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Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage

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Re: Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage

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Post by rob74 »

amelius wrote: post #28

Missed opportunity to use the wheels for the suitcase also. (By the way, I'm looking for a suitcase with air pressure wheels)

Yeah, if the suitcase weighs 32 kg, you'd definitely want to have some wheels on it!

Or (keeping with the technology available at the time) just go with a foldable bicycle - not as fast, but much lighter and more practical!

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Post by dmurray »

amelius wrote: post #28

Missed opportunity to use the wheels for the suitcase also. (By the way, I'm looking for a suitcase with air pressure wheels)

It looks like the wheels could stay attached to the outside of the suitcase. It means leaving it in the less standard configuration to pull around (landscape rather than portrait) but that can be overcome with a longer handle.

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Post by saaspirant »

spacemule wrote: post #25

The cookie consent banner here is the ultimate dark pattern. No deny all option, and the options are impossible to determine. Is the first toggle to turn on or off? I assume on, but that's not labelled anywhere. Based on convention, I'd assume to the right is enabled, but it's entirely against their interests to have it default to off.

I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

Re: Mazda suitcase car, a portable three-wheeled vehicle that fits in the luggage

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

amelius wrote: post #30
aidenn0 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, why do you want pneumatic wheels on your suitcase?

Sound, mostly. But also helps with vibrations if I'm carrying sensitive equipment.

One idea: Buy one of these (https://www.harborfreight.com/150-lb-capacity-foldable-hand-...) and turn it into this (https://images.turnto.com/media/t7kuhATX6jW2ChSsite/5A481415...). If you want to keep it foldable, instead of an axle going all the way through, use either a long bolt or threaded rod, with nuts and lock washers, to attach a smaller pneumatic wheel to each side (threaded rod goes through plastic enclosure, nuts/lock washers keep it locked on either side of plastic housing, wheel fixed on outside with bushings or cotter pin)

Or you could strap your bag to a kayak cart (https://www.amazon.com/Kayak-Cart-Capacity-Foldable-Watercra...)

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Post by Our_Benefactors »

scirob wrote: post #47

that full screen yellow cockie consent confirmation is next level. Is there anyway to fight back against this madness. Maybe just not using the internet anymore other than through AI summaries of websites ;(

Just hide the element with an adblocker. Most of them don’t care to disable content/scrolling under the modal.

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Post by qingcharles »

IAmBroom wrote: post #19
shmeeed wrote: post #3

O sweet times when it was imaginable to have a combustion engine weighing 32 kg in your check-in luggage. I sincerely wonder if this wasn't hazmat back then?

Pre-2001 was... different. I was stopped by the metal detector at an airport. I didn't know why. Then the guy in the lane next to me said, "Oh, I'm wearing steel-toed boots." I said, "Oh, I am too." (True) Without any further questions or checking, they let us both through. "That? It's just a giant, red, spherical Christmas ornament, with a string to hang it by, that happens to smell of gunpowder... and the monogram…

In ~1997 I got stuck in a huge traffic jam on the way to Heathrow airport. I arrived about 15 mins before my UK->USA flight was to leave. At the check-in desk I handed them my extremely worn passport and the photo just fell out of the back page as they took it. They were like "Er, hold on a sec" and disappeared for a min. Then they came back, handed me the passport and the photo and said "RUN! YOU CAN MAKE IT!" and I did.

Wild times. Planes still had their ashtrays then too.

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