3 More Very Strange Bikes

[javawizard]

I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
I should add.
Thanks,
- Jeff

[Andreas Schulze-Bäing]

Am Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:26:11 -0000 schrieb javawizard:

> I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
> Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
> I should add.

I recently came across news about a bike that is apparently the longest
bike in the world:

http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/219007/
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&mode=&order=0&thold=0
http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&imgid=5073&subtopic=110&photonr=1

The bike is 29.45 m long and weighs 500 kg. It was a record attempt by the
Radclub Altenstadt in Austria. They managed to ride it for nearly 100 m -
enough to get to the next pub :-)

Andreas

[nmp]

javawizard wrote:

> I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
> Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think I
> should add.
> Thanks,
> - Jeff

A tiny little correction, if you don't mind, concerning the link "Svara
Citera". Where it says "Three pictures and short article in a non-English
language - possibly German or Dutch.", the language is actually Swedish.

The toplevel domain in the URL <http://www.hdk.gu.se/EXAMINA/EXA05/
dm3magka3.shtml> should give it away even if you don't recognise the
language :)

That bicycle confuses the hell out of me, BTW.

[â–€Slack]

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:19:34 -0700, Andreas Schulze-Bäing
<mibmab@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Am Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:26:11 -0000 schrieb javawizard:
>
>> I have added three more very unusual bicycles to www.odd-bikes.com.
>> Enjoy, and please let me know if you come across any others you think
>> I should add.
>
> I recently came across news about a bike that is apparently the longest
> bike in the world:
>
> http://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/219007/
> http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&mode=&order=0&thold=0
> http://www.radfahren.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3075&imgid=5073&subtopic=110&photonr=1
>
> The bike is 29.45 m long and weighs 500 kg. It was a record attempt by
> the
> Radclub Altenstadt in Austria. They managed to ride it for nearly 100 m -
> enough to get to the next pub :-)
>
> Andreas


Tell homie to bring that thing here to San Pedro or San Francisco, I wanna
see him ride it down a hill.
http://sfblogg.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/stretchlimo.jpg
--
Slack

[PhilD]

On Oct 2, 11:58 am, nmp <addr...@is.invalid> wrote:
> A tiny little correction, if you don't mind, concerning the link "Svara
> Citera". Where it says "Three pictures and short article in a non-English
> language - possibly German or Dutch.", the language is actually Swedish.
>
> That bicycle confuses the hell out of me, BTW.

What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.

PhilD

--
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[mUs1Ka]

"PhilD" <phildeaves@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1191326261.857413.94720@d55g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>
> What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
> There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.
>


From the Swedish site in question:


Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience, bicycle
and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To ride
Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.


--
Ray
UK


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http://www.polesoft.com/refer.html

[nmp]

mUs1Ka wrote:

> "PhilD" <phildeaves@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1191326261.857413.94720@d55g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>>
>> What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down? There
>> doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.
>>
>>
>
> From the Swedish site in question:
>
>
> Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
> recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience,
> bicycle and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To
> ride Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.

I gathered as much from an online translation. But I still can't
visualise how the rider would even mount this particular beast.

[marian.rosenberg@gmail.com]

On Oct 2, 10:37 pm, "mUs1Ka" <mUs...@NOSPAMexcite.com> wrote:
> "PhilD" <phildea...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>
> news:1191326261.857413.94720@d55g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>
>
>
> > What do you do, lie on your front and kick your legs up and down?
> > There doesn't appear to another way of riding it, to me.
>
> From the Swedish site in question:
>
> Arthroped is a bicycle driven by both hands and feet, with a movement
> recognized from the skier, skater, or sprinter. As an experience, bicycle
> and body are one; control and movement are purely intuitive. To ride
> Arthroped is to not have to choose between comfort and performance.

Errr... because you have neither?