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[kulwen]

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I wonder if someone on the forum can create a "DUMB" bumper sticker for us to give away as prizes.

 

[odot]

Those stickers would go well with scoots that have all the magical electronic wizardry stacked on the dash board.

edit: wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

 

[twowheelnut]

Those stickers would go well with scoots that have all the magical electronic wizardry stacked on the dash board.
edit: wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Oh, you so don't wanna go there, ARMCO-boy. :jimmy kick:

:bleh:

 

[odot]

thanks wiki:

AK Steel Holding Corporation, formerly known as Armco, is a major American steel company founded in 1900 as the American Rolling Mills Corporation. With 2005 revenues of US$5 billion, it is on the list of the 500 largest companies from Fortune Magazine. Today the company is situated in Middletown, Ohio although on February 20, 2007 the company announced that they would be moving their headquarters to West Chester, Ohio. The move should be complete by the third quarter of 2007

 

[twowheelnut]

Dig deeper:

ArmcoThe metal safety barriers that line roads, usually motorways or at dangerous bends, are designed to stop a car from leaving the road or crossing a central reservation, without deflecting it back into the traffic again, and to deform in a way least likely to cause it, and its occupants, damage.

Usually made from steel, Armco isn't strictly the name for these safety barriers, but this has become a generic term referring to the American company which made most of them.

The use of such barriers dates back to the 50s, but they came most widely to public attention in the early 70s as a safety device in motor racing. Fitted around many Grand Prix, Indy and NASCAR circuits, among others, in response to the horrific fatality rate, they initially attracted much controversy, especially at venues such as Watkins Glen, where the 'soft wall' met with much opposition and strikes by drivers, and the Zaandvoort GP circuit near Amsterdam, which closed after a death was attributed to the collapse of the Armco barrier. Refined and further developed, Armco is now near-universal at racing circuits and is credited with saving many lives.

However, it has been on the roads where it has had the most positive impact and although new 'stepped' concrete walls are now taking its place (ie down the centre of many motorways), Armco remains cheap and effective.

So, you were close, but get an F for failure to surmise. :lol:

 

[Toecutter]

I wonder if someone on the forum can create a "DUMB" bumper sticker for us to give away as prizes.

They probably could, but you have to promise not to try and apply them while piloting your bike.

 

[abarron576]

Did anyone else notice where the man works. If he wanted to borrow some of the residual products from the company, he could figure out another way to clear the roads.

:yahoo:

 

[Silver Penguin]

Perhaps the auto manufacturers could apply the stickers, at the time of initial assembly, to save time and money and ensure that all the multi-taskers got one.

 

[wpbfjr]

Dig deeper:

ArmcoThe metal safety barriers that line roads, usually motorways or at dangerous bends, are designed to stop a car from leaving the road or crossing a central reservation, without deflecting it back into the traffic again, and to deform in a way least likely to cause it, and its occupants, damage. <snip>

So, you were close, but get an F for failure to surmise. :lol:

NOT fair!!!

odot wuz on his scoot, not in a cage... :rofl:

 

[odot]

Two points for wpbfjr.....put that in your pipe and smoke it nutter.

 

[keithaba]

Nothin like some good ol' fashion sarcasm! But the FJR forum wouldn't know anything about that....