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Designers vs. engineers
On Monday, March 4, 2019 at 11:57:10 AM UTC-5, Radey Shouman wrote:
Frank Krygowski writes: On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 11:35:53 PM UTC-5, wrote: On Sunday, March 3, 2019 at 3:12:12 PM UTC-6, Frank Krygowski wrote: New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) currently features an exhibition called "The Value of Good Design." See https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5032 Unfortunately, they include the 1960's Spacelander bicycle as an example of good design! See https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibi...image_index=34 I took one for a brief test ride many years ago. MoMA's standards are certainly far different from mine. It's hard to imagine a heavier, clumsier rattletrap of a bike. Heck, I'd prefer that Fiat 500! But then, the rest of the exhibition seems to glorify the 1950s and 1960s as an era of "good design." Weird. -- - Frank Krygowski Frank, you rode the moon bike? Tell us how that came about. It was back in the 1980s or maybe 1990s at some big bike rally. Maybe in Michigan, but I'm not sure. They had a bunch of oddball bikes at that one, and people were allowed to test ride some of them. That was one. At other rallies, I got to do a short ride on my first ever recumbent (Avatar 2000) and a British upright racing tricycle. The Avatar was frustrating for 100 feet or so, until I was able to relax and let it do its own balancing. The tricycle was just scary - it seemed very unstable. My wife and I also got to try a semi-recumbent tandem, I forget the brand name, where she was in a front recumbent seat but I was on a normal upright seat behind her. That worked surprisingly well, but I guess it didn't make it in the market. I sometimes see a couple riding one of those on the local path. If you want to converse easily with your stoker it seems like the way to go. -- Remember the Buddy Bike where 2 people sat side by side instead of in tandem? I wondered if that bicycle could be ridden by just one person? Cheers |
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