ClichéGuevara
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...and some of us have more than one Brompton...
I think most people just call them roller skates.
Are other cyclist's hating on us
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I think most people just call them roller skates.
Bobario
Veteran
And the outfit too.
Oldhippy
Cynical idealist
Not bright enough I suspect but his tailor can probably knock something up.
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bikebikebike2
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I also ride a 'cumby, it's low down on the road,
And other folks will think of you as lower than a toad.
They often point out to me
The errors of my ways
Like being much more aero
And smiling like I'm in a daze.
And other folks will think of you as lower than a toad.
They often point out to me
The errors of my ways
Like being much more aero
And smiling like I'm in a daze.
Kell
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- High Wycombe/London
I would genuinely like to have a go in a recumbent
matticus
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Don't think I've seen those before!
Do they work like mini-Elliptigos? (i.e. convert an almost-running motion into wheel rotation)
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
I don't think there's any drive going to those wheels. I can't see anything. I think they may just be in-line skates with suspension.
There may be a reason why they never caught on ...
(Or perhaps the little wheels did catch on things)
ExBrit
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OH! Father Christmas! I assumed F*cking Crazy. My bad. You must hang out with a better class of kids than I do.
matticus
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There seems to be a cable from the front wheel(s) to the back, and some sort of pulley wheel(?) at the back axle?
Also the range of height movement ("travel" in MTB terms, I guess!) for the feet seems enormous to just be for suspension.
Total guesswork, and probably useless. Of course.
ExBrit
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- Southern California
How about these skates that appear to be powered by methane.
Dogtrousers
Kilometre nibbler
Kell
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- High Wycombe/London
A bit of googling pulls up that these are Takypods and are indeed powered. Invented by Edvard Petrini.
I've not found a manual or anything to say for definite how they work, but I'm guessing that as you step your weight onto them, it expands the wheelbase, pulling the cable. The cable pulls the cog and the cog turns the wheels.
I've not found a manual or anything to say for definite how they work, but I'm guessing that as you step your weight onto them, it expands the wheelbase, pulling the cable. The cable pulls the cog and the cog turns the wheels.
matticus
Guru
Kell
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- High Wycombe/London
Yes. As I said upthread.
I know - my response was because it looked like everyone was just guessing. I wanted to see if there was anything more concrete.
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