What In The World Is This Thing? (Recumbent On E-Bay)

[Wolverbob]

Take a look at this "recumbent" ...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3636347369&category=161 70#ebayphotohosting

Look at where the bottom bracket is compared to where your feet would be once you put them down. Oh
wait, thats so you can put things in the "cargo" area below the seat!

Bob Krzewinski

 

[Bill Patterson]

One of the reasons that I got interested in Front drive was the problem of where to put stuff when
that long chain to the rear drive took up so much room.

A bike very similar to this, was shown in an early Encyclopedia. It routs the chain around the load.
I think it is very clever.
--
Bill "Pop Pop" Patterson Retired and riding my front drive low racer and our M5 tandem.

See some Bikes At:

http://home.earthlink.net/~wm.patterson/index.html

PC

http://www.roadkillbill.com/r135.html

Class and Helicopter

http://www.calpoly.edu/~wpatters/

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[Ken Kobayashi]

On 07 Nov 2003 04:52:21 GMT, [email protected] (Wolverbob) wrote:

>Take a look at this "recumbent" ...
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3636347369&category=161 70#ebayphotohosting
>
>Look at where the bottom bracket is compared to where your feet would be once you put them down. Oh
>wait, thats so you can put things in the "cargo" area below the seat!

Here's the company's home page: http://www.mcsbike.com/ It's in German though.

This bike has been around for a couple of years, I think. It's a neat design, though I always
wondered if the "cargo" would interfere with the rider's legs when stopped.

Ken Kobayashi [email protected] http://solarwww.mtk.nao.ac.jp/kobayashi/personal/

 

[Dave Larrington]

Excellent device. Note from teh manufacturers' web site that it can be ridden hands-off while
carrying a crate of beer. A practical machine par excellence...

Dave Larrington - http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/
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[Moosebear]

It's a neat design



I love this design, I'd really like to try some "bikes of burden", and if it's a "'bent of burden" all the better. One day, I'd like to have such a bike in my garage for shopping.

I can imagine a day in our society when more people might start to make the connection between not getting enough exercise and the fact that we do all our load-carrying with over-priced, polluting, space-hogging motor-vehicles.