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Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

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Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#31
post #9

Almost two mins of video without the sound of the product (where the product is the sound generated by the device)?

There's a video further down the page that shows a prototype working, with accompanied sound. When I saw that, it became clear why the sound of the product isn't in the top video:)

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#32

If I see someone riding a bike with one of these things attached to it, I'll call the police. I find it unacceptable for people to make lots of noise for no good reason. Try doing this at night in a residential neighborhood, you'll find out soon enough what people think of this 'invention'.

I'm sure you must have written that in the satirical mood of the video, because otherwise you're totally nuts :) Can you imagine what the police would say if you called them to report a bicycle passing your house with this device???? They'd likely have you Section 5150'd for wasting their time.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#34

Let me be the first to say: I don't get it, why is this a thing and why is there an entire company built around this product? Which apparently requires I screw a coconut to a self made device and then put it on the front of my bike. Is this just satire of modern startups or are things actually this ridiculous?

Because hipsters.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#35

Let me be the first to say: I don't get it, why is this a thing and why is there an entire company built around this product? Which apparently requires I screw a coconut to a self made device and then put it on the front of my bike. Is this just satire of modern startups or are things actually this ridiculous?

Poe's Law.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#36

Let me be the first to say: I don't get it, why is this a thing and why is there an entire company built around this product? Which apparently requires I screw a coconut to a self made device and then put it on the front of my bike. Is this just satire of modern startups or are things actually this ridiculous?

Also you should watch 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. And then you'll get it

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#37

If I see someone riding a bike with one of these things attached to it, I'll call the police. I find it unacceptable for people to make lots of noise for no good reason. Try doing this at night in a residential neighborhood, you'll find out soon enough what people think of this 'invention'.

I think this thing is silly, for sure.

You're definitely correct about this being something that wouldn't fly well in residential neighborhoods. It also doesn't seem like people in residential neighborhoods are their target market. At all.

On the gripping hand, this is the type of thing that someone would attach to their bike for a few weeks or so, and then never put on again.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#38

Pretty cool. But the coconut should be included. IMHO. I can see how a whimsical/retro thing like this might appeal to some.

Including the coconut for those who live in a temperate zone and don't have a large swallow population to rely on would definitely have been a nice touch.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#39

If I see someone riding a bike with one of these things attached to it, I'll call the police. I find it unacceptable for people to make lots of noise for no good reason. Try doing this at night in a residential neighborhood, you'll find out soon enough what people think of this 'invention'.

I suppose loud cars, motorbikes, garbage trucks, and screaming children are okay?

I'm all for quiet spaces but it seems the world is rife with noise.

For a novelty product I think it is quite clever and hilarious.

Re: Trotify: make your bicycle sound like a horse [video]

#40
The video made me giggle a lot but whyyyyyy is there not any sound of the device working in it? I mean really. We should have been hearing it after the device was assembled.

Yes there's the little tiny video of a prototype way down on the bottom of the page. That's not enough. That main video needs to have the actual sound of the actual product in it; I want to see a close-up of it doing its thing while hearing sound that seems synchronized to the motion. I want to know that yes, this really does what it's advertised as doing, and claps the coconut halves together in a "horse trotting" pattern.

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