizard_King: I do like the rule about the motorcycles, since I usually do give myself the right of way when I'm riding, safely of course. Since you don't produce any emissions on a bicycle, I would have to take your right of way since idling isn't bad for the environment. Unfortunately, the whole renter thing doesn't work, since rent does include something towards property taxes, etc.. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of ilovexspin ilovexspin
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    Is it just me or does the screen kinda look like a giant iPhone? #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of Lizard_King Lizard_King
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    I see a use for this in my neighborhood - take the brake levers off and teach the hipsters how to ride in traffic. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    Image of bigpolla bigpolla
    10/19/09

    In reply to Who Needs Training Wheels When You Have Ridiculously Elaborate Bicycle Simulators?
    this is it. this is the starting point in which family life is destroyed. where the bronze of technology fills the fabric of human connection and love.

    dam you honda. dam you. #hondabicyclesimulator
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    10/19/09

    @bigpolla: Learning to trust the machines at an early age will be our downfall.

    Seriously though, the family-time element of learning to ride is often removed when the parents decide to hire the guy at the local bike shop to teach their kid to ride. #hondabicyclesimulator
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