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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. Run away! by lothar97 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've seen them on the sidewalks/boardwalks here in San Diego. They're huge, and take up plenty of space. I can't imagine they're allowed to go on the streets. Odd how the video doesn't show anyone wearing a helmet, when even Segway clips show people in helmets. I also feel bad for the person at the front (facing back)- they can't see where they're going.

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Feature Request by Inthewire · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thing needs a kegholder.

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    1. Re:Feature Request by jCaT · · Score: 5, Informative

      Turns out somebody already thought of it- check this thing out!

  5. 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.

  6. 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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  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. A More Appropriate Metaphor... by rasafras · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The real way meetings work would be reflected in a bike as follows:

    The wheels are arranged in a circle around the rim; all the bike can do is spin. The harder you pedal, the faster you spin, but you still end up going nowhere.

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  10. Re:Only in America by norfolkboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Only in America?

    According to the website, they're based in the Netherlands

    http://www.conferencebike.com/contact/frameset-c on tact.htm

    Very firmly in Europe!

  11. 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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  12. 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 ?

  13. 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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