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The Conference Bike

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the do-you-get-to-use-the-HOV-lane? dept.

gomaze writes "If you are like me, you don't look forward to conference meetings. Until now. We are going to be getting a Conference Bike. They even have a movie on how you can find love with the bike, very interesting. Great way for everyone to get out of the office and still get work done."

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  1. DOT COM? by wickedhobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    You work at one of those .COM's don't you. I suspect well see that bike on e-Bay soon enough.

    heh.

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  2. Not likely. by irokitt · · Score: 4, Funny
    "a movie on how you can find love with the bike"

    Even Slashdotters aren't that desperate.
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  3. Feature Request by Inthewire · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thing needs a kegholder.

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    1. Re:Feature Request by TykeClone · · Score: 3, Funny

      And the helmets can have the "integrated beverage dispersal tubes" to ensure a good meeting.

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  4. No thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now your shortsighted supervisor can not only run the company into the ground, but he can also crash the bike (which he will inevetably be steering) while you furiously peddle away.

    Great. Just great.

  5. Uh.. by Ikn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mod me Flamebait all you want, but that's about the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

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  6. Great by Space_Soldier · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to see the first accident with that bike. CNN is reporting that "the Microsoft Board of Directors have been ran over by a semi during a meeting on how to destroy Linux. Police are searching for the hit and run driver. According to witnesses, the culprit was a penguin.

  7. The good news is... by thewiz · · Score: 5, Funny

    that they made a CONFERENCE bike instead of a COMMITTEE bike. The committee bike would never have gone anywhere, except, maybe in a circle or spun in place.

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    1. Re:The good news is... by RobertB-DC · · Score: 5, Funny

      that they made a CONFERENCE bike instead of a COMMITTEE bike. The committee bike would never have gone anywhere, except, maybe in a circle or spun in place.

      I think they're coming out with the "Committee Bike" next. Where the "Conference Bike" has six sets of pedals and one steering wheel, the "Committee Bike" will have six steering wheels. It will still have six sets of pedals, but three will be geared forward and three will be geared in reverse. The seventh seat (or, the "Figurehead" seat) will have a steering wheel *and* pedals, but they will not be connected to anything.

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  8. Holy shit! by Ogrez · · Score: 3, Funny

    *clicks link*

    Holy shit.. its the monkees on a weird bike.

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  9. Re:Run away! by angedinoir · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I ever see one, I'll make sure to walk in it's exact path and go very slowly. If they hit me I'll sue. If they don't hit me, they'll be really annoyed.

    I can't imagine that you would be able to take it anywhere without being a menace.

  10. Needs an alteration... by FyRE666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If this contraption is supposed to convey the "meeting experience", shouldn't all the riders have their own steering wheel attached to their wheel, so it would end up spinning around in aimless circles with no obvious goal? At least that would bring it closer to how our meetings seem to end up...

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  11. Hurg! by GrAfFiT · · Score: 5, Funny

    "There are now 40 conferencebikes in the world"
    Well, even Segway does better. Using a Segway made you look like an alien on wheels. Using this make you look a pack of dangerous fools.
    "this thing will change your life"... already heard that before.

    Besides this, do they care of people using PDAs or lynx ?

  12. Re:Run away! More like runaway! by Scud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, I'm thinking the SUV's of bicycles.

    I'm waiting for seven fat fuckers going down one of those badass hills in SF to find out that the brakes simply can't cope.

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  13. Beer is cheaper by moorcito · · Score: 3, Funny

    From the link: ...lights up smiling...It lowers inhibitions...it's a party on wheels...

    Buy a 12 pack and drive around. Same effect.

  14. This has been on memepool since the 7th by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    But I decided against posting it here because it was so stupid. I guess others have no such compunctions...

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  15. Re:Run away! More like runaway! by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm waiting for seven fat fuckers going down one of those badass hills in SF to find out that the brakes simply can't cope.

    That sounds remarkably like a dotcom I worked for...

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