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Why does this bike have a remote steering set up? Is this better than
the easy racers chopper type bars?
Alan

a&b wrote in :

Several years back Prince, think tennis, not TAFKAP, made a mag
racquet that didn't stand up very well to sweat. Got real pitted.
Didn't some major bike maker have a mag or mag alloy MTB frame, or
some part of it was, and it seems the same thing happened. Didn't
tolerate salt. I'm kinda fuzzy on the bike frames but I saw a bunch of
the mag racquets that looked like they'd been sand blasted from
players sweating on 'em. bill g

Yes, magnesium is quite vulnerable to corrosion. Allegedly powder coat or
anodizing takes care of this, but I would be hesitant as each of these
coatings can and will get scratched.


r
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a&b wrote in :

Several years back Prince, think tennis, not TAFKAP, made a mag
racquet that didn't stand up very well to sweat. Got real pitted.
Didn't some major bike maker have a mag or mag alloy MTB frame, or
some part of it was, and it seems the same thing happened. Didn't
tolerate salt. I'm kinda fuzzy on the bike frames but I saw a bunch of
the mag racquets that looked like they'd been sand blasted from
players sweating on 'em. bill g

Yes, magnesium is quite vulnerable to corrosion. Allegedly powder coat or
anodizing takes care of this, but I would be hesitant as each of these
coatings can and will get scratched.


r
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May all beings be happy.
May they be joyous and live in safety.
All living beings, whether weak or strong,
in high or middle or low realms of existence,
small or great, visible or invisible,
near or far, born or to be born,
Let no one deceive another, nor despise any being in any state;
Let none by anger or hatred wish harm to another.
Even as a mother at the risk of her life watches over
and protects her only child,
so with a boundless mind should one cherish all living things,

Alan Mushnick wrote:
Why does this bike have a remote steering set up? Is this better than
the easy racers chopper type bars? Alan




Go back eleven spaces (posts) and R-E-A-D "PaPa's" post. (geesh!)



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Alan Mushnick wrote:
Why does this bike have a remote steering set up? Is this better than
the easy racers chopper type bars? Alan




Go back eleven spaces (posts) and R-E-A-D "PaPa's" post. (geesh!)



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Ken Kobayashi wrote:
On 21 Oct 2003 15:51:22 +0950, PaPa
wrote:
Actually the optimal head tube angle is 90 degrees according to some
designers (including Mike Burrows - says so in his book). Nobody's done
it with a production recumbent, probably because it's only practical
with remote steering and even then it looks really weird.
Ken Kobayashi http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayash-
i/personal/http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/



I don't generally agree.

As head tube angle approaches vertical, steering sensitivity
increases (this is just one of the contributing reasons why a SWB is
reportably "twitcher" than a LWB). At say, 60 degrees head tube
angle, much of the pilot's rotational steering input actually "tilts"
the front wheel instead of rotating it. This effectively changes the
input-to-response ratio.

Pilot preference and weight, design, CG, wheel base and a host of other
factors determine "optimal head tube angle"



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Ken Kobayashi wrote:
On 21 Oct 2003 15:51:22 +0950, PaPa
wrote:
Actually the optimal head tube angle is 90 degrees according to some
designers (including Mike Burrows - says so in his book). Nobody's done
it with a production recumbent, probably because it's only practical
with remote steering and even then it looks really weird.
Ken Kobayashi http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayash-
i/personal/http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/



I don't generally agree.

As head tube angle approaches vertical, steering sensitivity
increases (this is just one of the contributing reasons why a SWB is
reportably "twitcher" than a LWB). At say, 60 degrees head tube
angle, much of the pilot's rotational steering input actually "tilts"
the front wheel instead of rotating it. This effectively changes the
input-to-response ratio.

Pilot preference and weight, design, CG, wheel base and a host of other
factors determine "optimal head tube angle"



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"EVSolutions" skrev...
Anyone see that comment in the NY Times Oct.20th where Mr.Deetz said Carbon
Fiber has a tendency to "EXPLODE" when a bike frame made from it is in a
crash. The whole article was about CF being used for bike frames and bike
parts AND it included Craig Calfee in the story. So like someone rearends
Fast Freddie's LWB and the sucker goes KaBoom...it would be sooo cool to
have cars and SUVs afraid the next bent they hit will blow up and take out
them as well.

Ah you mean the big busses they are going to hit
because they can't see anything for the fairing? ;o)

(Use carbon/kevlar and the kevlar will prevent the bike from shattering AFAIK)

Mikael

"EVSolutions" skrev...
Anyone see that comment in the NY Times Oct.20th where Mr.Deetz said Carbon
Fiber has a tendency to "EXPLODE" when a bike frame made from it is in a
crash. The whole article was about CF being used for bike frames and bike
parts AND it included Craig Calfee in the story. So like someone rearends
Fast Freddie's LWB and the sucker goes KaBoom...it would be sooo cool to
have cars and SUVs afraid the next bent they hit will blow up and take out
them as well.

Ah you mean the big busses they are going to hit
because they can't see anything for the fairing? ;o)

(Use carbon/kevlar and the kevlar will prevent the bike from shattering AFAIK)

Mikael

"Bryan Ball" skrev...

Carbon Fiber is THE material for bike frames... if you know what you're
doing. In order to do it right you have to REALLY focus on it.

Let me quote myself he
"Maybe they like titanium better?" They being Easy Racers.

Mikael