New seat to protect you from cancer-causing motorcycles… wait… what?
March 17th, 2009
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If safety is your number one concern when picking a vehicle, chances are that vehicle won’t be a motorcycle. Motorcycles definitely have some appealing qualities, being fast, maneuverable and giving a sense of freedom to the rider who is straddling the engine and using their own body weight to help control turns. However, motorcycles are not exactly the most crash-survivable vehicles. They don’t have seat belts, not that it really matters given their size, so if you hit something and thereby come to a sudden stop, you’re likely to go flying (ballistic flight, not aerodynamic flight). If impacted, there’s not much to protect the driver from trauma and unlike cars, which rarely flip over, being knocked off balance can lead to a deadly crash.
Therefore, it seems like the motorcycle-riding type is going to be a bit less concerned about the long term health effects of riding than the feel of the wind and the freedom of the open road. Just the same, some idiot decided to cash in on trying to sell cancer-blocking equipment to motorcycle riders.
But just how the hell can a motorcycle give you cancer? The answer is it can’t, but since the facts never stopped someone from trying to cash in on something, the claim is that motorcycles, and the seats especially, can expose riders to electromagnetic fields that can cause not only cancer, but a variety of other ailments, many of them sexual in nature, making this whole thing all the more scary.
MOTORCYCLE CANCER? is a must read for all riders. Undetected for so many years motorcycle extremely low frequency electromagnetic field (ELF EMF) radiation is now exposed for its danger right between the legs.
Many motorcycles generate potentially carcinogenic ELF EMFs directly into the rider’s groin flooding the entire torso. This can increase the risk of developing lymphomas, leukemia or cancers of the prostate, testicle, colon, bladder, kidney, liver, pancreas, stomach, etc. Both the heart and immune system can also be at risk for disorder or malfunction. Infertility, sterility, erectile dysfunction, impotence, prostatitis, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)-prostate enlargement, urinary problems, infections and loss of libido could also be side effects of excessive ELF EMF radiation penetrating the groin.
Motorcycles consist of oscillating current electrical systems generating anywhere from 10,000 to 70,000 volts of electricity during operation. Many motorcycles have excessive ELF EMF producing electrical components located beneath the rider’s seat away from the engine heat.
I have read up to 500 milliGauss (mG) of ELF EMF radiation above motorcycle seats zapping the prostate and groin. In contrast, many doctors raise cancer concerns involving 3 to 5 mG of exposure from hydro tower power lines and other sources. Please refer to excerpts on page 2 below.
I am sharing my story to generate worldwide urgent attention to this potentially devastating discovery. I have met countless avid motorcycle riders diagnosed with similar forms of cancers and disorders. All of these riders had a type of ELF EMF radiation penetrating up from their motorcycle seats.
Yeah. That’s right. First it was cell phones. Then it was wifi and then it was all things wireless. And now, it’s the ignition system on a motorcycle.
But just buying the book isn’t going to help you if you ride a motorcycle. No, you need Chipkar Health Concepts Limited’s RiderSaver™. And what is this “Ridesaver” you ask?
Well, it’s a special sheiding product that goes on the seat of your motorcycle with just a few simple steps. Just remove the fabric and any cushioning from your seat, use the templet to cut the material to the right size and shape, apply the self-adhesive sheilding material to the seams, add some glue and then set the sheilding in place while it cures.
And once it’s all done you can put the trim back on and you’ll have a stylish and radiation-blocking seat that looks like this:
Now that should surely improve the safety of a motorcycle, right? I do have to wonder how comfortable it would be to sit on a metal plate on top of the vibrating motor or to hit a pothole while sitting on that thing.
Did that seem too complicated for you? Well, if you buy this thing then there’s a good chance your IQ is in the single digits, so the site does mention that it might not be the best idea for riders to do this themselves:
The RiderSaver™ EMF shielding retrofit procedure for motorcycle seats is easy to follow and simple to understand. However, motorcycle seat retrofitting is not for your average “do it yourself” person. Existing seat retrofitting may or may not be a simple procedure depending upon your skill and type of motorcycle seat. Motorcycle seats can be intricate to work with. Basically, you don’t want to make a mess of your seat. Proper seat shield retrofitting requires a skilled craftsman in the upholstery or seat industry. We strongly recommend that consumers bring RiderSaver™ EMF shielding to a registered RiderSaver™ retrofit service provider.
