In case anyone feels like making a billion quid and eliminating some pathetic gripes of privileged whiners like myself, here are a couple of things that you could bestow to the world. No charge.
Flip-up cycle extremities
I don’t need my bike to collapse to the size of a lunch box and I don’t want to hang it up like some kind of piece of theatre but I would like it to take up less space when I bring it into the house. A quick sizing has the bike frame well under 8″ wide yet the handle bar pushes that out to 23″. My hallway is 33″ wide. Visualise, if you will.
If I could unlock and flip the handlebar in exactly the same way as my bike clamp already does then me, my fellow cyclists and all visitors to their dwellings would be spared the merciless paunch poker. Pedals, likewise. I’ve seen them on fold-up bikes, dammit, so don’t try to tell me it’s not possible.
Tidy printout scaling
For some reason I have cut-throat airline tickets in mind for this although you only usually need to print off the first page and ignore the dozen pages of terms and conditions for those. This is the curiously common situation where a printout spills onto the last page by just a single line or two, causing a spasm at the sloppiness of it (to be recycled as eco-guilt later). Extra points for irony if the offending text is boilerplate ‘Please consider the environment think before printing this email’. This is the sort of thing that can totally suck the pleasure out of your mid-morning latte.
Yes, I know it’s possible to change the zoom in preview but how often do you do this? How hard in comparison for the printer driver to optionally squeeze or stretch the text by 10% to make best use of the paper? Please, make it so and let me find something new to bleat about. Thanks.
sixball 