Should pedals be mandatory?

[Hugh Manatee]

Get rid of saddles too?
No more sores.

When at uni, some scrott sack stole my saddle and I was too poor to get another so I did without for a while. I wouldn't recommend it from a safety point of view, but Wow! It was the best work out ever. Legs like a pro in no time.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Idai Makaya did London-Edinburgh-London on an Elliptigo. 1400km in 116 hours

Edit. So did Alan McDonogh http://www.elliptigo.co.uk/meet-idai-makaya/

And PBP 15

 

[steveindenmark]

No. Pedals should not be mandatory. Especially at this time of the year when I will be out on my scooter whilst everyones bikes are tucked away in the shed.

 

[subaqua]

When at uni, some scrott sack stole my saddle and I was too poor to get another so I did without for a while. I wouldn't recommend it from a safety point of view, but Wow! It was the best work out ever. Legs like a pro in no time.

Some git knicked mine a few months back . Yup was a great way of working the legs

 

[Tim Hall]

Only one of them would be.......

Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg. A lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw you come in. I said, "A lovely leg for the role". I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is – neither have you.

 

[oldwheels]

I saw somebody this year who seemed to be touring on a kick bike on the A85 near Oban. Personally I prefer pedals but whatever floats you boat.

 

[smutchin]

or the Elliptigo

Point of order: an Elliptigo has pedals

 

[Drago]

Ridiculous. Next thing you'll be thumping the table and demanding that frames are made mandatory.

 

[Venod]

What only the one brake

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[Vantage]

What only the one brake

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Oooh a built-n rollcage! Does it have SIPS?

 

[Drago]

I like the way in which it prises your head off like a bottle opener when it falls over.

 

[Ajax Bay]

I've heard of someone doing a 400k Audax on an Elliptigo

Idai Makaya did London-Edinburgh-London on an Elliptigo. 1400km in 116 hours
Edit. So did Alan McDonogh http://www.elliptigo.co.uk/meet-idai-makaya/

The hardest UK audax completed on an ElliptiGO is the Mille Pennines: 1000+km and 13000+m of climb in <75 hours. Tim Woodier did it in less than 72 hours (an average speed of 14kph) - I passed him in Langholm. He passed me outside Carlisle.
Even longer, last year Stuart Blofeld completed the epic Wild Atlantic Way Audax cycling challenge (2100km in 7 days).

Point of order: an Elliptigo has pedals

Point of order rejected, citizen. ElliptiGOs have "foot platforms" - user manual via here.

 

[smutchin]

Point of order rejected, citizen. ElliptiGOs have "foot platforms" - user manual via here.

I would say those 'foot platforms' are by definition a type of pedal, ie levers operated by the foot to propel the machine forwards.

Kickbikes/scooters/skateboards differ in that the foot provides forward motion through direct contact with the ground rather than via a drivetrain.

 

[Tim Hall]

I suppose you first have to come up with a definition of what you want to make attaching pedals to mandatory. You will then have to decide what function they will play and wether they can just be attached for decoration or have to have some function. Can they be operated by hand or will it be mandatory to operate them by feet only. If it is mandatory to use feet will persons only possessing one leg be able to use them. Then it will have to be debated and modified and after many years someone will ask what are we discussing and why. Bit like the EU ...

Etymologically speaking pedals have to be operated by feet. Hand operated "pedal things" will be paddles. Or manuals perhaps.

 

[smutchin]

Or handles?

Thereby denying @Tim Hall the pleasure of the gratuitous neologism.