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Over the last few months this thing has become the love of my life. It's now officially my favourite 'bike' of all time. It's just a simple thing, but the transformative effect it has had on some people's lives has been profound. For people on the autistic spectrum particularly - for all kinds of reasons. It's a gem.
http://www.getcycling.org.uk/details.php?id=485
On Thursday the CEO of the company who makes them delivered our latest consignment of four units personally in the work's van - all the way from Holland.
http://www.roam.nl/index.php
After using it extensively we were able to give him a load of feedback on it - and also discussed the possibility of our own exclusive model with a few tweaks to the spec. We'll be getting our first GC spec TwinBike in the New Year, I can't wait. I'm unfeasibly excited by the prospect.
Another thing they make which I found really intriguing, is a 'coaster brake' mechanism for a derailleur bike. he brought an example fitted to a wheelchair based handcycle. Coaster brakes and gears (apart from the early C.20th Bendix two speed coasters and the like) are mutually exclusive. This thing is based around a tiny freewheel mechanism which sits between the bottom bracket cup and the LH crank. It's has a 100mm arm attached which pulls a regular brake cable which, on this example, drove a cable disc. Brilliant.
http://www.getcycling.org.uk/details.php?id=485
On Thursday the CEO of the company who makes them delivered our latest consignment of four units personally in the work's van - all the way from Holland.
http://www.roam.nl/index.php
After using it extensively we were able to give him a load of feedback on it - and also discussed the possibility of our own exclusive model with a few tweaks to the spec. We'll be getting our first GC spec TwinBike in the New Year, I can't wait. I'm unfeasibly excited by the prospect.
Another thing they make which I found really intriguing, is a 'coaster brake' mechanism for a derailleur bike. he brought an example fitted to a wheelchair based handcycle. Coaster brakes and gears (apart from the early C.20th Bendix two speed coasters and the like) are mutually exclusive. This thing is based around a tiny freewheel mechanism which sits between the bottom bracket cup and the LH crank. It's has a 100mm arm attached which pulls a regular brake cable which, on this example, drove a cable disc. Brilliant.
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don't you know.
