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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:30 pm

Now this is cool , an ELF bike .. an Item on TV3 news tonight .. All we now need ELF lanes.


The concept , I want one


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Re: ELF bikes

Postby emfrat » Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:54 pm

Oi loike dat ! :cheers: - must send a link to my youngest bro. He collects 100-yr-old bicycles, which is more practical than collecting Dreadnoughts from the same era.
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:07 pm

Mike they go on about the road toll, the fuel, parking and moneys and maybe the ones who need the exercise , would seriously suit the round town city commuters, future development , I can see these going a long way.
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby omitchell » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:22 pm

Saw em on the news. I so want one...
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:55 pm

omitchell wrote:Saw em on the news. I so want one...

Certainly be idea in the city centers, I could imagine Riccarton Rd or Papanui Rd, just think the entire family would need one :)
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Fozzer » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:09 pm

Its a well known fact that Cycling is good for your 'elf....

...apparently.... ;) ....!

Me?...I've always found the; "peddling" to be the difficult part!... :( ...!

Paul...with a fat engine between the wheels!.... :rockon: ...!

..the Americans describe it as being a really; COOL VEE-HICKLE....Some even describe it as being; AWESOME!.... :bow: ...!

..... :lol: ....!
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby omitchell » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:10 pm

Fozzer wrote:Its a well known fact that Cycling is good for your 'elf....


I've suddenly lost my desire for one
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:20 pm

Fozzer wrote:Its a well known fact that Cycling is good for your 'elf....

...apparently.... ;) ....!

Me?...I've always found the; "peddling" to be the difficult part!... :( ...!

Paul...with a fat engine between the wheels!.... :rockon: ...!

..the Americans describe it as being a really; COOL VEE-HICKLE....Some even describe it as being; AWESOME!.... :bow: ...!

..... :lol: ....!

Are you saboteur :D ... and to think I was going to create a New Zealand market for them !
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:30 pm

omitchell wrote:I've suddenly lost my desire for one

Arr ya Lazy bugger ! :D ... be ideal to cruz the airport perimeters B-)
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Fozzer » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:31 pm

Ian Warren wrote:
Fozzer wrote:Its a well known fact that Cycling is good for your 'elf....

...apparently.... ;) ....!


..... :lol: ....!

Are you saboteur :D ... and to think I was going to create a New Zealand market for them !


Lest we forget, Ian!..... ;) .... ;) ....>>>

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The King is dead...long live the King!.... :lol: ....!

Paul....Spectrum 48k addict.... :D ...!
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 09, 2015 8:43 pm

Fozzer wrote:Lest we forget, Ian!..... ;) .... ;) ....>>>
The King is dead...long live the King!.... :lol: ....!

The world has change since thirty years back .. a "notorious ... example of failure" A Sinclair ;) I knew one who was the same in engineering ... just think pack a picarnic lunch, cameras on board an ELF, they did say on a good day you would get 35MPH out of it on solar electricity, keep the throbbing pistons for the long range trips ;)
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby deeknow » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:28 pm

"not something I'd be killing it with the ladies in" ... LOL that man has his priorities sorted :D
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby steelsporran » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:48 pm

Rickshaw, trishaw now powershaw. Brack & Dlecker perhaps? :wink2:
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Tue Mar 10, 2015 12:56 pm

deeknow wrote:"not something I'd be killing it with the ladies in" ... LOL that man has his priorities sorted :D

You really never know ... some off girlies really like the modern man :)
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Tue Mar 10, 2015 1:00 pm

steelsporran wrote:Rickshaw, trishaw now powershaw. Brack & Dlecker perhaps? :wink2:

Looking at some people today ... maybe this is exactly what they need ... ole Skinman1 calls me Skinman ... I look at some kids that look like a "marshmellow" from the movie 'Ghostbusters' :rolleyes:
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby omitchell » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:01 pm

steelsporran wrote:Rickshaw, trishaw now powershaw. Brack & Dlecker perhaps? :wink2:


To quote Uncle Benny: "It's Fried Rice you Plick!!!"
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Tue Mar 10, 2015 2:59 pm

omitchell wrote:
steelsporran wrote:Rickshaw, trishaw now powershaw. Brack & Dlecker perhaps? :wink2:


To quote Uncle Benny: "It's Fried Rice you Plick!!!"

I did have some GREAT fun on a 'Rickshaw' in Brissy , round about the same time as the World Expo 1988, the chap really pulled his chicken wings out and really was entertaining .... dropped me and me bro were your could get some superb 'Uncle Benny tucker', ... we were there for 40 plus minutes and on walking out there he was ... got me home to the hotel ... nothing wrong with pedal power :)
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby emfrat » Tue Mar 10, 2015 9:14 pm

Ian Warren wrote:I did have some GREAT fun on a 'Rickshaw' in Brissy , round about the same time as the World Expo 1988,


Hehe - they call them 'Pedicabs' these days. There is a stand quite near the museum. There are also QLD Police patrolling the South Bank Parklands on Segways...we have a scheme to hire a pedicab and bribe the driver to go hooning round the Parklands, so the cops will chase us on their Segways. Should make a great video :lol:
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:08 am

'Pedicabs' aye , back in 88 during the World Expo , one had a boom box in it .. me and bro felt we were in a Mike Meyers Wayne's World Bohemian Rhapsody movie and had to nods our heads to suit :lol:
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Re: ELF bikes

Postby emfrat » Wed Mar 11, 2015 10:18 pm

Younger viewers might need to know that the Expo 88 site was developed to clear out derelict wharfage, warehousing and so on. After being 'the old Expo Site' for quite a while, it was redeveloped as the South Bank Parkland, which includes the Qld Cultural Centre and the Qld Performing Arts Centre. These days it is a great public facility, with Australia's only inland, city centre beach.
I was still in Port Kembla in 1988, so I didn't get to the Expo - my annual leave was already allocated - but about half the rest of the works did, so those who stayed behind could soon talk about the Expo as if they had actually been there. The thing everyone remembered was that NZ had a brilliant exhibit, but there were huge queues to get to it.
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