Re: little kids LOVE my bike!

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

[crossposting this to .tech]

Hey. Upward facing dropouts.

The *dropouts* point upwards, but their slots point down and to the
rear.

Chalo Colina

Chalo said:

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

[crossposting this to .tech]

Hey. Upward facing dropouts.

The *dropouts* point upwards, but their slots point down and to the
rear.

Front wheel, not rear. They go up and slightly forward, maybe at 30
degrees or so off vertical.

Of course, on a chopper that extreme, the front wheel should be very
nearly unloaded.

Jasper

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

[crossposting this to .tech]

Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?

Mark "I'm guessing it's not too light" Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

Hey. Upward facing dropouts.

Yep. Dumb design feature.

- Frank Krygowski

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:13:17 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

Quoted message said:

Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?

Mark "I'm guessing it's not too light" Hickey

Do you think it *can* go around corners?

Jasper

Jasper Janssen said:

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:13:17 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Jasper Janssen said:

On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 03:33:25 GMT, ATZ <[email hidden]> wrote:

>I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....
>
>http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

Quoted message said:

Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?

Mark "I'm guessing it's not too light" Hickey

Do you think it *can* go around corners?

I have serious doubts... I'm trying to picture the technique, and it's
scary at best, impossible at worst. I suspect it would either take a
great bit of body english to initiate a turn, or a LOT of
countersteering to get it leaning the right way.

Sadly, chopper style bikes (though not with THAT big of a square rear
tire) seem to be catching on with kids. I saw one duck-footing one
down a MUP a week ago - couldn't keep it going in a straight line long
enough to really pedal the stupid thing. Sigh...

Mark "my childhood bikes weren't cool but were functional" Hickey
Habanero Cycles
http://www.habcycles.com
Home of the $795 ti frame

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:13:09 -0700,
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Mark Hickey <[email hidden]> concluded:

Quoted message said:

Sadly, chopper style bikes (though not with THAT big of a square rear
tire) seem to be catching on with kids. I saw one duck-footing one
down a MUP a week ago - couldn't keep it going in a straight line long
enough to really pedal the stupid thing. Sigh..

They're a bit like recumbents in that they do alright once they get
rolling. The kid just couldn't get up enough speed on the FMUP so that
it would track straight. That they weigh a ton and are built like
typical *mart [censored] bikes makes them stupid for anything but styling'.
I'm sure not one of them would hold up to the abuse my J.C. Higgins
took from my pre-pubescent self.
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Chalo said:

Jasper Janssen said:

ATZ said:

I get that a lot as well (even from the big kids)!....

http://www.chopzone.com/gallery/brad-graham/overkill.htm

[crossposting this to .tech]

Hey. Upward facing dropouts.

The *dropouts* point upwards, but their slots point down and to the
rear.

I think the comment was referring to the tabs on the forks, which do
indeed point up.
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<Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?>

Have you ever noticed how the "NHRA PRO STOCK motor cycles" w/ huge
slicks turn in to the area at the end of the strip? They actually hang
way off to the side they want to turn and acheive very little turning,
just enough to get off the track. This is all at very slow speeds. I
don't think they turn much at all at high speed. At least I hope not.

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:13:09 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Jasper Janssen said:

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:13:17 -0700, Mark Hickey <[email hidden]>
wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?

Mark "I'm guessing it's not too light" Hickey

Do you think it *can* go around corners?

I have serious doubts... I'm trying to picture the technique, and it's
scary at best, impossible at worst. I suspect it would either take a
great bit of body english to initiate a turn, or a LOT of
countersteering to get it leaning the right way.

I think you need to make very sure you don't lean the bike. That will mean
going slowly around curves -- but since there does not appear to be a
brake anywhere on there, aside from being a fixie, I wouldn't want to get
that amount of kinetic energy going too fast anyway.

Quoted message said:

Sadly, chopper style bikes (though not with THAT big of a square rear
tire) seem to be catching on with kids. I saw one duck-footing one
down a MUP a week ago - couldn't keep it going in a straight line long
enough to really pedal the stupid thing. Sigh...

Yeah, well, it's a MUP. They're usually crowded enough to make any bike
need to use it as a walker.

Jasper