Greenspeed-like trike Gets a Bigger Wheel!

MLB wrote:
Larry Varney wrote in
:


Hellbent Rick wrote:

Larry,

I'm not an art aficionado, but the concept of art is to produce a
feeling or emotion from the beholder. One of the strongest emotion
we have as humans is sex. I agree that using adjectives such as
'sexy' might be bit misleading and abused. However, there is one
underplayed emotion that any successful trike should invoke, and that
is 'envy'.


Rick Horwitz
http://www.hellbentcycles.com


I can see "envy", in the sense that we might envy someone who owns
such-and-such trike. And I'm not denigrating the appearance of trikes
with the large rear wheel - a friend of mine had a fairly old Trice,
and I loved the way that big wheel was just about at the level of the
riders head - reminded me of some of the old Formula One race cars,
with the air intakes for the carbs just behind the driver.
I could just imagine that I was Jim Clark in his Lotus, sitting on
that trike. But did it arouse something sexual, that big wheel? Did it
stir some deep, dark feelings regarding sex? Not consciously, anyway.
I'm not even sure just which sex some people are referring to, when
they say something like that is "sexy". Is it male or female?
And now I'm thinking all kinds of weird thoughts about those big
wheels. Calling Dr. Freud!


Sexy is often used to describe cars and motorcycles (not just by the ad
agencies) that have flowing lines and look 'symetrical' to the eye. I think
the comparison is to the flowing lines that define a sexy woman's form.
It's well known that 'most' men are instinctively attracted to a women with
a certain hip to shoulder(?) ratio that suggests a healthy body for child
bearing.

I know that the term "sexy" is often used in advertisements, but as I
said earlier, I find it disheartening when normal people use the term to
describe something that is so (hopefully) non-sexual.
And I hope that you're not saying that the large rear wheel of the
under-discussion trike is somehow related to a "sexy woman's form". And
child bearing? Just what are we sitting on, when we sit on a trike?

--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

john riley wrote:
Big wheel envy? Bigger is better? Will I start getting spam about a
patch I can put on a 20" wheel to make it bigger?

JR

Larry Varney wrote in message ...

Hellbent Rick wrote:

Larry,

I'm not an art aficionado, but the concept of art is to produce a feeling or
emotion from the beholder. One of the strongest emotion we have as humans
is sex. I agree that using adjectives such as 'sexy' might be bit
misleading and abused. However, there is one underplayed emotion that any
successful trike should invoke, and that is 'envy'.


Rick Horwitz
http://www.hellbentcycles.com


I can see "envy", in the sense that we might envy someone who owns
such-and-such trike. And I'm not denigrating the appearance of trikes
with the large rear wheel - a friend of mine had a fairly old Trice, and
I loved the way that big wheel was just about at the level of the riders
head - reminded me of some of the old Formula One race cars, with the
air intakes for the carbs just behind the driver.
I could just imagine that I was Jim Clark in his Lotus, sitting on
that trike. But did it arouse something sexual, that big wheel? Did it
stir some deep, dark feelings regarding sex? Not consciously, anyway.
I'm not even sure just which sex some people are referring to, when they
say something like that is "sexy". Is it male or female?
And now I'm thinking all kinds of weird thoughts about those big
wheels. Calling Dr. Freud!

Maybe this explains why some people want to change their Catrike
Speed's front wheels from 305's to 349!

--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

I know that the term "sexy" is often used in advertisements, but as
I
said earlier, I find it disheartening when normal people use the term
to describe something that is so (hopefully) non-sexual.


I think you are putting YOUR sexual conotations on others peoples ideas.
Most of us can use the term to describe an inatimate object while having no
thoughts of sex.



And I hope that you're not saying that the large rear wheel of the
under-discussion trike is somehow related to a "sexy woman's form".
And child bearing? Just what are we sitting on, when we sit on a
trike?


the whole point of my reply was that it doesn't have to relate to a sexual
thought or idea! "NICE LINES" - get it?

MLB wrote:
I know that the term "sexy" is often used in advertisements, but as
I
said earlier, I find it disheartening when normal people use the term
to describe something that is so (hopefully) non-sexual.



I think you are putting YOUR sexual conotations on others peoples ideas.
Most of us can use the term to describe an inatimate object while having no
thoughts of sex.




And I hope that you're not saying that the large rear wheel of the
under-discussion trike is somehow related to a "sexy woman's form".
And child bearing? Just what are we sitting on, when we sit on a
trike?



the whole point of my reply was that it doesn't have to relate to a sexual
thought or idea! "NICE LINES" - get it?

