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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: Andre Jute on August 26, 2014, 09:49:54 pm

Title: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: Andre Jute on August 26, 2014, 09:49:54 pm

Halfbike, for Muppets
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140826-the-bicycle-abridged (http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20140826-the-bicycle-abridged)

Title: Re: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: triaesthete on August 26, 2014, 09:53:54 pm

Two spikes make it an indulgence   :o

Title: Re: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: Andre Jute on August 27, 2014, 12:50:04 am

Pedals are an indulgence anyway once you have the post that holds the handlebars, such as they are. Instead of pedels, a milnimalist bike would operate by eccentrically connecting the bottom end of moving the handlebar to the sprocket and moving the upright backwards and forwards.

Title: Re: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: NZPeterG on August 27, 2014, 07:47:31 am

That is not half a bike!
But it is a thing for Muppets...  ;D

This is Half a Bike  :o

(https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/132552_173555849353011_5932545_o.jpg)

Yes that is a Mountain Unicycle! Muni and Yes that is Me from 2011

Keep moving to stay up and going forwards  :P

Kiwi Pete..   8)

Title: Re: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: Andre Jute on August 27, 2014, 09:08:38 am

Didn't a wise man once say, "The trouble with common sense is it is no longer common"?

Title: Re: Halfbike, for Muppets
Post by: NZPeterG on August 27, 2014, 11:44:33 am

Quote from: Andre Jute on August 27, 2014, 09:08:38 am

Didn't a wise man once say, "The trouble with common sense is it is no longer common"?

Yes! Maybe?
I have only be riding Two Wheels for the last 2.8 years.....

Kiwi Pete.....