Just met Bill Darby, bent & trike builder - wow!

Carol,
If all you need is assist for climbing hills, why not use electrical power
assist?
It is already available, easy to use, and will probably cost less and weigh
less than what you are trying to accomplish.
Marvin
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"Carol Cohen" wrote in message
om...
Sticker Jim, you are envisioning the problems of position shift very
clearly! One would have to move fast and not lose balance during the
shift.

Today I was in Montreal trying out the semi-recumbent folding bike by
Belize in Canada -- they call it the "Easy Rider", can you believe
this?

"Marvin" mawego at comcast.net wrote in message
Why not use electrical power? Answers:

1. I have my hpv pride. No trikes or electric motors til I'm 75.
(about 10 more years)
2. I've heard those elec. motors. They whine. The only whining on my
bike will be, as you can understand by now, my own.

C.C.

...
Carol,
If all you need is assist for climbing hills, why not use electrical power
assist?
It is already available, easy to use, and will probably cost less and weigh
less than what you are trying to accomplish.
Marvin

skip wrote:

I have a hard time picturing Carol on a Kochanowski hybrid creation knocking
over people's garbage cans in the back alleys of Cambridge. Truth is I have
a hard time imaging anyone other than Joe riding one of those things.

Kent Peterson's article [1] on the Kochanowski built "Joetator" is well
worth a read, and will shed light on the above comment.

[1] RCN #45 (May/June 1998, pp. 47-49)

Tom Sherman - Near the confluence of the Mississippi and Rock Rivers

Carol, I think the proposed riding position would shift your c of g so far
forward as to make a bike unrideable regardless of climbing angle. The
whole idea of the acrobatics involved in your concept to go from a supine
to vertical to supine position sounds deadly dangerous!
"Carol Cohen" wrote in message
om...
Yes, Geoff, I've seen the Redundant in action and although I admire
George Reynold's clever creativity (and also welding), I'd like a bent
that one wouldn't have to stop, get off of, flip a saddle forward,
then remount; plus, the Redundant has to carry the weight of 2 sets of
cranks, pedals and chains (and saddle). And it's short wheelbase,
which I'm not comfortable on.

What I'd like is a long wheelbase bent with only 1 crankset and seat,
which has a handlebar which can somehow be unlocked quickly and
flipped forward (using a modified form of the flip-it?) to clear the
way for one to stand on the pedals, only on the uphills (because on
the level, that position would probably overbalance the bike forward).
Then at the top of the hill one sits down, releases the 2-position
handlebar lock, pulls it toward one and locks it in the original
position.

Is this impossible?

Sorry, fellow old a.r.b.r's, for beating this dead horse. I know I
brought this up a couple of years ago. Maybe flip-it technology has
improved since then.

C.C.,Rider
P.S. - I'd like to go on Scott's annual ride but I wish he'd change
the location. I'm bored with the wooded backroads of Dover and
Natick.


geoff adams wrote in message
news:eCJgb.9436$N94.6061@lakeread02...
Hey, Carol....

Darby's bikes and trikes are wonderful!

your desire for a standup/sitdown bike. Surely you know
about George Reynolds and his Redundant?

See Bryan Ball's interview he

http://www.bentrideronline.com/Vol24/georgereynolds.htm

Hope to see you on Scott's ride on the 19th!!

-Geoff