Bikes in the Fast Lane: Ads: Thailand - Dead Helmet plus 2 more

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• Ads: Thailand - Dead Helmet
• Smartphone Based Alcohol Breathalyzer
• France: Digger Machine Takes Out 2 Automatic Radars, Bikers Rejoice

Ads: Thailand - Dead Helmet Posted: 05 Mar 2013 08:00 AM PST Maybe something got lost in the translation. Or it's a cultural thing. These two print advertisemenst from the Thai Health Promotion Foundation are just plain weird. The text reads "Ride safe, wear a helmet" but what is the image supposed to tell us? Is it that our heads are not a helmet (probably), or use helmets that are in good condition? Your guess is as good as mine... ...

Smartphone Based Alcohol Breathalyzer Posted: 05 Mar 2013 04:00 AM PST Here's something that might satisfy the safety nazis in France. With their new mandatory-breathalyzers-but-no-sanction-if-caught law in France, every vehicle, including foreign registered ones, will require to have a working breathalyzer onboard, but if you get caught, you'll not be fined (I know, it's stupid but that's politics for you). The Alcohoot is a Bluetooth device that works are a breathalyzer. It pairs with your smartphone (iPhone in the beginning, Android later) and you blow into the device. The data is sent over to your phone where it is analyzed, but more smartly than the breathalyzers used by LEOs since it uses your gender, age, weight and height to correctly tell you if you should be riding your motorcycle or not........... ...........Click on the headline to continue reading this story....... ...

France: Digger Machine Takes Out 2 Automatic Radars, Bikers Rejoice Posted: 04 Mar 2013 10:00 PM PST In the time of two days in North East of France (Alsace region), a digger machine was used to totally demolish 2 automatic radars located alongside the road. People are fed up with these automatic radars, since they will make expensive photos of you and your car or motorcycle, even when you are only a few kilometers over the speed limit. Radars have been shot at, burnt, garbage bagged, painted, but this solution is far more radical; the radar is totally wasted. ...

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