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. Just go to your local Harley Davidson dealership and ask them if they offer a service to have the magnetic sheilding installed on your motorcycle seat.
Cruising the page for this product really gave me a laugh, especially the “interview” section. They’re so serious about this product but so over the top at the same time. At least there’s one good thing about this scam: I very much doubt that the crackpot who came up with this is going to get any kind of major return from it. I really doubt this is going to be the next must-have accessory at the next biker fest nor do I think you’ll see any Hells Angles riding around with this thing on their seat.
Thanks to reader Gregg for pointing this one out
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March 17th, 2009 at 7:45 am
That s the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a while and I’ve seen some dumb things! I don’t know about the safety angle though, because sure motorcycles aren’t that safe, but even if you are safety concerned, you’d also have to be an idiot to get this, or at least very paranoid and misinformed.
I really don’t think that motorcycle mechanics and dealerships are going to be lining up to register as retrofit providers either.
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March 17th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I’ve read elsewhere that there is a higher than normal incidence of erectile disfunction amongst motorcycle riders, particularly older offroad dirt bike riders. The article said that doctors attribute it to years of (somewhat cushioned) impacts to the groin, from the seat. But they were still trying to understand how it worked in case it lead tham to a treatment. I think that makes a little more sense.
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March 17th, 2009 at 8:58 am
1.) For a minute I thought this was going to be something sensible, like equipment designed to protect the rider from increased exposure to UV rays. Let’s face it, you get more sun on two wheels.
Silly me.
2.) Do they sell matching asbestos underwear? Because you’re going to need them, if you plan on putting your butt on that frying pan after it’s been sitting outside a diner for a couple of hours in an AZ afternoon.
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March 17th, 2009 at 9:58 am
This came up on Know_Nukes, too:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes/message/20923
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:05 am
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:07 am
If this stuff is there then shouldn’t it be stopped when they build the bikes?
By the way, after reading the website, those photos are interior seat pan shots. The foam and padding go over top.
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March 17th, 2009 at 10:31 am
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Yeah, ‘cuz magnetic fields are the most dangerous thing about a motorcycle, and bikers as a whole are a health-conscious lot.
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March 17th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
And cue Mr. Crackpot… aka Randall Chipkar, aka Ghost Rider… with his lame rebuttal in three… two… one…
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March 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Moose said:
Oh sorry. Yeah, I guess foam might help a bit. It still seems like the metal seat would retain more heat than the plastic kind.
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March 17th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
Brad F said:
I’ve heard of such issues also being associated with bike riding. I think it’s more likely to do with the years on the seat and the vibrations, weight distribution and bumps. makes more sense to me as well.
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March 17th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
Gee I didn’t know that: Extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields (EMFs) have ruthless penetrating magnetic field properties.”
I don’t believe I have ever heard of magnetic flux being described as ‘ruthless’ before.
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March 17th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
DV82XL said:
I understand that they are also bloodthirsty, dishonest, fiendish and occasionally hedonistic.
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March 17th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
drbuzz0 said:
Don’t forget “greedy.”
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March 18th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I wonder what’s dumber, actually believing this is necessary or helpful in preventing those non-existant cancers caused by motorcycle ignition systems, or being dumb enough to buy this thing when it is pretty damn clear that it is just some strips of sheet metal that you could easily put together with a pair of tinsnips and metallic tape.
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March 18th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
IMPOTENCE – A NATURAL CURE THAT IS CLINICALLY PROVEN?
Because of the wealth of bogus products available on the internet which are supposed to cure erectile dysfunction (impotence) in men, it is difficult to believe much if any of what you read today. I am now under the impression that the little blue pills that you can get on prescription from your local GP are often found to be fake! Such confusion would even trouble the little grey cells of Hercule Poirot himself.
