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"Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'" (otto-the-croatian) 07/03/2018 at 07:08 • Filed to: hour rule

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PartyPooper2012 > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 07:18

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Front fender says Kiev. Red tie around her neck says Soviet Union, However I don’t remember having access to these hovercraft space motorcycles. I must have lived in the poor part of Soviet Union. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 07:35

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Why does she have to put her foot down? If the scooter can hover , it is obviously able to self-balance.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 07:37

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Tintin's girlfriend?

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/03/2018 at 07:40

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How so? Maybe the base isn’t wide enough to balance it, I can see that being possible.

nerd_racing > PartyPooper2012 07/03/2018 at 08:08

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They weren’t for plebs.  

Party-vi > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/03/2018 at 08:09

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I disagree. The hover scooter is applying force to keep it off the ground, but that’s it; there is no force keeping it upright, or how would it bank into turns? Hell, does it even bank into turns? How does it turn? I NOW HAVE MORE QUESTIONS!

PartyPooper2012 > nerd_racing 07/03/2018 at 08:11

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Obviously they were for the party leaders. I just can’t seem to remember Gorbachev riding around on it. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 08:22

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Just think about how a motorcycle works. The tires hold it up, but it’s not until they are rotating that they provide any balancing force. The tires also keep it from sliding sideways when it is stopped and the rider has a single foot down.

Now imagine how this “hover” bike works. It has some sort of repulsion to the ground, whether it’s air flow, anti-gravity, or magnetic. Unless there is some self- balancing mechanism and another to prevent it moving laterally without specific input, the simple act of putting her foot down would impart enough lateral force to cause the system (the “bike” and the rider) to start sliding sideways. With the foot as an anchor point, the inclination would be for the system to start rotating, eventually causing the “bike” to lay down on its left side. That is, unless the “bike” has some sort of self-balancing mechanism to keep it from rotating about its longitudinal axis .

Spend a little time watching hovercraft racing to get a better grasp of the physics of frictionless transportation. Then spend some time thinking about riding a bicycle on ice without studded tires. Even better, do what I did when I was a kid - try to ride a bike on ice without studded tires. That was a painful lesson in physics.

So Shiney. So Chrome! So Frunky > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/03/2018 at 08:43

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Second option: She isn’t putting a foot down at a stop, she is just climbing on the hover bike

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/03/2018 at 08:46

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Force of habit 

Spoon II > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/03/2018 at 10:44

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Plot twist: In the future, striking a Captain Morgan pose is cool (in the same way that dabbing is currently cool)

GLiddy > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 10:53

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Why does it have a clutch lever?

TheRealBicycleBuck > Party-vi 07/03/2018 at 11:06

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The application of force to keep it off the ground implies that it’s directional and self-stabilizing. If it weren’t self-stabilizing , any lean in any direction would send the scooter shooting off in that direction. If it didn’t have something holding it in place (a true hover), even a breeze would send it sliding in the direction of the wind.

I’ve thought way too much about how these things might work. Every time I look at one, the BS meter in my head buries the needle.

random001 > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' 07/03/2018 at 12:40

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Schoolgirl Rey?