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Community => Muppets Threads! (And Anything Else) => Topic started by: JWestland on April 01, 2013, 12:28:23 AM
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http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=44555
http://www.lfgss.com/thread4037-574.html
Hilarious or enraging depending on your constitution :)
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Amazing how "Ew!" and "Ooh!" sound almost the same...but mean the polar opposite. :D
Best,
Dan. (...Ew!...and...Ooh!)
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à chacun son goût, I guess...the wooden one can't hold a candle to Leonardo's protoype of all those years ago. Good effort, but still...
Amazin' what human disingenuity can do to clutter up such a simple and in-principle elegant idea, innit?
J.
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à chacun son goût, I guess...the wooden one can't hold a candle to Leonardo's protoype of all those years ago.
Don't tell me that you believe that well-known myth and forgery ???
http://www.cyclepublishing.com/history/leonardo%20da%20vinci%20bicycle.html
http://pryordodge.com/The_Bicycle_Leonardo.html
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Saw a nice set of wooden mockups based on his mechanical drawings, on display in both Canada & Italy -- several museums sucked in too? (Don't have my reference book with me here in Oz--will have to double-check when I get back home.)
National honour at stake, I guess--similar to the US/Russia/UK debate about baseball/beisbol, or Canda v The World about hockey...
Hoax or no, I thought it more coherent than the Ikea lamination.
J.
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What gear inches do you think this chap was pulling?
(http://i1264.photobucket.com/albums/jj490/longbody1/Meiffrit_01.jpg)
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Maybe the backward front fork has a multiplier effect? maybe the course was all downhill?
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Maybe the backward front fork has a multiplier effect? maybe the course was all downhill?
I hadn't noticed the forks as I couldn't take my eyes off that chainring...
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Maybe the backward front fork has a multiplier effect? maybe the course was all downhill?
So as to pace a derny or pace car closer, and gives greater steering trail for high speeds.
This guy (John Howard) had an even bigger gear on an equally crazy bike.
(http://i19.tinypic.com/8bqd1t1.jpg)
Then there is Eric Barone's bike - ridden in Nicaragua (http://youtu.be/JLRDRzMWIsg), and despite all that he's still at it (http://www.verbinet.com/events/news/verbier-world-record-mountain-bike-attempt-on-snow.html) :o Maybe snow's softer ??
(http://static2.verbinet.com/image_uploader/photos_7c/large/eric-barone.jpg)
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Great stuff! Barone looks like a latter-day Ned Kelly. On the Howard pic: Seems to be something about the Utah salt flats that make people do wild things, like Rollie Free riding a Vincent in 1948 in his swimming trunks. But as either one of them might've said, "If it works, do it."
J.
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I guess there's highly complicated and technical reasons why John's bike looks like that...but at first sight I would say it's a definite candidate for "when things go wrong" :)
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Aye, he's certainly pulling some large gear inches with the doubling up on chain and cogs, probably more inpressive gear inch figures but I still think the pure physical size of the earlier chainring looks more impressive to me.
Barone was/is certainly a very brave chap, both of them speed freaks, lol. Speaking of brave, impressive, speed freak cyclists there are many, amongst other total nutters on this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFT-7iYzmo
Aren't People Awesome, Gopro has certainly helped show more of them.....
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I guess there's highly complicated and technical reasons why John's bike looks like that...but at first sight I would say it's a definite candidate for "when things go wrong" :)
And this is it - 152.2 miles of reasons ;)
(http://www.canosoarus.com/08LSRbicycle/Bicycle%20Images/152%20in%20tow.JPG)
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Holy cow, and I thought those Dutch bikes made for drafting with 66/11 rings (you need somebody to start you, and they were drafting normal cars) were mad ;D
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Howard was hanging on or towed up to about 80-90mph :o then let go and rode it up to the 152.2.
How about this one? Not a speedster I'll guess ::)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3525/3297750303_de0df15c89_z.jpg)
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I really don't understand why you would...no I don't.
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There some interesting bikes here:
http://www.bikeforest.com/homebuild29.php
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Lots of creative homebuilds there :)
None I would ride, but I guess if you make a bike yourself you don't do it to please others anyway.
Recumbents are interesting but for city ride I wouldn't really, too low it's hard enough to be spotted as it is...