Mon, 9 Jun 2003 16:02:49 -0500, <
[email protected]>, "effi" <
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>"Zoot Katz" <
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>> Mon, 9 Jun 2003 02:24:13 -0500, <
[email protected]>, "effi" <
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>>
>> >anyone ever see one of these?
>> >
>> >a regular bike turned upside down and made twice as tall?
>> >
>>
>> Tall bikes are fun to ride though dismounting is best planned well in advance.
>
>what???
>
>and miss making it into america's dumbest videos???
>
There's not that much to it but figuring it out on the fly is a process of trial and error. The
first tall-bike I rode, had no brakes. I figured that out after getting used to the handlebars
rotating in the stem. Now I usually check if it's got brakes before hopping on strange bikes.
http://www.dclxvi.org/chunk/travels/vancouver/index.html.
That chopper workshop was being videotaped for something called "Weird Wheels". It was shot during
BikeSummer 2001. I never saw the segment, but if you ever see it, that's me pedalling a front
wheel drive
C.H.U.N.K.666 creation called "Humpty" a few feet off the bumper of the camera van. It's a tall
Dr.Seuss-like bed frame on 16" wheels with a coaster brake that sometimes worked. It was
quite easy to ride but you had to mount and dismount like and ordinary by using the foot
pegs welded to its frame.
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