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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Hey, Here's Gus's newest creation, a 7 foot coker giraffe. [image: http://Studentweb.uwstout.edu/dingem.../guscoker.jpg] Currently It's running 170mm cranks and is geared down to approximately a 27" wheel, giving a surprising amount of control. It rides very smooth overall, and the massive rotational wieght isn't obvious durring idling. In action: [image: http://studentweb.uwstout.edu/dingem.../maxcoker.jpg] It'll also be available to ride durring Mondo Jugglefest (http://www.mondofest.org/) -- Max_Dingemans ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Max_Dingemans's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1981 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
young man!.....get down from there. your going to hurt yourself..... -- jagur What might Sinter Klaas_Bil you for this year? -forget_your_life- -------------------------------------- -------*muni militia *------- *one wheeled death squad* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jagur's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/502 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Very cool! Nice going, Gus! -- U-Turn Weep in the dojo... laugh on the battlefield. 'LiveWire Unicycles' (http://www.livewireunicycles.com) 'Strongest Coker Wheel in the World' (http://www.unicyclist.com/gallery/albup39) '29er Tire Study' (http://u-turn.unicyclist.com/29erTireStudy/) 'New York Unicycle Club' (http://www.newyorkunicycle.com) -- Dave Stockton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ U-Turn's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/691 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Looks like a fun ride. You should try gearing it up to add to the insanity of it all. -- siafirede ------------------------------------------------------------------------ siafirede's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/6057 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
That's one good looking machine. A friend of mine recently returned from living in the UK for about two years, filled with horror-stories about single-chained giraffes. Apparantly there is nobody in the UK who's got a single good thing to say about them his 5-footer drew some disparaging looks from people he worked with on entertainment gigs. To see a single chain on this raffie makes me wonder if it's all hot air or if the Americans are just fearless? -- GILD 'three short gs and a long e-flat' (http://w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/beethoven_sym5_1.wav) - 'map' (http://www.frappr.com/unicycleworld) '\\"freedom is just chaos, with better lighting.\\" entropy' (http://tinyurl.com/77lom) 'harper' (http://tinyurl.com/c9epx) 'NAMASTE!' (http://tinyurl.com/4qcxw) 'Dave' (http://www.lyricsdir.com/d/deep-purp...ld-in-time.php) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GILD's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/657 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
looks perfect for Uni basketball -- Daytripper63 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daytripper63's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10789 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Rad! What a beautiful machine! My suggestion for a wild coker-related creation is a coker 2-wheeler. BTW the freestyle frame Gus built for me is still going strong - I'm very happy with it. -- TonyMelton The way to a man's heart is through his veins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TonyMelton's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/2118 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Wow! Would that hold up to any Muni? -- burjzyntski It's no good being Polish unless you prove it once a day. \"every silver lining has a touch of gray.\" \"drunk drivers run stop signs, stoned drivers wait for them to turn green.\" -'SDASD' (http://cannabisculture.com/articles/4131.html) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ burjzyntski's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10188 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
I have ridden this beast several times at our club practices. Giraffes aren't really my thing, and I haven't done much riding on anything quite that tall, so I'm not entirely comfortable on it, but I don't find it terribly difficult. It's an interesting ride. The wheel of course has much more mass and momentum than you expect to be dealing with on a giraffe, and the times I've had to bail off of it have been when I've been trying to make tight turns. I can idle it fairly easily. I tried idling it one-footed a few nights ago but only managed a couple of idles. I keep pressuring Gus to gear the thing up to one-to-one, so it will be a TRUE Coker giraffe. Whether or not I would then have the guts to ride it is another question. Whether something can be done, and whether it should be done, are often two different issues... It looks even taller and more fearsome in person than it does in Max's picture. Single chains worry me on giraffes of all sizes. I try not to think about it when I'm riding. -- weeble ====================== To avoid danger of suffocation keep away from babies and small children ====================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------ weeble's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/1625 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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MaxDaddyCycles Newest Creation
Why do people dislike single chain drives? I've never had the chance to deal with a giraffe, so could you please inform me abit? -- Spudman *| B B|* This space owned by Fly '' (http://www.unicyclist.com/forums/VBGooglemap.php) *| I O |* This space owned by Frees*TYLER!* *| L A |* *MERCYME owns this space!!!* *| L R |* This space owned by unijesse *|__'-' (www.selectric.org)____'D' (http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/index.html)___|* This space rendered by forrest ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spudman's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/10752 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/45041 |
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