What we want but hasn't been invented yet!

[ChristoT]

A automated highway system that would self-operate, provide the power for vehicles on its grid, and not have any accidents. Imagine the highways in "I, Robot" without the going vertical bits, and without the psychotic lorries!

Yeah right, and imagine a world without bikes 

Oh yeah, you don't have to 

  Foc off.

I mean as an urban network. Drive to a major town, park the bike, get into a "pod" that takes you straight to where you want to go. Like park and ride buses, but actually functional! Would reduce traffic jams as no accidents, and a computerised control network.

[Doddsie]

" PUB POD"!!! 

[Exupnut]

A automated highway system that would self-operate, provide the power for vehicles on its grid, and not have any accidents. Imagine the highways in "I, Robot" without the going vertical bits, and without the psychotic lorries!

Yeah right, and imagine a world without bikes 

Oh yeah, you don't have to 

Lol OUCH!!!

[darrsi]

Arai to create a visor that expels beads of water by turning your head, rather than water sticking like glue to it.
I've had several over the years and they've been no different.
With my old Shoei lid, water would just fly off it no problem!

[fazersharp]

Remote central locking for your house, doors lock and windows shut and lock

[Kosmic Kartman]

I designed, built prototypes, got patents and sold two patents for 100cc go kart applications about thirty plus years ago.

1. Application for operating the throttle by way of hand operated lever mounted on the back of the seat. Those that have had to bump direct drive 100cc karts will know what I'm on about. When you bump these you have to run along, one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the back of the seat holding the rear wheels off the ground and then drop the back turning over the engine by way of the back wheels. When the engine fired the knack was to jump in and hit the go pedal before the engine died or you lost momentum... sometimes easier said than done. Unless you have Kosmic's Easy Start system. Dump the kart hold the lever and the kart bursts into life and travels forward at fast walking pace (jogging) with the motor nicely ticking over. Jump in holding the lever until you can get your foot on the throttle and away you go.

You can't see the hand operated but to the right of the tank you can see the throttle linkage. The lever operated the throttle cable without interfering with the foot pedal and vise versa.





2. Steering wheel mounted choking lever. At maximum revs when racing these karts, at the end of a long straight before backing off the throttle the engine bore needs to be cooled or there is a great potential to seize the engine because the fuel is pre-mixed. When you gas off there is not enough oil running through the engine to lubricate the piston and bore. The knack was to cover the air intake with one hand to flood the engine, a rich intake of oil and petrol would cool the bore. Thing is you have to pretty accurate when doing this. Too much and the engine would flood and stall and spit you into a spin then maybe restart mid corner often with a lock up sideways or lots of power causing bad oversteer... Not what you want as this costs laptime and unsettles the kart.  The Kosmic's Easy Choke was fully adjustable to give you just the right amount of richening. On longer straights such as Rye House more choking/cooling was needed and on shorts straight as at Lydd less cooling was needed. The finger operated lever mounted on the back of the steering wheel activated a butterfly valve on the air intake. This meant both hands could be kept on the steering wheel just at corner entry where you need to be precise.

[Kosmic Kartman]

Remote central locking for your house, doors lock and windows shut and lock

 

Or remote light off for when your daughter leaves various lights on throughout the house.

[fazersharp]

Remote central locking for your house, doors lock and windows shut and lock

 

Or remote light off for when your daughter leaves various lights on throughout the house.

You can already get something like that I think that you press it and the button slowly pops out and then turns the light off, you can also fit remote sensors that turn them on and off.
And apart from any of that there is something that already does it --- its called Dad.

[bigralphie]

Light reactive visor that quickly adjusts to light levels     

[darrsi]

Light reactive visor that quickly adjusts to light levels     

My insert does that already, very mildly but certainly enough to be helpful!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313&_nkw=progrip+visor+insert&_sacat=0

[bigralphie]

they might be better now but I tried one a few years ago and it just never got dark enough 

[darrsi]

they might be better now but I tried one a few years ago and it just never got dark enough 

I have the clear one, and the tinted one which was certainly good enough in summer.
Apart from the anti fog properties I also like the fact that they get rid of headlight glare at night as well.

There's a bit of a knack to fitting them, because you need to get it right first time with the double sided tape, you can't just peel it off to readjust it.
And you need to have the visor totally clean, and dust, hair and shit free, otherwise you're doomed to have to stare at it.

I've got it down to a bit of an art now, and every 1 or 2 years i'll reapply and shape new double sided tape in one long length on my visor so that it stays air tight.
Because I ride all year round water will eventually find a way in, normally around the top somewhere, then it's time to change the tape again.
I use Sticky Stuff Remover to get the old gunk off, as it doesn't hurt anything.

[BIG MAC]

Electric lorries and Solar powered induction charging laybys for them to pull up for rest periods. 'Shoulder blade' a velcro on plastic cover and upright blade which protects a cricketer while allowing free movement of the head. 4 cylinder bike engines that will switch to two in town to conserve fuel.

[noggythenog]

Wearable wing mirrors.......no more mirror extensions or looking at elbows as they will always be further out if they are attached to your elbows.

[Dead Eye]

It's the quirky things in life that I can never manage to think of from the top of my head... my immediate response to this was cheap, clean fuel

Would that not be called electricity?

Not really given how the bulk of electricity is produced

But yeah, this already exists I guess - Solar, Wind, Hydro and Tidal power

[darrsi]

Wearable wing mirrors.......no more mirror extensions or looking at elbows as they will always be further out if they are attached to your elbows.

I don't even wanna think about the carnage they could cause, to you and others!

[Skippernick]

A automated highway system that would self-operate, provide the power for vehicles on its grid, and not have any accidents. Imagine the highways in "I, Robot" without the going vertical bits, and without the psychotic lorries!

Yeah right, and imagine a world without bikes 

Oh yeah, you don't have to 

OH harsh…


























but fair.

[Oldgit]

Need something to move my burning feet from in front of the roasty toasty coal fire

[JoeRock]

Electric lorries and Solar powered induction charging laybys for them to pull up for rest periods. 'Shoulder blade' a velcro on plastic cover and upright blade which protects a cricketer while allowing free movement of the head. 4 cylinder bike engines that will switch to two in town to conserve fuel.

To be honest the last one is kinda done already with the VFR800 - high revs has 4 valves going, low revs is just two (per pot)

[positron]

Flash charging capacitor type battery powered cars. With one charge the car can push you along for another 4-5 kilometers. There should be flash charging pads on roads every few hundred meters, and as you ride over (or near by it), the battery takes the charge in a fraction of a second and off we go into future. A back up battery will give a 10 km range 'limp mode' to cover the last time / private estates etc.

[Exupnut]

MOTORBIKE CLOSE warning sensor alarms on all vehicles (apart from motorbikes of course)

[red98]

EXUPNUT CLOSE warning sensor alarms on all vechicles ( including motorbikes of course )     

[ChristoT]

EXUPNUT CLOSE warning sensor alarms on all vechicles ( including motorbikes of course )     

 

[red98]

Year long summers...........................

[red98]

Everlasting tyres, self lube chains, self fueling tanks and push button servicing..........dont want much really