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Bike update
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lugnet.build
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Mon, 28 Dec 1998 08:54:09 GMT
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Ok, this weekend I built recumbent bikes to add to my collection. I now
have a trike and long wheelbase bike to go next to the three mountain
bikes.
So, the bike rack now has:
A recumbent trike featuring dual front wheels with splayed axles and tiller
steering.Looks cool, but is so low that I've had to take the chain off as
it was dragging on the ground :) Uses the smooth motorbike wheels (8845?)
on the front and a future car wheel at the back. Very cool. Have started
LDrawing it. Not sure that it's complete yet - I might add a chain and
lift it off the ground a little, perhaps lengthen it too. The steering
would work better if there was an angle between #5 and #6, about 100
degrees would be great.
A LWB above-seat-steer (ASS) recumbent bike. See
http://www.angletechcycles.com/recumbents.htm
for a bit of a guide to recumbent styles. This one has working chain drive
(fixed, 40-16 ratio) with a motorbike wheel from MS on the back, the common
smaller wheel (8460 crane truck etc etc) on the front. Front suspension
using small shocks and a cunning mechanism to hold them perpendicular to
the axle. Chopper handlebars :) Uses a lot of #5 angle joiners to get
things to sit at the right angles, and some #4's would have been really
useful (attention TLG!) The next step for this is a small fairing, and
perhaps gear rack or bags.
A standard double-A frame MTB. Still needs work around the rear - the
apex on the back axle doesn't work well right now. Strictly freewheel,
it doesn't even have a chain.
An inverted 4 design with aero bars and front suspension. Based on the
24x43 tyres from 8860/8865. Again, cranks but no chainrings. Looks quite
realistic IMO. Is in LDraw, but I'm currently sans web page.
Full suspension bike, as seen briefly in photos on my page. Hard to
describe. Now improved the force balance, so pushing down at about
1/3 back along the top tube moves both suspension units. Managed to
limit travel on the rear so it stops before it hits the seat tube.
Thinking about it, with most of these bikes if I take the pedals off there are
no studs in all bar the fully suspended MTB. The pedals are all 2x2 plates
with the hole underneath.
I wonder if I can make a scale Technic figure for these (a Tech-Chick?)
With any luck these will all be up on the web sometime this week, once I get them
into LDraw and POV-Rayed up nicely. Hmm, I guess it's going to mean faking up
the motorbike wheel and probably also the future car one too. And best update
my Ldraw parts - I know the 40T gear is in (thank you). Is the cam done yet?
Oh, and I started playing with the contest ideas - one of those chain based
trench digging machines I think :)
Play well,
Moz
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| (...) How do you do that? (...) Do you mean make a technic figure out of regular pieces or to make the bike to the scale of the figures? Probably the first. It'll be fun to see some of these! (...) Not to my knowledge. It's one of those pieces that (...) (26 years ago, 28-Dec-98, to lugnet.build)
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