New bike design

moonio
moonio Posts: 802
edited November 2008 in Commuting chat
It might catch on
http://www.itnsource.com/archivedata/Me ... 0-2927.mov

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  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    WTF :shock:

    I have enough trouble carrying my lardy arse around, without adding to the weight!!!!!!!!
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • BUICK
    BUICK Posts: 362
    I was wondering to myself today how successful a four person cycle could be - with the format being 2 x 2 so that as a unit the cycle would be quite wide and stable and take up road space more like a car, with a fourhumanpower motor. Get a bit of aero fairing on the front and it could make for a pretty speedy vehicle... as long as you always had 3 willing friends that wanted to do the same journey! Would be a fun way to do a 'team' race though on a closed circuit.
    '07 Langster (dropped one tooth from standard gearing)
    '07 Tricross Sport with rack and guards
    STUNNING custom 953 Bob Jackson *sigh*
  • tardington
    tardington Posts: 1,379
    BUICK wrote:
    I was wondering to myself today how successful a four person cycle could be - with the format being 2 x 2 so that as a unit the cycle would be quite wide and stable and take up road space more like a car, with a fourhumanpower motor. Get a bit of aero fairing on the front and it could make for a pretty speedy vehicle... as long as you always had 3 willing friends that wanted to do the same journey! Would be a fun way to do a 'team' race though on a closed circuit.

    They have one up for Edinburgh Bike Week, and people cycle (drive?) it around. Looks quite cool! Steered with a steering wheel if I remember right.
  • BUICK
    BUICK Posts: 362
    That's awesome!
    '07 Langster (dropped one tooth from standard gearing)
    '07 Tricross Sport with rack and guards
    STUNNING custom 953 Bob Jackson *sigh*
  • Madcyclepath
    Madcyclepath Posts: 49
    I'm not sure if it's produced any more but a british disabled cycling specialist used to make a bike like this. The chair was detachable from the bike so when you arrived at your destination you just flicked down a kick-stand on the wheelchair, and refitted the 2nd wheel (stored in a bag on the back of the chair) and hey presto! you have a normal wheelchair again.

    Can't say it was the easiest thing to ride (as you would imagine, it didn't like cambers on roads!). It did the job though and also looked pretty mad when riding it with no one in the wheel chair as the easiest way was to lean over to counterbalance the chair so the 3rd wheel was off the ground :lol:

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