Yeah, I "get it". I'm applying my "sexual conotations" to the term
"sexy". For me, it relates to something sexual. You, on the other hand,
"use the term to describe an inatimate object while having no thought of
sex". Fine.


--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

Larry Varney wrote:

It always makes me cringe when I see advertisements that try to
link sex with just about any product that can be sold - but it's
especially disturbing when the customers do it on their own!
Honestly, just how does a 26" wheel make a recumbent trike look
"sexier"? And which sex are we referring to? And is it human or
something else? If any part of a bicycle/tricycle makes you think
of sex, maybe
you're getting too much of one and not enough of the other.

William. Though 'twas, if I may introduce a (whispers) political overtone
at this point, worse when The Mgt here in the UK was being accused of
"sexing-up" some dossier on the subject of weapons of mass destruction and
the possession thereof by Mr. S. Hussein, gangster and Caliph of Baghdad.
Is there something WRONG with the word "embellished" (apart from the obvious
fact of its having a Several of syllables)?

Pettifogger Jarnoyce B.Sc.
Professional Curmudgeon

Dave Larrington wrote:
Larry Varney wrote:


It always makes me cringe when I see advertisements that try to
link sex with just about any product that can be sold - but it's
especially disturbing when the customers do it on their own!
Honestly, just how does a 26" wheel make a recumbent trike look
"sexier"? And which sex are we referring to? And is it human or
something else? If any part of a bicycle/tricycle makes you think
of sex, maybe
you're getting too much of one and not enough of the other.


William. Though 'twas, if I may introduce a (whispers) political overtone
at this point, worse when The Mgt here in the UK was being accused of
"sexing-up" some dossier on the subject of weapons of mass destruction and
the possession thereof by Mr. S. Hussein, gangster and Caliph of Baghdad.
Is there something WRONG with the word "embellished" (apart from the obvious
fact of its having a Several of syllables)?

Pettifogger Jarnoyce B.Sc.
Professional Curmudgeon



It has been said that "words mean things", or something like that.
The trouble is, we live in the world of Humpty Dumpty of "Alice In
Wonderland", where words meant whatever he wanted them to mean. So,
dictionaries are fated to go the way of the dinosaur.

“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, “it
means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.” “The
question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many
different things.” “The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to
be master—that’s all.”

--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

"Larry Varney" wrote in message
...
MLB wrote:
I know that the term "sexy" is often used in advertisements, but as
I
said earlier, I find it disheartening when normal people use the term
to describe something that is so (hopefully) non-sexual.



I think you are putting YOUR sexual conotations on others peoples ideas.
Most of us can use the term to describe an inatimate object while having
no
thoughts of sex.




And I hope that you're not saying that the large rear wheel of the
under-discussion trike is somehow related to a "sexy woman's form".
And child bearing? Just what are we sitting on, when we sit on a
trike?



the whole point of my reply was that it doesn't have to relate to a
sexual
thought or idea! "NICE LINES" - get it?

Yeah, I "get it". I'm applying my "sexual conotations" to the term
"sexy". For me, it relates to something sexual. You, on the other hand,
"use the term to describe an inatimate object while having no thought of
sex". Fine.


--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney


My mother said that sexual is as sexual does......no, wait....that wasn't my
mother...it was Mike Jackson.....

jd

Was it Masters or Johnson who said "It's not the size of the wheel,
it's what you do with it." Wheel envy...that's a new one!

BentJay

BentJay wrote:
Was it Masters or Johnson who said "It's not the size of the wheel,
it's what you do with it." Wheel envy...that's a new one!

BentJay

And now I wonder how to view the 2004 Catrike Speed, with its hollow
front axles!
But speaking of bigger wheels - I got a chance to ride (briefly) a
late-prototype Catrike Trail, which has 406's on all three wheels, has a
bit less recline, and a few other things that set it apart from the
Speed. Both do have one thing in common, though: Paulo's got them
working with about the least amount of brake steer I've encountered.
And one other thing: they're both fun to ride!

--
Larry Varney
Cold Spring, KY
http://home.fuse.net/larryvarney

No, no, no!! It goes like this, "Just because you got a short drive shaft,
doen't mean you don't have a high-speed rear-end!!"


rh
"BentJay" wrote in message
om...
Was it Masters or Johnson who said "It's not the size of the wheel,
it's what you do with it." Wheel envy...that's a new one!

BentJay