"Liquid Drive" bike prototype at auction

Rick Onanian wrote:
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 23:35:44 -0600, Tom Sherman
wrote:
Rick Onanian wrote:
... How about a bike shaped like a cow? That would be cool....

See http://www.chicagotraveler.com/cows/235.jpg]http://www.chicagotra-
veler.com/cows/235.jpg[/url]
That's a trike. Close enough...where can I get one?
Tom Sherman - Planet Earth
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Rick "Moooooooo" Onanian



Not a bike or trike but a quad:

http://www.spril.com/images/KineticSculpture2002/

Have a cow man.



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Tom Sherman wrote in message ...
Richard wrote:

Tom Sherman wrote in message ...
I occasionally see recumbents wobbling along on
my local bicycle path, but have never inspected
a dead one's anatomy--possibly there is a secret
recumbent graveyard.

I certainly did not write the above text. Please be more careful with
your attributions when quoting.

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

My apologies, Tom. I lost track of which post I snipped out a part to respond to.
Richard

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Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

Dear Tom,

How do you scratch your nose in that
impressive body-sock?

Carl Fogel

Carl Fogel wrote:

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Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

Dear Tom,

How do you scratch your nose in that
impressive body-sock?

There are zippered armholes in each side for hand signaling and there is
also a zipper along the top of the sock.

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

meb wrote:
...

Didn't Freddie Markham join the 70 mph club in the last couple of
months?

Yes and no. "Fast Freddie" had a run exceeding 70-mph, but the wind
conditions were not legal for record setting. [1]

Matt Weaver and Sean Costin have also exceeded 70-mph.

[1] http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2003/results.htm
[2] http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2002/results.htm
http://www.wisil.recumbents.com/wisil/whpsc2001/resultsspreadsheet.htm

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

BTW: the auction ended two hours ago.



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In rec.bicycles.misc John Foltz wrote:
: them. Most US recumbents are, at best, the equivalent of riding an
: upright on the hoods. Bike-E in particular, liked to quote recumbent
: speed advantages, glossing over the fact that their design was
: actually *worse* than a typical road bike.

BikeE is hardly a substitute for a road bike.

If you put aerobars and homebrew wheeldisks on a typical road
bike, you probably wouldn't be much worse off than with a lowracer
without such enhancements.

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In rec.bicycles.misc John Foltz wrote:

: Disadvantages of a fairing like mine or the one in the second pic:
: they add 3-4 pounds to the bike, and they have to be removed for
: transport. Mine is designed to come off in less than 30 seconds. The
: clear ones come off by removing 4 nylon wingnuts. While I love
: riding with it, I haven't used it at all this year. Sometimes the
: feeling of riding a lighter bike is good, too.

And in hot weather, they are still providing some extra warmth...

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Tom Sherman wrote in message ...
Carl Fogel wrote:

Tom Sherman wrote in message ...

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Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

Dear Tom,

How do you scratch your nose in that
impressive body-sock?

There are zippered armholes in each side for hand signaling and there is
also a zipper along the top of the sock.

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

Dear Tom,

Am I right in thinking that the zippered armhole
in the picture is the faint, dark, descending
curve that goes across your upper arm?

And come to think of it, how do you get into
it? It doesn't look as if you could seat yourself
and then pull it back over your head or forward,
so maybe it's stretchy enough to pull up and
get in from the side? Or does the zipper along
the top let you step in from the top?

Do you have a web page for this kind of body
sock? Experience suggests that I'll end up with
hundreds of women wearing leotards while bicycling
if I try to search for it myself.

Carl Fogel

wrote in message ...
In rec.bicycles.misc Carl Fogel wrote:

: The recumbents that I see in my little backwater
: in Pueblo, Colorado, must be the equivalent of
: the inexpensive mountain bikes sold at WalMart.
: The riders sit higher, their feet are lower, the
: wheels are larger, and the chain runs seem much
: more straightforward than that Rube Goldberg

Not necessarily, they sound more like touring bents by your
description. Go read some recumbent websites (there's plenty) for
info on all the designs out there :-)

Dear Risto,

So far, the few that I've seen turn out to
be the inexpensive entry-level recumbents,
apparently EZ-1's, about $500-$700 U.S., far
more than WalMart's entry-level bikes, but
then recumbents are much rarer and more
expensive.

Curiously, your post suggests that I'm showing
up in rec.bicycles.misc, possibly through cross
posting or links to previous cross posts. This
thread, for example, is split off in some news
servers, from the original.

Carl Fogel