Chalo's tallbike pictures

[Carl Fogel]

A request elsewhere led to this. Oh, where to begin?

Even his home workroom is unusually large. How long is the seat post? Is there an off-road version?
When is the recumbent frame going to be ready? Why no rear cantilever suspension? Are those
Seattle-style clipless riding boots? Wouldn't a penny-farthing be more practical? Still determined
to become the world's largest circus midget? Could you flip it upside-down for Jobst to work on it?
What do you do at stop-lights? Put a foot down on a car roof?

http://home.comcast.net/~carlfogel/download/tallchainstays.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~carlfogel/download/tallride4.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~carlfogel/download/tallride5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~carlfogel/download/tallstem2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~carlfogel/download/tallside4.jpg

Best of all, note happy smile in tallride4.jpg. When was the last time that your face lit up like
that while just pedalling around?

Carl Fogel

 

[Rick Onanian]

On 19 Nov 2003 09:46:00 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>A request elsewhere led to this. Oh, where to begin?
>
>Even his home workroom is unusually large.

That appears to be his workplace.

>Best of all, note happy smile in tallride4.jpg.

I think that in that picture, he's happy to find out that those beams are _above_ his head.

Chalo, watch your head riding that bike in that shop. You don't want _another_ dent, do you?

Now, my question: Under hard braking, is it difficult to avoid an endo?

>Carl Fogel
--
Rick Onanian

 

[Bill Putnam]

[email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote in message
> A request elsewhere led to this. Oh, where to begin? Even his home workroom is unusually large.
...
> Best of all, note happy smile in tallride4.jpg. When was the last time that your face lit up like
> that while just pedalling around?

Carl,

A big THANK YOU for the photo links! Wonderful! Seeing a happy bicycle rider makes me happy, but I
am amazed that you didn't mention the MACHINE TOOLS! Yes the shop is big, but it is those wonderful
tools that have helped to bring Chalo's ideas to reality.

Bill Putnam, who in a few short hours will be happily making metal chips using his friend's
Bridgeport mill, and promises one of these days to make up a SA 2 speed fixed hub.

 

[Gary Young]

You can also hear Chalo discussing bicycles at:

http://www.wnyc.org/studio360/show061502.html

Click on "Design for the Real World."

 

[Carl Fogel]

Rick Onanian <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:<[email protected]>...
> On 19 Nov 2003 09:46:00 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
> >A request elsewhere led to this. Oh, where to begin?
> >
> >Even his home workroom is unusually large.
>
> That appears to be his workplace.
>

[snip]

Dear Rick,

Nonsense. It's clearly a picture of an ordinary, modestly equipped home workroom of the kind found
in any basement in the U.S.--it's just a bit more spacious than some and perhaps a little cleaner.
All of the equipment is available from Sears or Home Depot, often on sale at half price.

(Or so we're telling Simon Brooke.)

Carl Fogel

 

[Chalo]

[email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:

> It's clearly a picture of an ordinary, modestly equipped home workroom of the kind found in any
> basement in the U.S.--it's just a bit more spacious than some and perhaps a little cleaner. All of
> the equipment is available from Sears or Home Depot, often on sale at half price.

My basement shop shown in the pictures may not be very big or fancy, but it will have to do-- my
house is small and my means are limited, after all.

Not all the equipment came from Sears or Home Depot. I got the Carlton 4 1/2 foot radial arm drill
press from Ikea, for instance. The National Broach & Machine gear shaver came from KMart. And I won
the Miller Synchrowave 300 TIG welder in a Little League raffle.

Chalo Colina

 

[Benjamin Weiner]

Chalo <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:

> > It's clearly a picture of an ordinary, modestly equipped home workroom of the kind found in any
> > basement in the U.S.--it's just a bit more spacious than some and perhaps a little cleaner. All
> > of the equipment is available from Sears or Home Depot, often on sale at half price.

> My basement shop shown in the pictures may not be very big or fancy, but it will have to do-- my
> house is small and my means are limited, after all.

> Not all the equipment came from Sears or Home Depot. I got the Carlton 4 1/2 foot radial arm drill
> press from Ikea, for instance. The National Broach & Machine gear shaver came from KMart. And I
> won the Miller Synchrowave 300 TIG welder in a Little League raffle.

