Friday Kicks
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Marty
Feb 10, 2012, 6:58:23 AM2/10/12
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Actually looks like fun! (But leave the naming to the experts at Rivendell.)
Eric Norris
Feb 10, 2012, 10:09:09 AM2/10/12
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Somebody did PBP on one of these. Crazy.
--Eric N
Actually looks like fun! (But leave the naming to the experts at Rivendell.)
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Montclair BobbyB
Feb 10, 2012, 10:54:38 AM2/10/12
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I love new ideas for anything with wheels, but this contraption, while
I imagine would be fun to tool around on for about 10 minutes, as a
bonafide means of transportation would have me longing for a seat and
pedals, especially in a city environment or on any decent upslope.
During any given ride route there are lots of places where it's just
not safe to put one's foot down (to get that much-needed push)... the
risk of injury goes up once your foot engages the pavement on a moving
bike... That platform is also awfully skinny for 2 feet to fit
safely.
(Boy what a downer I am for a Friday!!!). But seriously, I start to
shake my head when the designers of these fun vehicles try to take
themselves too seriously. You know, there's good reason why the
earliest bicycle designs known as 'walk-alongs', a form of 'push bike'
that lacked a mechanical drive train never evolved, and instead the
drivetrain-powered bicycle replaced this design, and has evolved so
over the past 100+ years.
I'd love to tool around the neighborhood on this, but send me to the
store with it, and I'd be hitching a ride home, after tossing this in
the creek... thank you. Give me a bicycle... thank God for the
development of the drivetrain... Now THAT I can toast to on any
Friday!!!!
Peace,
Bobby (Debbie Downer) Birmingham
On Feb 10, 10:09 am, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote:
> Somebody did PBP on one of these. Crazy.
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> --Eric N
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I imagine would be fun to tool around on for about 10 minutes, as a
bonafide means of transportation would have me longing for a seat and
pedals, especially in a city environment or on any decent upslope.
During any given ride route there are lots of places where it's just
not safe to put one's foot down (to get that much-needed push)... the
risk of injury goes up once your foot engages the pavement on a moving
bike... That platform is also awfully skinny for 2 feet to fit
safely.
(Boy what a downer I am for a Friday!!!). But seriously, I start to
shake my head when the designers of these fun vehicles try to take
themselves too seriously. You know, there's good reason why the
earliest bicycle designs known as 'walk-alongs', a form of 'push bike'
that lacked a mechanical drive train never evolved, and instead the
drivetrain-powered bicycle replaced this design, and has evolved so
over the past 100+ years.
I'd love to tool around the neighborhood on this, but send me to the
store with it, and I'd be hitching a ride home, after tossing this in
the creek... thank you. Give me a bicycle... thank God for the
development of the drivetrain... Now THAT I can toast to on any
Friday!!!!
Peace,
Bobby (Debbie Downer) Birmingham
On Feb 10, 10:09 am, Eric Norris <campyonly...@me.com> wrote:
> Somebody did PBP on one of these. Crazy.
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Thomas Nezovich
Feb 10, 2012, 3:35:07 PM2/10/12
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Mahatma Kane Jeeves was one of W.C. Fields may pseudonyms he used when helping write scripts for his movies. It has been said to recall a patrician call to a servant: " My hat, my cane, Jeeves".
There are some Amish communities ( at least here in Ohio ) that do not permit bicycles but do permit kick bikes like this one.
On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Marty wrote:
Actually looks like fun! (But leave the naming to the experts at Rivendell.)
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William
Feb 10, 2012, 3:46:15 PM2/10/12
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William Claude Dukenfield would have been a great bike name. But after the Honus Wagner hornet's nest, I don't expect Riv would be game to pursue it. :)
Montclair BobbyB
Feb 10, 2012, 9:32:41 PM2/10/12
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No offense to all the wonderful young Amish people in Eastern Ohio...
Come to think of it, I sold my Fargo Land Beast to a gentleman in
Amish country (Southeast Ohio) who is a tractor dealer. I can only
imagine what all those kids on their kickbikes must think when the see
this beast pedallin' up the dirt roads... "Boy, I wish we could ride
one of THOSE"...
BB
On Feb 10, 3:35 pm, Thomas Nezovich <t...@cox.net> wrote:
> Mahatma Kane Jeeves was one of W.C. Fields may pseudonyms he used when helping write scripts for his movies. It has been said to recall a patrician call to a servant: " My hat, my cane, Jeeves".
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> There are some Amish communities ( at least here in Ohio ) that do not permit bicycles but do permit kick bikes like this one.
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Marty wrote:
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> >http://scootersport.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/fantasy-footbikes-the-ri...
Come to think of it, I sold my Fargo Land Beast to a gentleman in
Amish country (Southeast Ohio) who is a tractor dealer. I can only
imagine what all those kids on their kickbikes must think when the see
this beast pedallin' up the dirt roads... "Boy, I wish we could ride
one of THOSE"...
BB
On Feb 10, 3:35 pm, Thomas Nezovich <t...@cox.net> wrote:
> Mahatma Kane Jeeves was one of W.C. Fields may pseudonyms he used when helping write scripts for his movies. It has been said to recall a patrician call to a servant: " My hat, my cane, Jeeves".
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> There are some Amish communities ( at least here in Ohio ) that do not permit bicycles but do permit kick bikes like this one.
> On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Marty wrote:
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