distance on a giraffe

You can change the cog and bring up the wheel size to a 36" or close to
it, I did it on my 5ft'r but it was nothing like riding my Coker.

Coker speeds 5 or 6 feet in the air feel just a little different?
After a long ride your landing gear might not be ready for that
dismount:eek:

Have fun!

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Well my giraffe has a 24" from the standard 20". But putting a 29" or
higher looks tempting. 😄

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been done.

you can change the lower and upper cogs around, and mess with the chain
to get some higher gearing.

It's a better idea to lower the giraffe to a safer hieght for bailing,
and geared giraffes that are short like that are known as penguins.
(don't ask, i dunno why)

i intended to make one of those, but hten i got a coker when my
bike-ressurrection attempt failed.

Do a search for skippi (i dunno where he went, but he made one),
penguin, or geared giraffe and you'll get a ton of hits.

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maxcarriere said:

nah, he just wants to buy the cranks to look at them and rub them on his
body..

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I'm think of converting mine into a kangaroo giraffe unicycle. 😄

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Hazmat said:

I'm think of converting mine into a kangaroo giraffe unicycle. 😄

I don't think it gets much more dangerous than that, unless you gear it
up, but then you're just begging to get hurt.

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SNES350 said:

I don't think it gets much more dangerous than that, unless you gear it
up, but then you're just begging to get hurt.

Gearing it up wouldn't really work, because then the bouncing of the
wheel/frame/saddle and the cranks would be out of phase (unless the
gearing was an integer ratio) whihc would spoil the kangaroo effect.

Cokers are easy to ride at speed not just because of their high gear,
but also because they're very stable due to the rotational inertia of
the large and heavy wheel. A geared 20" would lack this, making it
difficult to hold speed on long rides. There's a good reason that
despite the fact it would be cheaper than a coker, geared giraffes have
never caught on.

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SNES350 said:

I don't think it gets much more dangerous than that, unless you gear it
up, but then you're just begging to get hurt.

Really? Maybe i should make it then. 😄

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