Saturday, December 4, 2010

Calling Boy on a Bike

Boy on a Bike - as all regular readers of Paco Enterprises should know - is an Australian blogger who writes primarily (though not by any means exclusively) about his bicycling adventures, and writes so well, and so humorously, that I gladly read him on any subject.

I invite him to offer his professional opinion of the bikers' air bag.

13 comments:

Albury Shifton said...

Bicycle airbags! Pah! Here's a REAL investment for PACO Enterprises: Motorcycle airbags - only $500k
http://australia.businessesforsale.com/australian/World-First-Air-Bag-Motorcycles-Safety-Helmet-Business-For-Sale.aspx

Albury Shifton said...

Oops - price has risen - $1.5m Better hurry if you want in!

Paco said...

I'll have to have Paco Financial Services (Cayman Islands) look into that one.

And there's another variation on this theme that might be worth investigating: pedestrian air bags, for all those idiots walking around on the sidewalks with their eyes glued to their BlackBerries.

richard mcenroe said...

Back in the Carter days, Joan Claybrook, a virulently anti-motorcycle lefty at the DOT, actually ramrodded development of a motorcycle airbag system. Which doubled nicely as an ejector seat.

Yojimbo said...

Bicycles! Motorcycles!

How about airbags for....taxpayers!
Bracket creep er, collision and alt. mini tax-they're not just for breakfast anymore.

JeffS said...

How about we start paving roads and sidewalks with foam rubber instead of concrete and asphalt? No need to worry about pesky head gear at all.

richard mcenroe said...

Yojimbo -- Can't help you with the Taxpayer Airbag. But Really Insidious Capital Hiding And Resource Dispersal, Inc. has developed a lovely line of golden parachutes for politicians and civil servants.

Anonymous said...

Swedish babes. Mmmm. What were we talking about?

JeffS said...

Better watch out, Anon, or you may run afoul of Swedish sex laws.

RebeccaH said...

Really Insidious Capital Hiding And Resource Dispersal, Inc.

Ah. Competition for Paco Enterprises, at last?

JeffS said...

Might be a subsidiary, Rebecca. Never can tell with modern corporation laws.

Boy on a bike said...

Unlike crash test dummies, people tend to stick their hands out when falling over. A pretty common injury for cyclists is a broken collar bone - it snaps when your hand hits the ground, and the force transmits up your arm. It's very good at breaking your fall.

I'm sure that behind every stupid invention like this, there is a massive EU subsidy, rather than a bunch of risk taking venture capitalists who believe that a market exists for the product. The EU will subsidise it until it works, then when no one buys them, mandate their use in order to drive up sales.

Madness. Just look where you are going.

Yojimbo said...

Ha! R_I_C_H_A_R_D. Let's hope your company resides in a growth industry. And maybe you could disable those parachutes you give themn out.