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Date: 13 Apr 2007 13:03:22
From: Steve Freides
Subject: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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http://www.streetrower.com
No connection, saw link on one of the lifting newsgroups. If you don't
want to bother with the link, it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
I can't figure out where the brakes are, though.
-S-
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Date: 14 Apr 2007 09:08:03
From: Ewoud Dronkert
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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Steve Freides wrote:
> it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
This one is much better: http://www.rowingbike.com/main.php?sNewLang=GB
(not a trike).
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E. Dronkert
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Date: 15 Apr 2007 18:19:28
From: John Forrest Tomlinson
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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There are some excercise bikes in my gym -- I think they are called
"spinning bikes." I wonder if it would be possible to put wheels on
them and have the pedalling drive the wheels, so you could roll around
while exercising.
Maybe there could even be competitions for these outside two-wheel
exercise bikes. How cool would that be?
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JT
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Date: 16 Apr 2007 06:46:00
From: Ryan Cousineau
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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In article <8595235ger5cvm2oat36be6fhiq6urcpof@4ax.com >,
John Forrest Tomlinson <usenetremove@jt10000.com > wrote:
> There are some excercise bikes in my gym -- I think they are called
> "spinning bikes." I wonder if it would be possible to put wheels on
> them and have the pedalling drive the wheels, so you could roll around
> while exercising.
>
> Maybe there could even be competitions for these outside two-wheel
> exercise bikes. How cool would that be?
That's crazy talk, and dangerous to boot. Now how about if we set up the
spinning bikes so we could see the relative distances on each of them
all at once, and we could stage indoor races! For no reason, we could
call them "roller races."
Of course, there's an indoor velodrome closer to my house than any
roller race rigs...
Speaking of racing spinning bikes outside, today's Cat 4/5 race featured
91 starters, but somehow managed to have a million crashes, none of
which caught me.
One guy broke 9 ribs! A teammate hit the ground so hard a witness swears
he bounced. On the first lap, a rider hit an ill-placed temporary
traffic sign (set up by the race officials, sigh) and catapulted into
another rider.
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Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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Date: 16 Apr 2007 06:51:47
From: John Forrest Tomlinson
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:46:00 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca >
wrote:
> On the first lap, a rider hit an ill-placed temporary
>traffic sign (set up by the race officials, sigh)
State it right -- it's "A rider was hit by an ill-placed traffic
sign."
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Date: 18 Apr 2007 08:30:33
From: Ryan Cousineau
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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In article <v8l62352d0v81od0tubpgm690l3olag23h@4ax.com >,
John Forrest Tomlinson <usenetremove@jt10000.com > wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:46:00 GMT, Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca>
> wrote:
>
> > On the first lap, a rider hit an ill-placed temporary
> >traffic sign (set up by the race officials, sigh)
>
> State it right -- it's "A rider was hit by an ill-placed traffic
> sign."
Even the passive voice can't fully diminish rider responsibility here.
Big pack, bad sign at a bad place in the course (course suddenly jogs
right as it passes through an intersection, 3' wide sign is on the
centreline of the road after the jog to the right, which puts it right
in the path of any riders hard up against the centreline before the
intersection, no prior markings or cones to move riders to the
right...), but I still had that one figured out as trouble (and put
myself in the proper place) before the nose of the pack got to the sign.
That said, I had to move right to make room for other riders who had
judged circumstances less carefully, and ended up leaning on another
rider twice in quick succession (and subsequently thanked him for
responding to this rare-in-4/5 body contact in a completely sensible
way).
The ill-fated riders were behind me in the pack, but not that far
behind. I heard (but didn't see) the accident up close.
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Ryan Cousineau rcousine@sfu.ca http://www.wiredcola.com/
"I don't want kids who are thinking about going into mathematics
to think that they have to take drugs to succeed." -Paul Erdos
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Date: 14 Apr 2007 09:17:21
From: Steve Freides
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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"Ewoud Dronkert" <firstname@lastname.net.invalid > wrote in message
news:46207dd4$0$326$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Steve Freides wrote:
>> it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
>
> This one is much better:
> http://www.rowingbike.com/main.php?sNewLang=GB
> (not a trike).
It looks more like cycling than the one I linked to, perhaps because the
feet move. I don't know if that means it involves more of what a
cyclist can already do than the first one (nor do I wish to pronounce
judgment on whether that's good, bad, or doesn't matter).
Thanks for the link.
-S-
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Date: 14 Apr 2007 00:34:10
From: William Asher
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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Steve Freides wrote:
> http://www.streetrower.com
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> No connection, saw link on one of the lifting newsgroups. If you don't
> want to bother with the link, it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
>
> I can't figure out where the brakes are, though.
At first I thought: "Finally, a road-capable HPV for those of us who are
tired of facing in the forward direction."
I've waited this long, I can wait some more.
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Bill Asher
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Date: 13 Apr 2007 23:46:30
From: Kyle Legate
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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Steve Freides wrote:
> http://www.streetrower.com
>
> No connection, saw link on one of the lifting newsgroups. If you don't
> want to bother with the link, it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
>
> I can't figure out where the brakes are, though.
>
>
It's a fixed gear.
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Date: 13 Apr 2007 14:02:08
From: TJG
Subject: Re: StreetRower, for people who need yet another kind of bike
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On Apr 13, 1:03 pm, "Steve Freides" <s...@fridayscomputer.com > wrote:
> http://www.streetrower.com
>
> No connection, saw link on one of the lifting newsgroups. If you don't
> want to bother with the link, it's a recumbent trike you row of pedal.
>
> I can't figure out where the brakes are, though.
>
> -S-
Brakes are at the left hip. It looks like a single lever operates all
the brakes. Steering is operated by a joy stick on the grip under the
right thumb. It controls a 12v motor under the seat.
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