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TourSleazy lives!
http://members.optusnet.com.au/~weez...leazy0562w.JPG yes, it is a motorised recumbent. Well sort of. Engine power only, pedal power only, both at once. What happens when you let a loony get hold of your whippersnipper? The creator says: "Final drive is a 7 speed bicycle derailleur with a special Shimano Mega-Range rear cluster which drops 1st gear into the weeds. Top speed in 1st gear at the governor setpoint of 3650 RPM is about 30km/h. Will climb any hill in my district. Top speed on the level is about 53-55km/h, but given a slight downhill slope can touch 72km/h. After 200km of daily street use, TS has consumed 1850ml of unleaded petrol, an average of 111.1km/litre or about 263mpg." He doesn't say anything about downhill corners... Be very afraid, you may be looking at the future of commuting! Zebee -- Zebee Johnstone ), proud holder of aus.motorcycles Poser Permit #1. "Motorcycles are like peanuts... who can stop at just one?" |
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
.... http://members.optusnet.com.au/~weez...leazy0562w.JPG .... Be very afraid, you may be looking at the future of commuting! Zebee Wot, no front suspension? ;-) Seriously tho, cue the John Lennon song imagine if every commuting single-occupant car with minimal load was one of these (with handlebars like that, shouldn't it have a milk crate bungee-strapped on somewhere?)... 263mpg - wow. How I wish it was the future... Instead of radio traffic reports about bumper to bumper jams, and life-wasting, tragic crashes... adopts John Faine voice "VicRoads tells us there's been a nasty accident on the South-Eastern Freeway near the corner with Warrigal Road. Apparently the riders of the two Franken-mopeds have gone to a local GP to have their grazed knees, ankles, and elbows painted with Betadine and to be given Med Certs so they can take a few days off work. North- and South-bound bicycle and Franken-moped riders should have no problem at all, but urban 4WD drivers should [ABC beeps out next 20 seconds] sexual inadequacy, general selfishness and yeast infections. /John Faine voice The 50cc Land Speed Record? Weezilco *rawks*! xxx fred |
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In aus.bicycle on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:55:24 +1000
fred knieman wrote: Seriously tho, cue the John Lennon song imagine if every commuting single-occupant car with minimal load was one of these (with handlebars like that, shouldn't it have a milk crate bungee-strapped on somewhere?)... Possibly better brakes too.. Apparently TS chews through brake pads, and the smoke coming off them as they char when hauling the plot down from 60kmh can be a bit disturbing... Be careful what you wish for, think of those descriptions of traffic in Hanoi or Beijing! Zebee |
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Zebee Johnstone wrote:
In aus.bicycle on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:55:24 +1000 fred knieman wrote: Seriously tho, cue the John Lennon song imagine if every commuting single-occupant car with minimal load was one of these (with handlebars like that, shouldn't it have a milk crate bungee-strapped on somewhere?)... Possibly better brakes too.. Apparently TS chews through brake pads, and the smoke coming off them as they char when hauling the plot down from 60kmh can be a bit disturbing... Hmm... start completely pedantic-ness .... I notice it uses ULP, so it probably has emission [sp?] controls and isn't a two-stroke. Well, unless it doesn't/isn't. Am I the only person in the world that is annoyed by those two-stroke motorised bikes? (... that would appear to be so v eco-friendly... unless you know how f*ckin' dirty two-stroke motors are - just one of those bikes prolly puts out more CO/NOx/nasty combustion particles than 100 SAABs...) Hmm, redux: does the environmental footprint an ULP recumbent moped offset the burning brake-pads? /completely pedantic-ness Disc brakes, maybe? Be careful what you wish for, think of those descriptions of traffic in Hanoi or Beijing! I've seen what Tokyo was like, and... mind weak... body strong... umm, I mean, body weak... mind strong... must... not... tell... anecdote... One sunny winter afternoon I was steaming home along Kokudô 4 from Nihombashi to Koshigaya, and stopped at traffic lights somewhere in Adachi-ku. A policeman, who was 6 foot 2, I swear, stepped out in front of me and said (in Japanese), "What on earth are you doing, riding your bike on the road? Ride on the footpath like a sensible person. On the footpath, now!" Strangely enough, I completely lost the ability to speak or understand Japanese, except to wish him "Konnichi wa" ["good morning"], then say "Arigatô gozaimasu", and "Oyama, uchi no o-niwaya-san wa wani ni taberarema****a wa yo!" [(in the infections of an elderly female) "my goodness, our gardener has been eaten by a crocodile!"] The lights changed, and I rode off as quickly as possible. (I wonder, has this incident has been noted in jp.police.foreigners.odd.really-odd ...) Demurrer: I still think the replacement of cars with HPVs would be a good thing. And it looks like the opposite is happening in the places you mentioned. But that's a whole 'nother thread... Zebee |
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