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Remember the Ad Campaign, "Ford Has a Better Idea"?

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Mickey Richaud

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NOT!!!!

Saw this on an RV forum - please do what you can to spread the word and complain to whomever - HORRIBLE idea!

 
That was the deciding factor in not buying another motorcycle -
way too many distracted drivers.
We live about a block from a high school.I can't believe how many
people I observe holding their phones & looking down at them,all while
speeding through our neighborhood.
 
AngliaGT said:
That was the deciding factor in not buying another motorcycle -
way too many distracted drivers.
We live about a block from a high school.I can't believe how many
people I observe holding their phones & looking down at them,all while
speeding through our neighborhood.
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Same here. Waiting for the sounds of a crash and the screaming. Kids, pets, neighbors out walking. With a speed limit of 25MPH, we've had fools in cars go past the hovel at speeds approaching 50MPH. Dirt bikes with open pipes running over 60MPH... with small children sitting on the tank between the rider and the handlebar! Cops say they can't do anything unless they witness it. Tragedy is inevitable.
 
Wish it was legal, and safe..., to cut them off, open the driver door, grab them by the ears and shake their heads back and forth all the while yelling "put the FREAKIN phone down"...

Or perhaps a little remote you could point at the offending car/truck/motorbike that when the button was pushed shocked the daylights out of them...

I find as I get older my tolerance for stupid gets smaller and smaller.
 
All due respect, guys, but that's a different issue - this is not limited to motorcycles. Ford's new idea opens up a whole new realm of possibilities for mayhem.
 
Yep - another great new idea for adding distractions (altho' the Motortrend article with details isn't quite so scary as the video implies).

mikephillips said:
I find as I get older my tolerance for stupid gets smaller and smaller.
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Me too Mike. Me too.
 
I only have an issue with motorcycles that come thru town in first gear and no pipes, just to echo of buildings first light and after dark. But, then there are the bikes who wait until you are almost at an intersection on the highway and pull out in front of you while you are pulling a trailer. I have brush guards, just in case. Saw one girl passenger with her eys and mouth wide open when her driver pulled out in front of my truck with a 21' boat, no way was I letting that boat come thru my back window. Yes, I hate the phones, I keep one finger on the horn ready quite a bit.
 
Speaking of Ford - have you ever seen the movie Flash of Genius? True story of how Robert Kearns invented the intermittent windshield wiper, and thought he had an agreement with Ford to buy his device, only to discover that Ford stole his idea and put it into the new Mustang without paying Kearns or giving him credit. Kearns, representing himself, spent his lifetime in legal battle with Ford, but in the end a jury found that, indeed, Ford had infringed on Kearns' patent. Kearns' invention is found in most cars even to this day.
 
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I remember that. Showed a Lincoln heading to the Dearborn show in the rain.
 
That's why I gave up motorcycle riding. Too many close calls from cars - usually women - pulling out of a side road on my right just as I approached. Their startled expression told me they never saw me. They're looking for a car, not a M/C. It just doesn't register.
 
pdplot said:
That's why I gave up motorcycle riding.
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A few years ago, on Father's Day, the wife and I stopped into a Triumph motorcycle dealer. I had been thinking about getting a bike again to commute. WHen we left the dealer, no more than 1 mile up the road there were police and an ambulance on old Route 66 and a large cruiser-type motorcycle lying on its side. We learned the next day, for a cop friend, that the guy was exactly my age and was killed in the collision.

That's when I decided that maybe I didn't need a motorcycle after all.
 
I still keep my motorcycle license but, I find that the Midget provides pretty much all the experience I need. The last significant ride was on a friend's BMW in Florida - Florida isn't the greatest place to ride at the best of times (at least the Orlando area) because all the roads are straight (like this part of Ontario) - at any rate we were driving hope from near Ocala and it started to rain. Just enough that the road got greasy. Between that and avoiding big cars being driven by octogenarians I realized I was having no fun at all. As mentioned I still keep it but don't miss driving.
 
After moving here to Florida from Pennsylvania and going to the DMV for the license switch, they asked if I wanted to retain motorcycle and CDL ratings. I'd already made the promise to The Mits I'd not be riding two wheels anymore, so I declined both. Thinking back that may have been a mistake. Not the bike one but the CDL. Now it requires a "drivers school diploma". Had I kept it there's only a periodic proficiency exam. <shrug>
 
I drive the little car like a motorcycle since it's so tiny, people don't even look before merging into your lane, etc... I always have an out, I give distance for stupidity, and I drive offensively at times to get away from stupid drivers. I have a motorcycle, I haven't renewed the tags and it sits now, mainly since I have a daughter and family and I don't want someone in uniform showing up to deliver bad news to them because someone was texting or distracted and not paying attention.
 
Basil said:
Me too...but. I could see getting something like a Honda 90 trail bike for exploring off-road trails when we're camping.
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My daughter has a CT 90 Honda - which might <might> look like this one day. Was trying to decide if I could do a quick restore on hers (needs it!) in part to get it out of my shed. Before doing so, I figured I ought to look into insurance for her (her paying that is) the best ballpark I could find her was about $2000 a year - for 90cc! :scared: Haven't talked to her yet but there may be a sale in her future - that's a lot for pretty negligible use and there really aren't trails anywhere close.

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That's unbelievable! M/C insurance used to be cheap. AFAIK I never paid more than about $300/year. I started on a Yamaha 80 cc, then a Honda 125, than a Honda 175 and finally a Honda CB-1 400 cc.
 
JPSmit said:
My daughter has a CT 90 Honda - which might <might> look like this one day. Was trying to decide if I could do a quick restore on hers (needs it!) in part to get it out of my shed. Before doing so, I figured I ought to look into insurance for her (her paying that is) the best ballpark I could find her was about $2000 a year - for 90cc! :scared: Haven't talked to her yet but there may be a sale in her future - that's a lot for pretty negligible use and there really aren't trails anywhere close.

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That's the bike I first rode as a young teen (9th grade). A friend of mine's dad had one of these and they would take me camping with them and my and my friend George would ride the thing all over.
 
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