Giraffe gliding (unintentional)

That's quite impressive. How hard was it to control at the
"geared up"? How in the world did you manage to stay up
while gliding? Was there any resistance, or was it just
really fast? What was that dismount like?

On a side note, that frame looks strangely like a Hunter:

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Ouch, get some wrist and elbow guards for future speed runs.
Even if the hub holds in the future there is always the
chance of a high speed forward fall into a superman slide.

Sounds like you're working your way up in the gear ratios. I
have a 20" wheel geared 2/1 for a 40" equivalent.

I don't ride it often, my only injury so far is from when I
was getting used to it after a long period of non-use.
Because of the light wheel and the large gear the wheel
tends to "shoot" out in front because the wheel has traveled
twice as far as your brain thinks it it going to. One time
it really shot forward, I went straight down and my leg hit
the chain ring. Only a little pain and a grease sprocket
tatoo. No permanent tatoo.

Keep us posted on your progress.

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What a cool giraffe. Are you going to reweld the freewheel
and try again?

UniBrier's giraffe is actually pretty easy to ride. It's
REALLY difficult to mount and, surprisingly, to dismount.
I had a hard time predicting where the rascal would go
when I got off.

Are you freemounting this thing? Do you find it hard to
dismount with a large effective wheel diameter?

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Hey, If you welded some pegs to the side where the seat was
just above the pedal clearance you could glide, that would
be awesome. it would be the first giraffe glide ive ever
seen. But definetely a cool thingymabobbit.

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thats really cool! there is another story about
unintentional giraffe gliding i wasnt there, but i will
throw out the word "freewheel" talk to ender about it, i'll
try and get him to post it for you

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-------How hard was it to control at the "geared up"? How in
the world did you manage to stay up while gliding?------

It's easy enough to ride once you get up to speed, but very
counter intuitive setting off, it keeps shooting out from
underneath. I didn't so much 'manage to stay up' whilst
freewheeling, more I 'happened to stay up', briefly. By the
time I'd twigged what was going on, gravity had helped
itself to a greater share of the equation, and I was landing
backwards onto my hands. I got away with minor bruises and
aching wrists.

With the freewheel fully seam welded, I took it along to the
unimeet where a few others had a go, geared to 36". Roger
tried to freemount it, but the cluster loosened from it's
thread (I'd spent hours trying to make it do this!)

I'm confident it can be ridden at much higher gearings
(60"?), but needs the cluster welding on tight, and plenty
of body armour. Could do with a new heavy duty chain, as
it's taking some serious forces, also needs some 'prettying
up' too.....

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