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Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:51:02 -0400, ,
"Roger Zoul" wrote: That sounds like a typical stationary bike. Why the use of the word "spin"? Why? tsk tsk tsk Spinning ® is "The ultimate ride for body and mind". Besides we can't keep selling the SOS every year so we have to spin it differently. Spinning ® requires special licensed gloves and shorts and hats and sweat bands and you've got to get the tapes and videos and check out the awesome eight-week weight loss program and go to the meetings so maybe you too can qualify to become a certified Spinning ® instructor. http://www.spinning.com/ -- zk |
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On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 13:51:02 -0400, "Roger Zoul"
wrote: That sounds like a typical stationary bike. Why the use of the word "spin"? The primary difference is that you can set up a spin bike the same as a regular road bike. Standard bike seat, SPD pedals, same position. The advantage if you have more than one using the bike is that they are designed for spin classes, which means that you can set it up for each rider and then quickly put it back at that rider's settings. All other types of stationery bikes had all or some of the following: non-standard handlebar positions, non-standard (and cheap) pedal systems, fat and flat bike seats, difficult to change position. We have the mag trainers in the garage where there is more room. On some days, though, it is too cold to use for a quick and easy 20-30 minutes. So we spent a bit and got a bike that lets either of us get on and ride the bike in a standard position late at night. I notice that the spinning label seems to bother some - can't worry about people that make the trivial a major issue in their life. FWIW, I've since found that they aren't that loud, although not as quiet as the mag trainer. Surprising, since they use a pressure brake on the fly wheel for resistance - I would have expected more noise. Curtis L. Russell Odenton, MD (USA) Just someone on two wheels... |
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Thu, 07 Oct 2004 15:58:08 -0400,
, Curtis L. Russell wrote: I notice that the spinning label seems to bother some - can't worry about people that make the trivial a major issue in their life. You mean the Spinning ® label. It's like Starbucks trademarking "christmas blend". A trivial issue, indeed, when we have to buy back our language from multi-national corporations. -- zk |
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"Zoot Katz" wrote in message
... , Curtis L. Russell I notice that the spinning label seems to bother some - can't worry about people that make the trivial a major issue in their life. You mean the Spinning ® label. It's like Starbucks trademarking "christmas blend". A trivial issue, indeed, when we have to buy back our language from multi-national corporations. I'm going to xerox your e-mail and fed-ex it to my congressman to see if he can come up with some band-aid solution. (my point: the language goes both ways) |
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Sat, 9 Oct 2004 11:11:48 -0500,
1097338456.H6WwuI3GJc9MPbK9RnxIeQ@teranews, "Mike Kruger" wrote: I notice that the spinning label seems to bother some - can't worry about people that make the trivial a major issue in their life. You mean the Spinning ® label. It's like Starbucks trademarking "christmas blend". A trivial issue, indeed, when we have to buy back our language from multi-national corporations. I'm going to xerox your e-mail and fed-ex it to my congressman to see if he can come up with some band-aid solution. (my point: the language goes both ways) Photocopies these days are made on machines other than Xerox. That word didn't exist in our language until Xerox paid people to invent it. Xerox would be entitled because they invented the word, the same as Kleenex, Windex or Spam. Those words have entered the vernacular and have become useful. Their use outside the vernacular remains tightly constrained by trademark laws. It's a different situation when somebody appropriates and trademarks words like "spinning" or "entrepreneur". Words that were already in our language. "You're fired" and "fair and balanced" are trademarked. As is "the brilliance of common sense", words and phrases that have meaning beyond the trademark owners' limited application. Phrases such as "mickey mouse", "breakfast of champions" or "heartbeat of america" have been painted into a corner by advertising and marketing by mass media for a consumer culture and then held ransom by the trademarks owners' and their fleet of lawyers. - - - hired with the royalties paid, for using our own language. It's ludicrous. It's a different situation again when we adopt acronyms such as LASER and RADAR. No one, AFAIK, is required to pay licensing fees to use those words for describing their product that performs those functions. Unlike Unix. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but it seems to be already be a given that yours or mine DNA can be copyrighted by someone else. -- zk |
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