Jul 14 2005
I wannas for bikes
Doing some random something-surfing for things I wish I could afford, so here’s a bit of a wishlist:
- Free Radical Sports Utility Bicycle (SUB)
This bike looks like it can carry everything - check out the community photo galleries for people hauling kegs, surfboards, chairs and tables, bookshelves, lumber, etc. on their bike - not to mention people. I would definitely want it as a “second bike.” High personal drool factor. - GPS system
I’m not talking about a little wristwatch thingy here, but more like the carlike ones with a small LCD and a few buttons and voice control mounted on the handlebar. Something with a 2 1/2″ by 2 1/2″ lcd would be ideal, I think, with rechargeable batteries (and removable from mount, of course). I haven’t googled a product that I’ve seen be like this, but given the experience yesterday, a map in context that would be handsfree would be awesome. Barring that, I suppose I could find one of the smaller new Tablet PCs and set it up with GPS or, in a wifi happy area, with google maps and some useful hacks (more about google mapness in another entry).
Um, that’s all for now. Guess it wasn’t much after all, but in the right place, two bikes, one like that and a gps, I would be mostly independent from anyone else’s transportation. I like transit and all, but the coolness factor…i.e., I need furniture, so I program the GPS for Ikea, hop on the SUB, and don’t get lost on the way with large heavy flat boxes.
