Comments on: Haul your crutches with it! http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haul-your-crutches-with-it Fri, 11 May 2012 19:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: fred http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-11653 fred Tue, 03 Oct 2006 16:23:50 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11653 <p>Thomas, if part of your trip to Florida includes Daytona Beach, the sand here is hard enough (in some places and some of <br /> the time) to drive an automobile on it. I have occasionally (rarely) driven my bike on the sand and have also taken<br /> my (then human powered only) Alleweder velomobile on it. It takes me twice as much effort to pedal the velomobile<br /> on the sand as it does on pavement, but it’s still rideable. Some of the soft spots are best taken at highest possible speed.<br /> With those fat tires, you’d float over it all.</p> Thomas, if part of your trip to Florida includes Daytona Beach, the sand here is hard enough (in some places and some of
the time) to drive an automobile on it. I have occasionally (rarely) driven my bike on the sand and have also taken
my (then human powered only) Alleweder velomobile on it. It takes me twice as much effort to pedal the velomobile
on the sand as it does on pavement, but it’s still rideable. Some of the soft spots are best taken at highest possible speed.
With those fat tires, you’d float over it all.

]]> By: Thomas http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-11647 Thomas Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:19:47 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=142#comment-11647 <p>Wow. No matter how many times I see those fat tires, I can’t get over how <span class="caps">FAT </span>those tires are! I mean, I could ride through sand with… hey, now you got me thinking about our trip to Florida….</p> Wow. No matter how many times I see those fat tires, I can’t get over how FAT those tires are! I mean, I could ride through sand with… hey, now you got me thinking about our trip to Florida….

]]> By: miketually http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10551 miketually Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:01:22 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=142#comment-10551 <p>“a solar panel array sounds good until the rider or the bike casts a shadow over the cells”</p> <p>If the array is charging a battery, that doesn’t matter.</p> “a solar panel array sounds good until the rider or the bike casts a shadow over the cells”

If the array is charging a battery, that doesn’t matter.

]]> By: Max http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10498 Max Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:28:18 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=142#comment-10498 <p>it probably can be modified to lean, but in this instance (rider can only use one leg), or if it needs to carry something as tall as a nonfolding wheelchair, I think leaning is a bad idea. </p> <p>I have a leaning sidecar for my mountainbike. putting a large tall thing on like a washing machine prohibits leaning. or the base gets too wide. </p> <p>a solar panel array sounds good until the rider or the bike casts a shadow over the cells.</p> it probably can be modified to lean, but in this instance (rider can only use one leg), or if it needs to carry something as tall as a nonfolding wheelchair, I think leaning is a bad idea.

I have a leaning sidecar for my mountainbike. putting a large tall thing on like a washing machine prohibits leaning. or the base gets too wide.

a solar panel array sounds good until the rider or the bike casts a shadow over the cells.

]]> By: fred http://clevercycles.com/blog/2006/09/06/haul-your-crutches-with-it/comment-page-1/#comment-10494 fred Wed, 06 Sep 2006 19:07:59 +0000 http://todd.cleverchimp.com/blog/?p=142#comment-10494 <p>that’s a great bike! A platform for a wheelchair would work too, I’ll bet. In the Daytona Beach, FL <span class="caps">USA </span>area there was a guy with a motorcycle of similar design. He was able to roll his wheelchair up a ramp on the back and operate the bike from extended controls.</p> <p>I’ve got stashed away somewhere a video tape from a subscription to Cyclopedia (sp?), a magazine that hasn’t been published for years, I think. It had a bolt on kit for a sidecar for an upright bike and it had a parallelogram arrangement which allowed the bike to lean into turns. I’m sorry to say that I don’t have any idea where that tape is, or if it still resides under this roof. If I come across it, I’ll YouTube it and post.</p> that’s a great bike! A platform for a wheelchair would work too, I’ll bet. In the Daytona Beach, FL USA area there was a guy with a motorcycle of similar design. He was able to roll his wheelchair up a ramp on the back and operate the bike from extended controls.

I’ve got stashed away somewhere a video tape from a subscription to Cyclopedia (sp?), a magazine that hasn’t been published for years, I think. It had a bolt on kit for a sidecar for an upright bike and it had a parallelogram arrangement which allowed the bike to lean into turns. I’m sorry to say that I don’t have any idea where that tape is, or if it still resides under this roof. If I come across it, I’ll YouTube it and post.

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