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BIG WHEEL! BIG WHEEL!
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:25 pm
by DerGolgo
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/you_r ... _the_m.php
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THE BIG WHEEL SPEAKS TO ALL OF US!
AS DOES ROY G BIV!
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 2:57 pm
by MagnusTheBuilder
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 3:03 pm
by Beemer Dan
Badass!! Needs a 500 double stroke motor, machine guns and a brass chicken front fender ornament!
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:03 pm
by Zim
Looks like trouble if it falls over.
I want that horn though.
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2010 5:09 pm
by DerGolgo
Nah, penny-farthing is single-track.
One large wheel pedal-powered up front, two small wheels in the back, that's a big wheel.
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:31 am
by MagnusTheBuilder
I am going to argue that it is in fact a single track. The front tire is as wide as the rear tire"s", that in my book makes it a single track and therefore a modern badass penny farthing, just a really wide one. I stand by my statement.
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:55 pm
by DerGolgo
MagnusTheBuilder wrote:I am going to argue that it is in fact a single track. The front tire is as wide as the rear tire"s", that in my book makes it a single track and therefore a modern badass penny farthing, just a really wide one. I stand by my statement.
But a penny farthing doesn't remain upright on it's own, whereas this (see around the 1 minute mark) may wobble sideways at the front but is kept upright by the back wheels. So while the front wheel would allow leaning, is in fact so unstable that it won't remain upright on it's own, the back wheels provide the support, consequently influencing the ride characteristics in the aforementioned big wheel manner, to wit, it cannot lean into a corner (beyond the flexing of the dodgy frame) without at least one wheel loosing surface contact.
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:25 pm
by Beemer Dan
I think I've ridden this bike in those nightmares where I'm lost in a crappy neighborhood and running late to work and there are poodles running everywhere.
Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 4:53 pm
by DerGolgo
Beemer Dan wrote:I think I've ridden this bike in those nightmares where I'm lost in a crappy neighborhood and running late to work and there are poodles running everywhere.
Hmm.
*splat*splat*splat*splat*
"FUCK YOU, BOSSMAN! FREE MEAT FOR THE POOR!"
*splat*splat*splat*splat*
Not the worst kind of nightmare I could imagine.
