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Old 07-31-16 | 10:37 AM
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www.beakorcycling.com
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Old 07-31-16 | 01:07 PM
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So they put this disclaimer in their video:

By law and for your own safety, it is important to wear a helmet at all time cycling.
And then the video and their photos show almost all of the cyclist without a helmet.
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Old 07-31-16 | 01:16 PM
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At least CB HI was brave enough to follow the link - me I don't follow blind links with no indication of the subject matter.
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Old 07-31-16 | 01:25 PM
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That isn't a very good video.
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Old 07-31-16 | 01:36 PM
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Originally Posted by howsteepisit
At least CB HI was brave enough to follow the link - me I don't follow blind links with no indication of the subject matter.
I did a search to see if the company was real first and then had the mouse ready to close the page if anything looked funny.
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Old 07-31-16 | 01:48 PM
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Originally Posted by CB HI
I did a search to see if the company was real first and then had the mouse ready to close the page if anything looked funny.
Especially from someone with 16 posts.

I use a Mozilla add-on called Bluhell Firewall that blocks harmful sites. It is a tad conservative and always errors on the safe side. Before going to the suspect page you are given the opportunity to abort, continue this once, or trust the site.

A product called Malwarebytes offers a free and a cheap malware warning, blocker, and removal program for PCs. It will drive you crazy with warnings in three stages - Green, Amber, and Red (OK, Suspect, and Known bad sites). But you are unlikely to ever mess up and get an infection.

^^This being said...better safe than sorry. Or just get a MAC.
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Old 07-31-16 | 02:29 PM
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Especially from someone with 16 posts.
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But none of the prior post were spam or off topic.
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Old 07-31-16 | 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by CB HI
But none of the prior post were spam or off topic.
I did not research his posts. I copy/pasted the actual URL as it appeared on his post as it was not a hot link in my browser. The site did not activate any malware alerts on my end and the site looked legit, although not very well done. So I didn't give it another thought until others here seemed concerned. Not a dig on the OP in any way.
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Old 07-31-16 | 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by howsteepisit
At least CB HI was brave enough to follow the link - me I don't follow blind links with no indication of the subject matter.
I figured somebody else could be the guinea pig and find out if the link was legit. If no one one wanted to, no loss.
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Old 07-31-16 | 06:43 PM
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It's another hi-tech device to warn the cyclist that motorists behind you are trying to push you off the road. It gives you messages and visual from your smartphone what is behind you so you and your friends watching on-line live can witness you being bullied off the road.
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Old 07-31-16 | 06:46 PM
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The video is well done in cinematic terms, but doesn't actually demonstrate most of the features claimed for the product.

https://vimeo.com/172803761

Beakor demo video
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Old 07-31-16 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JoeyBike
Especially from someone with 16 posts
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Sorry but my english is not so well so I don't write here much.. just thought it can be interesting for some people.
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Old 08-01-16 | 12:13 AM
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Originally Posted by amos77
Sorry but my english is not so well so I don't write here much.. just thought it can be interesting for some people.
Your English is fine. Better than some USA posters.

When I first saw your post with just a link, I thought it was spam but then I looked at your join date and the 16 post, which is a higher count than spammers are normally able to reach before being banned.

The suggestion is to add text about the link. The video was worth watching even if some of us are not all that interested in the idea. Keep posting.
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Old 08-01-16 | 09:48 AM
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...so you and your friends watching on-line live can witness you being bullied off the road.
I had a silly close call this morning that would have looked great on a backward camera. Fork in the road and car behind me on my left decided to take the right fork despite my presence between those two points. Luckily they looked up from their phone (or whatever) just in time to hit the brakes and miss my back wheel by about a foot. Would have looked great on video. I happy I didn't have some freaking alarm screaming at me at the same time tho.

If I had run that last red light instead of being lazy there would have been no incident with THAT car. Maybe some other car.
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