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November 29, 2004
How does Lance go vrooom?
Via Boing Boing, there's a new toy (TurboSpoke - Spoke Powered Super Engine Sound!) to make you faster on your bike plus you sound good too! Perhaps this gadget should be at the top of your Santa list.
On an episode of the TV show Braniac in the UK, a kid wanted to know if he was faster or slower with the turbospoke attached to his bike. So they set up a little circuit for him to pedal around with the thing on/off. Realisticly it should slow him down, but the result was that he went faster with the thing on, and what they figured is that it was psychological in speeding him up (with the "vrooom" and all).
I love to go cycling here in NC, especially towards the coast where it is nice and flat. I can see the potential psychological boost coming in handy in the mountains - maybe then I could fly right on up. I might be able to hold my own with the Harleys in my neighborhood too!
Posted by Mary at November 29, 2004 12:57 PM