Stephen Fry "Gadget Man" channel 4 8.30 pm

07Lapierre

A new series starting tonight includes "an unusual bicycle"! Mmm anyone care to speculate on this? An electric bike? A unicycle maybe?

Beasty

A Yike Bike apparently

t'bear

you wont get fit on that thing :-)

RidleyRider

Beasty wrote: »

A Yike Bike apparently

He looks like a gimp on that..

07Lapierre

RidleyRider wrote: »

He looks like a gimp on that..

I'd call that a very small "Scooter", not a bicycle. :rolleyes:

nomdeboardie

He wore one of the inflatable collarhelmets while riding it, + had a stuntman demo the helmet from a proper bike as an aside

Beasty

Alas I don't think the Yike Bike will be on my letter to Santa this year ...

07Lapierre

Beasty wrote: »

Alas I don't think the Yike Bike will be on my letter to Santa this year ...

Me neither! And an inflatable helmet??? Geeez

Myksyk

Speaking of TV personalities and all things bike related ... Hammond from Top gear has a new series which is about how nature and evolution are informing new technology. Very cool ideas coming for helmets from the structure of woodpeckers skulls which generate, wait for it, 12,000 g force during their pounding of trees while keeping their brain unharmed. They produced a cylindrical case based on this and placed a bog-standard electric bulb inside, then used a helium balloon to bring it to the edge of space, then dropped it!! It dropped at some ridiculous speed and fell into a canyon on reaching earth. It took them weeks to find it despite the attached gps device. When opened the bulb was intact and even the tiny filament was still in place. Stuck it in a lamp and it worked. Could this be the beginning of the end for the helmet debate? (Runs and hides).

RidleyRider

Myksyk wrote: »

Speaking of TV personalities and all things bike related ... Hammond from Top gear has a new series which is about how nature and evolution are informing new technology. Very cool ideas coming for helmets from the structure of woodpeckers skulls which generate, wait for it, 12,000 g force during their pounding of trees while keeping their brain unharmed. They produced a cylindrical case based on this and placed a bog-standard electric bulb inside, then used a helium balloon to bring it to the edge of space, then dropped it!! It dropped at some ridiculous speed and fell into a canyon on reaching earth. It took them weeks to find it despite the attached gps device. When opened the bulb was intact and even the tiny filament was still in place. Stuck it in a lamp and it worked. Could this be the beginning of the end for the helmet debate? (Runs and hides).

You just opened a hooooooooooooooole new argument. Run and run fast:p

ednwireland

crap program, turned it off before the end

RidleyRider

ednwireland wrote: »

crap program, turned it off before the end

Was that just before the end credits ended? If so I do that will all programmes:p

Myksyk

RidleyRider wrote: »

You just opened a hooooooooooooooole new argument. Run and run fast:p

Stil rnunnnig ... hwoeevr, fnidnig taht is't dfficlut to updaet baords trhaeds wihle runnnig!!

smacl

Myksyk wrote: »

Stil rnunnnig ... hwoeevr, fnidnig taht is't dfficlut to updaet baords trhaeds wihle runnnig!!

Maybe get a bike

Dermot Illogical

smacl wrote: »

Maybe get a bike

Lusk Doyle might have one for sale as he's now joined the mouth breathers.

smacl

Beasty wrote: »

A Yike Bike apparently

An aero wheel chair more like. I'm guessing my mother in-law would kill you for one of these, a real head turner rolling up to the bingo hall.

Myksyk

smacl wrote: »

Maybe get a bike

Good idea ... Wuold I need a hlemet if I'm gonig to be psoting at the same time?!!!!!!

ednwireland

RidleyRider wrote: »

Was that just before the end credits ended? If so I do that will all programmes:p

no just where i got fed up with jonathon ross