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Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by mkagenius »

throwaway5d097 wrote: post #5
mkagenius wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to highlight to our American friends that its not pronounced as Nay-Paul. No. Its pronounced as Nay-Paal.

With languages that are not written phonetically with wide regional variations in pronunciation (English), I think it makes sense to not care as long as you're understood. Might as well demand that Japan be pronounced Neep-on or Cuba Cooba and not Cyooba.

Let's start fixing one by one. Why are you against learning to properly correct as you go along, the list is long doesn't mean we should not correct even one of them.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by mayniac »

ivanvanderbyl wrote: post #11
clort wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I felt that the site was a tease. The pictures way too close up, not showing you the whole thing, hidden in the dark. When I finally reached a picture of the device, I thought the very square 'battery' (?) looked chunky. "And now for something completely different" more pictures of the same (or very similar?) except with a tablet glued on. Marketing.

I hope that's not a touch screen. Anyone who has ever ridden a bike can tell you how impractical and distracting that would be. Try using it in the rain, with gloves on.

Definitely looks like a touch screen interface from the photos.

The screen itself is distracting enough even without being a touchscreen. I really disklike the tesla-esque design with it, it feels completely wrong for a bike.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by mantap »

sm4rk0 wrote: post #14
throwaway5d097 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With languages that are not written phonetically with wide regional variations in pronunciation (English), I think it makes sense to not care as long as you're understood. Might as well demand that Japan be pronounced Neep-on or Cuba Cooba and not Cyooba.

While we're here, μ and π are not myoo and pie , but me and pee : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28yu1PFc438

In Greek not in English though. In spoken English "Pee" is urine, not the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.

Also it's worth noting that Ancient Greek and Modern Greek have different pronunciations. Some of the English pronunciations are actually more 'correct' than the Modern Greek names, e.g. the English pronunciation of Gamma.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by dfee »

mkagenius wrote: post #2

May I take this opportunity to highlight to our American friends that its not pronounced as Nay-Paul. No. Its pronounced as Nay-Paal.

Here is a list of English words with two consecutive a’s: https://www.morewords.com/contains-by-length/aa

Despite having a cumulative 8 years of foreign language courses against three different languages, I have no clue how you’re expecting me to pronounce “paal”.

Is it “pal” - like friend / buddy? “Pail” - like something you’d carry water in? Something else?

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by aaron695 »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #20
aaron695 wrote: post #16

People in Nepal and developing countries need cheap/er gasoline powered motorcycles/scooters. I'd start with people with first world problems to develop the tech. Anyway, video, what they have done seems pretty insane given the timeline, not sure how much is off the shelf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBNV2gbrswg

No, they need western help to skip right past fossil fuel infrastructure. It should probably be a key requirement of any western aid or trade.

No, they need to be allowed to use fossil fuel infrastructure to develop just like us.

The arrogance we have developed such that none of us in the first world uses or have used electric bikes predominately in our families, now, or a 100 years ago by our ancestors when they first appeared and were about technologically the same as today.

This, it's good enough for them idea is astounding. This road has been well travelled.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by mayniac »

milap wrote: post #25

Here is a video of the motorbike running in the Himalayas https://youtu.be/uNKIqbdIS9o

Not a single shot of the bike going around a corner...

Those footpegs look very low. At 0:32 it looks like the rider's toes are only an inch away from the ground.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by NeedMoreTea »

aaron695 wrote: post #26
NeedMoreTea wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they need western help to skip right past fossil fuel infrastructure. It should probably be a key requirement of any western aid or trade.

No, they need to be allowed to use fossil fuel infrastructure to develop just like us. The arrogance we have developed such that none of us in the first world uses or have used electric bikes predominately in our families, now, or a 100 years ago by our ancestors when they first appeared and were about technologically the same as today. This, it's good enough for them idea is astounding. This road has been well trave…

Don't get me wrong, I'd like the West to rip out all fossil infrastructure as soon as possible, so we're using electric cars and bikes too. I figure it's better for us and them.

Why is it any different to the developing world experience of mobile phones? They expanded directly to mobiles without any landline phase first, and because of that have been surprisingly successful. Do you claim Western arrogance here?

If we simply shrug and let all the developing countries go via the worst of Victorian era coal, then 20th century oil, RCP 8.5 starts to look like an optimistic pipe dream. Everyone will suffer.

Re: Yatri: First electric motorcycle to be made in Nepal

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Post by nickfromseattle »

mayniac wrote: post #27
milap wrote: post #25

Here is a video of the motorbike running in the Himalayas https://youtu.be/uNKIqbdIS9o

Not a single shot of the bike going around a corner... Those footpegs look very low. At 0:32 it looks like the rider's toes are only an inch away from the ground.

Based on :017 and 0:38 the footpegs appear to be at the same level as the center of the wheel.

An SV650 appears to have slightly higher pegs.

I agree they look low, but checking out other bikes they appear to be in similar places.

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