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General => Report & Review => Topic started by: cachalote on May 26, 2011, 00:47:39
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i don't know if you have noticed it but - apart from 1 set - all the new motorcyle sets have a big security problem. ;)
if you look closely, none of the bikers is wearing gloves - a mandatory piece of equipment when you ride a motorcycle. :o
maybe it could be acceptable with the 5113 chopper - they usually are very slow and a fall would be just as a fall with a bycicle (and they vibrate so much that your hands will be numb after a 5 minute ride).
but nobody rides a 5114 tourer without gloves (these kind of bikes are usually ugly but its owners i spite of a very strange taste are not stupid).
and what can you say of the 5115 enduro rider - he's wearing a chest protector but he forgot his gloves (he's lucky that klickies don't have pinky fingers).
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Hmmmm, this is a serious over sight for sure! :omg: Thank you for bringing this to our attention, I'm going to search on line for some gloves for my bike riders ASAP! ;)
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the top security madness comes with the 5116 supersportler - no doubt someone who hates his hands and doesn't mind to rub them in the tarmac when sliding after a 300 km/h fall.
almost the same can be said about the 5117 naked bike rider.
in this case calling this a naked bike indicates that its rider has some loose bolts under his skull so the absence of gloves doesn't really come as a big surprise.
finally, the only smart rider - the 5118 custom biker.
not only he's the only one to wear gloves he also has the most beautiful bike... :love:
... and his bike looks a little bit like mine, i must confess. :-[
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Oh no, this is a travesty! I guess we need to call DS for some 30279420 gloves!
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5116 has a much worse problem than the lack of gloves -- He can't see where he's going! :omg:
:P :P :P
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5116 has a much worse problem than the lack of gloves -- He can't see where he's going! :omg:
:P :P :P
Yes, he can, he's got Xray vision! ;)
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No worries! Plenty of playmobil cops to give them a ticket for that! :lol:
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A serious detail omission there by Playmobil!
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When you wrote security problem, I though the bikes lacked an engine immobilizer or some anti-theft device. Lack of gloves is a safety issue. ;)
Lucky the new style gloves can be easily added. I dislike klickies with non-flesh-colored hands as it restricts their usefulness for customising.
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When you wrote security problem, I though the bikes lacked an engine immobilizer or some anti-theft device. Lack of gloves is a safety issue. ;)
It's a matter of translation, Martin. Cachalote will have thought of his topic in Portuguese and written it in English and in Portuguese the word for "security" and "safety" is one and the same - segurança
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At least they have helmets. People in Indiana and Iowa are not required to wear helmets on motorcycles :0
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Boy, you cant sell chocolate eggs with toys, you can not ride a motorcycle with out a helmet and now you have to have gloves 8} what is this world coming too :P Are motorcycle riders really that stupid and unsafe ;D
Joke in reference to other safety issues Link (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=6733.0)
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Don't remind me of that topic! :doh:
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It's a matter of translation, Martin. Cachalote will have thought of his topic in Portuguese and written it in English and in Portuguese the word for "security" and "safety" is one and the same - segurança
yeah same in Spanish. "Seguridad" for both.
;)
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5116 has a much worse problem than the lack of gloves -- He can't see where he's going! :omg:
:P :P :P
And it looks as if 5118 may be resting his foot on the wickedly hot tailpipe! I tried that only one time back in my biking days of college.
Definitely will be a run on gloves at the parts places!
I remember smashing about 4 helmets and trashing at least 10 pairs of leather gloves during my ten years of biking. Glad I quit while I still had most of my parts! 8}
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When you wrote security problem, I though the bikes lacked an engine immobilizer or some anti-theft device. Lack of gloves is a safety issue. ;)
Lucky the new style gloves can be easily added. I dislike klickies with non-flesh-colored hands as it restricts their usefulness for customising.
Martin, in this case where you said "new style gloves," it should be "new-style gloves." When the two words together form a single adjective, it is hyphenated. I just thought maybe you would want to know, since you like to be so precise. ;)
I agree that snap-on gloves are much nicer than colored hands! I want all klicky hands to be skin-colored.
