Cyclefest Pictures

Just zis Guy said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

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That red Stinger looks really nice, but is the boom set long enough?

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Just zis Guy said:

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So, it's the yellow jersey then?

Looks like lots of fun:-)

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Just zis Guy said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest

2004...

Fantastic pictures. Don't know if you'll want the ones I took now!
They're having to make the transition from an old zoom-lensed film
camera via a creaky scanner. :-)

Becky
--
Windcheetah 202

Just zis Guy said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

<url:http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Cyclefest>

Guy

Shimano sandals - a man with taste ;-)

Tony

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By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

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Arellcat said:

Fantastic pictures. Don't know if you'll want the ones I took now!
They're having to make the transition from an old zoom-lensed film
camera via a creaky scanner. :-)

I'm sure I will, though - the boys are very pleased :-)

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you know? said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

<url:http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Cyclefest>

Excellent pictures. Thanks. Nice to see the Foska Marmite cycle shirt
putting in an appearance in the final two photos. I notice that Foska now
do a Marmite drinks bottle (as well as a London Pride one!)

I do like their shirts (even if they are pricey) but I refuse to buy the
London Pride shirt (despite it being one of my favourite pints when I
lived down south, (south England anyway)) and I have asked Foska to sort
out a Black Sheep shirt. They have yet to take me up on this. If anyone
else wants to recommend that they produce such a shirt then feel free to
contact them ( http://www.foska.com/acatalog/info.html )

Colin

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

I'm not surprised you didn't do well in the race. All the photos are of you
doing a very impressive track stand in front of the same bush. The blurred
spokes are obviously Photo-Shopped :-)

Graeme

Graeme said:

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

I'm not surprised you didn't do well in the race. All the photos are of you
doing a very impressive track stand in front of the same bush. The blurred
spokes are obviously Photo-Shopped :-)

My thoughts also - note the identical leg positions in all the Stinger
photos ;-)

Tony

you know? said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

<url:http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Cyclefest>

Guy

Nice family shots.

That recumbent, how do you get on with front wheel 'heel strike'?
Looking at the side view photograph your foot looks mighty close to
the front wheel, and it 'looks' as though it would be difficult to
avoid. I've got 'heel strike' on the brain at the moment [what a sad
man], as I'm at the stage where I'm looking to attach the boom to the
frame of my homebuild. I want the BB/seat height to be about the same,
higher than the Tour Easy style but not as high as
'feet in the sky rides', I could do with a bit of blood left in the
legs! The seat is be adjustable, but the boom won't be.

Is it a case that you often get heel strike with SWB but just 'get
used to it', remembering that for most cycling needs the steering is
not rotating that sharply much of the time?

Garry

garryb59 [email hidden] opined the following...

Quoted message said:

Is it a case that you often get heel strike with SWB but just 'get
used to it', remembering that for most cycling needs the steering is
not rotating that sharply much of the time?

Never had heel strike on my bent. I think it's more of a problem with
low-racers (or low-er racers!). Heel strike was a major issue for me
when I test rode the Toxy ZR.

Jon

garryb59 said:

Is it a case that you often get heel strike with SWB but just 'get
used to it', remembering that for most cycling needs the steering is
not rotating that sharply much of the time?

Not at all, it depends on the individual design. It's /possible/ but
has never been on issue on Roos' Fiero (semi-low, similar to Guy's) and
on my Streetmachine GT it's impossible AFAICT, at least with size 43/8.5
feet.

Don't recall getting it on other SWB I've spent a few hours on: Optima
Lynx, Challenge Mistral, Rainbow Lyner and Orbit Crystal, though the
Crystal you had a "knee strike" problem on the bars for sharp corners at
low speeds, I also found that on the HPVel Wavey and my pal who's just
got a Kingcycle reports similar. Only a problem on overseat steer with
superman-style bars though.

Pete.
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Peter Clinch said:

garryb59 wrote:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Is it a case that you often get heel strike with SWB but just 'get
used to it', remembering that for most cycling needs the steering is
not rotating that sharply much of the time?

Quoted message said:

Not at all, it depends on the individual design. It's /possible/ but
has never been on issue on Roos' Fiero (semi-low, similar to Guy's) and
on my Streetmachine GT it's impossible AFAICT, at least with size 43/8.5
feet.