The secret of any such internet search is to define your request to use keywords that really narrow down the final selection. In the case of impotence, use words like clinical trial, tested and proven solution each time adding in impotence. Whilst there are many internet companies selling male performance enhancing pills & herbs or even herbs in pill form and all are suggestive or use extreme implication to make you believe they have the elixir of life, a cure for all ills. The vast majority are little more than a bottle of snake oil under another label. Another piece of advice is take time to read the claims and documentation offered ignoring the sexy pictures and suggestive copy designed to appeal to the male machismo. Dig down and read the facts available on any site offering products that improve your bedtime prowess. If this sounds like a lot of work then you probably don’t have a problem with the strength of blood flow into your manhood. If like 1 in every 5 men in the UK today you can be found wanting in the trouser snake department come bedtime, the recent discovery of Butea Superba is important news. Available on the internet in pill form under the brand name HealthyED this non chemical herbal solution has been tested in clinical trials and proven to improve the male performance in over 80% of all men that take it. So you could trawl through the net via Google search, then carefully read the documentation and decipher the validity of the mountain of claims and counter claims made. Or you could just enter HealthyED into Google search and save a whole heap of time and effort. Happy hunting.
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March 18th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Prescription erectile dysfunction drugs work quite well for many especially when there is no real anatomical problem and just general poor circulation or general issues with circulation and bloodflow which are related to stress, high blood pressure or just aging in general. I’m talking about things like Vigara and similar drugs. These are not oversold herbal concoctions with little or no evidence supporting their inflated claims. Viagra and drugs like it directly act on circulation and blood vessels.
There are some men for whom these drugs don’t do the job because there has been some kind of injury to blood vessels, possibly from repeatedly sitting in a position that strains blood vessels and sch. In that case there are surgical methods avaliable to do things like remove damaged sections of blood vessels that supply the sexual organs and, if necessary, graft in vessels sections and such.
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March 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Bearing in mind, of course, that LOTS of snake oil peddlers are quite aware of the cachet of a clinical trial and will liberally salt their advertising copy with those words regardless of whether or not it’s really true, or whether any clinical trials were actually relevant to the claim in question. Don’t trust what you read on the Internet, unless it has a citation that you can verify and which is relevant, trustworthy, and actually supportive of the claim.
[citation needed]
Non-chemical? Then what’s in it? Void? Herbs *are* chemicals. The only people who claim otherwise are advertisers attempting to trick people into thinking that it’s safe without actually claiming that it is. (Well, other people claim that herbs are non-chemical — the people who have been fooled by the advertisers, generally.) And herbs most certainly are not guaranteed safe, so the implication is unwarranted. (Belladonna, for instance, is an herb. And many brand-name drugs are derived from plants, yet don’t get described as “herbal” because they’ve gone to the trouble of proving themselves.)
Frankly, if your plant-derived drug really does cure impotence in 80% of users (a phenomenal rate), why on earth isn’t it regulated as a drug? If it’s powerful enough to treat impotence, surely it’s dangerous if used by someone who isn’t impotent but merely considers himself “wanting in the trouser snake department” despite actually being perfectly normal physically?
I notice that you have salted your text with the words “clinical trials” and “proven” but have failed to provide any basis for your claims. You couldn’t be seeding this text for a Google search that follows your advice, could you? I notice that your username links to a site which sells the product you’ve just promoted. Given that your post is only tangentially relevant to the original post, I’m inclined to suspect that you are not here to participate in conversation but are instead attempting to boost your own website in its Google rankings. You might want to reconsider; this is a skeptical blog and will instill critical thinking skills in its readers which would be detrimental to your advertising strategy.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 5:10 pm
The starting dose for those suffering of impotence male is Vardenafil is 10 mg in use no more than one time per day. Your doctor will decide the amount that is right for you. In patients taking alpha blockers, your physician can start you on a minor dose of Vardenafil. In medical trials, the most frequently reported side effects were headache, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose. Vardenafil is presented in different dosage tablets.
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