The first time I went into the back room of a bakery, I was struck by the epiphanic revelation that
there really is not too much difference between a Hobart mixer and a Bridgeport end mill. (I can
bake bread at home but had never understood how the process was scaled up to many hundreds of
loaves a day.)

With the increasing trend towards outfitting home kitchens with absurdly high-capacity food industry
machinery, I expect that Chalo's next shop acquisition may come from Williams-Sonoma.

 

[Carl Fogel]

Benjamin Weiner <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<3fbdae7f$1@darkstar>...
> Chalo <[email protected]> wrote:
> > [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>
> > > It's clearly a picture of an ordinary, modestly equipped home workroom of the kind found in
> > > any basement in the U.S.--it's just a bit more spacious than some and perhaps a little
> > > cleaner. All of the equipment is available from Sears or Home Depot, often on sale at half
> > > price.
>
> > My basement shop shown in the pictures may not be very big or fancy, but it will have to do-- my
> > house is small and my means are limited, after all.
>
> > Not all the equipment came from Sears or Home Depot. I got the Carlton 4 1/2 foot radial arm
> > drill press from Ikea, for instance. The National Broach & Machine gear shaver came from KMart.
> > And I won the Miller Synchrowave 300 TIG welder in a Little League raffle.
>
> The first time I went into the back room of a bakery, I was struck by the epiphanic revelation
> that there really is not too much difference between a Hobart mixer and a Bridgeport end mill. (I
> can bake bread at home but had never understood how the process was scaled up to many hundreds of
> loaves a day.)
>
> With the increasing trend towards outfitting home kitchens with absurdly high-capacity food
> industry machinery, I expect that Chalo's next shop acquisition may come from Williams-Sonoma.

Dear Benjamin,

This is, after all, rec.bicycles.tech, not Dr. Seuss, and I have my reputation for dignity to
uphold, so I'm not sure that I'd be willing to host a picture of Chalo pedalling around the shop on
his tallboy bike while wearing a huge chef's hat.

But if anyone has such a picture . . .

Carl Fogel

 

[Mark]

If you like tallbikes, how about a tall tandem?

http://tricolour.net/photos/2003/07/13/hpv.html

http://vic.dyndns.org/pics/2003-09-12/index-simple.html

http://tricolour.net/photos/2003/08/22/index.html

Up here in Ottawa, Canada is a guy named Mike Watson, who has created a veritable fleet of
interesting choppers, tallbikes, swing bikes, and other weird things. Mike is a feature editor for
BikeRodnKustom.com. I bought one of his choppers last winter, and it's my official parade bike!

http://pages.iSTAR.ca/~marker/chopper.html

Collectively, our group is called the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa, or HPVOoO. We like
the French sound of it, since Quebec is right acros the river. Our website is
http://hpv.tricolour.net , and all the photos are at http://hpv.tricolour.net/events.html

Cheers, Mark

 

[Carl Fogel]

[email protected] (Mark) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> If you like tallbikes, how about a tall tandem?
>
> http://tricolour.net/photos/2003/07/13/hpv.html
>
> http://vic.dyndns.org/pics/2003-09-12/index-simple.html
>
> http://tricolour.net/photos/2003/08/22/index.html
>
> Up here in Ottawa, Canada is a guy named Mike Watson, who has created a veritable fleet of
> interesting choppers, tallbikes, swing bikes, and other weird things. Mike is a feature editor for
> BikeRodnKustom.com. I bought one of his choppers last winter, and it's my official parade bike!
>
> http://pages.iSTAR.ca/~marker/chopper.html
>
> Collectively, our group is called the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa, or HPVOoO. We
> like the French sound of it, since Quebec is right acros the river. Our website is
> http://hpv.tricolour.net , and all the photos are at http://hpv.tricolour.net/events.html
>
> Cheers, Mark

Dear Mark,

I'm agog--tandems never occurred to me. And with that kind of ground clearance, obviously
well-suited to off-road work. Nice paint job, too.

I notice that, like Chalo, everyone involved seems to have happy grins up there.

Thanks,

Carl Fogel