When bikes go wrong... anti bike pr0n

[JWestland]

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

[Danneaux]

Amazing how "Ew!" and "Ooh!" sound almost the same...but mean the polar opposite. 

Best,

Dan. (...Ew!...and...Ooh!)

[John Saxby]

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.

[il padrone]

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

[John Saxby]

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.

[macspud]

What gear inches do you think this chap was pulling?

[John Saxby]

Maybe the backward front fork has a multiplier effect? maybe the course was all downhill?

[macspud]

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...

[il padrone]

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.





Then there is Eric Barone's bike - ridden in Nicaragua, and despite all that he's still at it   Maybe snow's softer ??

[John Saxby]

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.

[JWestland]

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"

[macspud]

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.....

[il padrone]

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  

[JWestland]

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 

[il padrone]

Howard was hanging on or towed up to about 80-90mph  then let go and rode it  up to the 152.2.


How about this one? Not a speedster I'll guess