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It's a matter of translation, Martin. Cachalote will have thought of his topic in Portuguese and written it in English and in Portuguese the word for "security" and "safety" is one and the same - segurança
:) thank you playmofire - sometimes i do translate wrongly when i am in a hurry.
i should have said "safety" instead of "security".
:wow: your portuguese is wonderful - very few people would have writen segurança as you did, with a "ç".
in 25 years i have had only 2 crashes on bikes and on both of them i thanked the use of a helmet and a pair of gloves.
in both cases the helmet and the gloves were ruined but my hands and head remained intact (although, in the case of the head, some people tend to disagree). ;)
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At least they have helmets. People in Indiana and Iowa are not required to wear helmets on motorcycles :0
States without mandatory helmet laws have less accidents than states with. In fact, states that have smartened up and repealed helmet laws have found accidents rates to have dropped quite a bit.
Studies show the same things with bicycle helmet laws.
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States without mandatory helmet laws have less accidents than states with. In fact, states that have smartened up and repealed helmet laws have found accidents rates to have dropped quite a bit.
Studies show the same things with bicycle helmet laws.
Whoever did those studies was asking the wrong question. Helmet laws for motorcycles and bicycles were not introduced to reduce the number of accidents but to reduce the number of cases where an accident led to fatal or incapacitating head injuries. So the people conducting the studies were correlating two unrelated things - the use of helmets and the number of accidents. By correlating unrelated items, pretty well anything can be "proved". For example, that the increased use of refrigerators and the number of deaths from lung cancer are linked.
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Quite true. I can't see how helmet laws and number of accidents could be linked, unless maybe you can't see as well with the helmet on (peripheral vision, I mean). All I know is that I have known people whose lives were saved by wearing a motorcycle helmet.
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Yes, laws are strange in our state for sure. There are no mandatory helmet laws for moped, bicycle, or motorcycle riders, but there are seat belt laws for motorists, but school buses carrying up to 80 children don't even offer seat belts for them to wear, & on the news there's reports of school bus accidents even rollovers quite frequently! :hmm:
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I think laws were frequently thought up by people with little or no experience of the subejct to which the law relates.
Crash helmets on motorbikes are compulsory in the UK but nothing else, although the police will stop people who aren't wearing a great deal and offer them a bit of friendly advice about their attire.
Nothing is compulsory on bicycles as far as I know, but a bicycle shop is not allowed to sell a pedal bike without a red reflector on the back. I think I could take mine off and be within the law if I wanted to.
The wearing of seatbelts is compulsory in cars where seatbelts are fitted!! They are compulsory on coaches but not buses (the distinction between the two vehicles being that buses are the ones that you may travel to work on, or to the next town on, and coaches are the ones that you would probably go on a tour on).
But I say so often, "you can't legislate against stupidity".
PS Back to the original subject - Isaac has got the gloves from one of our garden sets that get shared out between his bikers. He's a bit of a stickler for "proper attire" but I need to order some more - enough for the new sets as well, I supose as I forgot to get any with the last spares order. He hasn't seen these new sets yet :giggle:
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It has a lot to do with common sense. If you hit an obstacle in the road riding on a 2 wheeled type of transportation, the laws of physics are going to cause you great harm, even death. The mode of transportation they are aboard will stop, & those is not wearing a helmet or gloves will end up dying from severe head trauma with road rash on your knuckles, legs, and any other part of body that contacts the road surface after flying over the handle bars head first. Remember the saying objects in motion stay in motion? However, instead people want to look tough, riding motorcycles without a helmet making them organ donars. But other motorists in an enclosed vehicle will be stopped by police & anyone not in a safety belt will be fined $25.00 each, because that is the law,...really?
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Spoken like someone who has witnessed quite a few of these tragedies. :-\
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I remember a doctor saying as we moved an accident victim on to an ER gurney with CPR & aggressive efforts being taken to revive him, from a two wheeled vehicle accident, what did you all have to do, pick him up with a stick & a spoon? I witnessed many moped & motorcycle accidents over the years when I was in active service. The ones with riders wearing a helmet, leathers, & gloves, had a much better chance of survival than those not.