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Yes. Non-scratch, anti-fog, water repellant visor.
Glass with heated wires in? I bet they can make glass tough enough by now.
Or a simple way of making a motorbike look distinctively like a motorbike and not a distant car with a blown headlight to a tired car driver pulling out of a sideroad.
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Often drivers dont judge the speed and acceleration of a bike. If they see you, they galnce away and then manoever, by which time you are far from where they saw you. This happens at intersections. They look one way, then the other, then turn, often right in front of you
Drivers who are texting while driving. To me it is like 80% or more of young women drivers. I was behind one once and I her jumping to the music, cigarette in one hand, texting with the other and driving like a bat out of hell. Something said to me dont filter past her. So I stopped behind. She took off at great speed from the traffic light, straight into a pedestrain. I never saw her brake lights come on. She obviously was looking at her phone.
Fiddling with CDs is another.
wet painted lines on the road are very slick for a bike
Oil or diesel spills at toll gates, or booms and gates, or where cars stand idling. When you stop there and put your foot down, out it goes
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| Posted: 13:59 - 31 Oct 2012 Post subject: |
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A helmet inner which cancels out road and wind noise while allowing other noises like horns and so on to come through.
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The number one safety issue when riding is cars.
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| Bendy wrote: | Design a visor that makes it easier to see when the weather is shit. This is apparently beyond the reach of human ingenuity, if you crack it you will be rich. |
+infinity.
Not some Heads Up Display projector gubbins, not some integrated collision warning iPhone app (we've been here before, you see), just a visor that starts and remains water repellent, doesn't fog and doesn't scratch easily from insect chitin.
Sadly, that's an engineering problem, not a design one, so here's a idea from left field: leg cosies.
Quite often I come out and it's just cold or wet enough to not want to ride in jeans, but a passel of hassle to pull on proper waterproofs. Something that keeps most of the weather off of my legs, and particularly the front of them, would be handy. In the context of safety, when you're cold or damp or running late, you tend to press on more than you should.
I'm thinking of a set of waterproof, windproof, semi stiff open tubes that sling over the front of the seat and which you can easily tuck your legs into or behind. I'd imagine they'd benefit from straps that can be run round the front of the bike (or straight across a naked) and over the tank in order to keep them positioned them so that they match the shape of the leg. Nothing that attaches to the leg itself, that would defeat the purpose.
In essence, look at a person on a bike, design something in the shape of their legs, and a way to keep in in that shape, and remove enough so that the legs slip into it when positioned on the footpegs.
See, now I'm thinking about it... 
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| Rogerborg wrote: | Sadly, that's an engineering problem, not a design one, so here's a idea from left field: leg cosies.
Quite often I come out and it's just cold or wet enough to not want to ride in jeans, but a passel of hassle to pull on proper waterproofs. Something that keeps most of the weather off of my legs, and particularly the front of them, would be handy.
I'm thinking of a set of waterproof, windproof, semi stiff open tubes that sling over the front of the seat and which you can easily tuck your legs into or behind. I'd imagine they'd benefit from straps that can be run round the front of the bike (or straight across a naked) and over the tank in order to keep them positioned them so that they match the shape of the leg. Nothing that attaches to the leg itself, that would defeat the purpose.
In essence, look at a person on a bike, design something in the shape of their legs, and a way to keep in in that shape, and remove enough so that the legs slip into it when positioned on the footpegs.
See, now I'm thinking about it... |
So basically you're saying you want arseless chaps that clip onto a minimal frame that remains on the bike?
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| Rogerborg wrote: |
Sadly, that's an engineering problem, not a design one, so here's a idea from left field: leg cosies.
Quite often I come out and it's just cold or wet enough to not want to ride in jeans, but a passel of hassle to pull on proper waterproofs. Something that keeps most of the weather off of my legs, and particularly the front of them, would be handy.
I'm thinking of a set of waterproof, windproof, semi stiff open tubes that sling over the front of the seat and which you can easily tuck your legs into or behind. I'd imagine they'd benefit from straps that can be run round the front of the bike (or straight across a naked) and over the tank in order to keep them positioned them so that they match the shape of the leg. Nothing that attaches to the leg itself, that would defeat the purpose.
In essence, look at a person on a bike, design something in the shape of their legs, and a way to keep in in that shape, and remove enough so that the legs slip into it when positioned on the footpegs.
See, now I'm thinking about it... |
https://evangelineartphotography.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/cowboy-chaps1.jpg
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| Posted: 14:53 - 31 Oct 2012 Post subject: |
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Haters gonna hate.   
Think neoprene with a few stiffening cuffs, slap some REPSOL stickers on them...
OK, the market is all weather, all season riders who want to save 2 minutes a couple of times a month, so it's maybe not a shoe-in for Dragon's Den. 
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