I have hit the front wheel with my heel a couple of times, each time at
very low speed while manouvering through a gate or something. Actually the
sort of speed where you know it would be easier to unclip and just walk
instead of wobbling 🙂

I think that at the angle for the front wheel where heel strike becomes
possible there would be all sorts of other problems if I was going at any
speed...

Roos

Peter Clinch wrote (of SWB heel strike):

Quoted message said:

Not at all, it depends on the individual design. It's /possible/ but
has never been on issue on Roos' Fiero (semi-low, similar to Guy's) and
on my Streetmachine GT it's impossible AFAICT, at least with size 43/8.5
feet.

It's not impossible on my SMGT, with my size 8.5 feet. It's unusual,
and easily avoided, but still possible when turning sharp corners at low
speed.

Of course, the boom length could make all the difference. My legs are
31". If yours are an inch or two longer then heel strike probably would
be impossible.

Anyway, I won't respond to any response to this, because I'm off to
Crawley now for this:
<URL:http://www.circuswurx.co.uk/conv.html>

TTFN.

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Danny Colyer said:

Of course, the boom length could make all the difference. My legs are
31". If yours are an inch or two longer then heel strike probably would
be impossible.

Mine are too, but OTOH I seem to ankle a fair bit and actually like a
saddle higher than some folk with longer legs, and I imagine boom length
would be similar. I note from Pashley's literature that the Muni 26 is
for a min inside leg of 32, but I ride mine with a few inches of
seatpost out from the bottom, even after taking your advice of getting
instep rather than ball of the foot onto the pedal. So it's either odd,
or I have super elastic multi dimensional legs, which would be odd as
well... ;-)

Pete.
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Danny Colyer said:

Of course, the boom length could make all the difference. My legs

are

Quoted message said:

31". If yours are an inch or two longer then heel strike probably

would

Quoted message said:

be impossible.

This is quite true. By way of reference, my feet are sufficiently
long for my heels to easily touch the ground at the bottom of the
pedal stroke when I'm on my Windcheetah. I rode a Speedmachine for a
few weeks last year (nice!) and never noticed any heel strike - but
this was probably because I had the boom set quite a long way out to
accommodate my legs.

I suppose one could encounter something similar to heel strike on
certain tadpole trikes. Certainly the Windcheetah is rather
narrow-tracked, and friction burns to the side of the thighs from the
tyres isn't unheard of. Most of the time when riding, one isn't
manoevuring, and so the amount of steering required is quite small,
and heel/wheel strike doesn't usually occur.

Becky
--
Windcheetah 202

garryb59 said:

That recumbent, how do you get on with front wheel 'heel strike'?

I avoid sharp turns while pedalling :-) Seriously, I ride it every day
commuting, I've only once or twice had heel interference problems, always on
low-speed turns, and it's never caused me to crash.

Quoted message said:

Is it a case that you often get heel strike with SWB but just 'get
used to it', remembering that for most cycling needs the steering is
not rotating that sharply much of the time?

That seems like a fair assessment to me. The risk is always there - or the
possibility, rather - but other riders of SWB bikes don't report problems,
and I don't experience them, so probably the rider just compensates.

I wouldn't turn sharply on that bike anyway, one more reason why I keep to
the roads :-)

Guy
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Just zis Guy said:

By way of light relief, here are some pictures from Cyclefest 2004:

<url:http://www.chapmancentral.co.uk/web/public.nsf/Documents/Cyclefest>

Guy

Ermmm, Guy? What's that funny thing on top of your head. It wouldn't
be a magic beanie would it? Surely not!

Tony ;-)

Reply to Arellcat

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By way of reference, my feet are sufficiently
long for my heels to easily touch the ground at the bottom of the
pedal stroke when I'm on my Windcheetah

Me too, in my size 12 sandals.

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Certainly the Windcheetah is rather
narrow-tracked, and friction burns to the side of the thighs from the
tyres isn't unheard of.

I wear baggy cargos with things in the pockets, and regularly zizz the
fabric against the spokes; I've also - once - received a nice tyre
burn on my lower leg when relaxing at the end of a ride.

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