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Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

But are you eating it?
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del 8-)

wafflycat said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

Cheers, helen s

Bah, Pete and Roos head south and the weather turns grey and muggy..

Come back, all is forgiven!

...d

~waves~

wafflycat said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

And posting to usenet 😉

Will you be taking them for^W on a ride?

A

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Quoted message said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

While reading Peter's letter in the comic!

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Quoted message said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

While reading Peter's letter in the comic!

Which comic would that be? Cycling Weakly?

...d

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wafflycat said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

And posting to usenet 😉

Will you be taking them for^W on a ride?

A

They've just departed en route to their evening destination in Norfolk. It
was lovely to meet them. We had ice cream, iced tea, cake... Pete offered me
a go on his streetmachine. I managed ooh, all of zero inches on it - it felt
very alien to me compared to the Trice. The extra wheel on the Trice makes
all the difference for me :-) Much chatting about steeds and where to visit
in Norfolk sur Velo.

Cheers, helen s

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Quoted message said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

While reading Peter's letter in the comic!

Which comic would that be? Cycling Weakly?

Indeed yes - as opposed to the July's RadioUser magazine which has a 3 page
article written by moi.
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page503.htm

For which I received the princely sum of 150 squids. Wonder if I have to pay
tax on it?
No - I'll steal some of it back from the money they took from my importing a
bike from the USA - it'll be our little secret :-)

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Simon Mason
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wafflycat said:

Mr Clinch & Vernon are discussing steeds outside.

Roos & I are being sensible & having cake

I was going to suggest a "say hi, then send them south to Suffolk", but I
see later in the thread that they've already gone to Norfolk.

- Nigel

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Webmaster at http://www.2mm.org.uk/

wafflycat said:

Pete offered me
a go on his streetmachine. I managed ooh, all of zero inches on it

I never pictured you as having long enough legs for the Street Machine.
Can you use leg length as an excuse?

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wafflycat said:

Pete offered me a go on his streetmachine. I managed ooh, all of zero
inches on it

I never pictured you as having long enough legs for the Street Machine.
Can you use leg length as an excuse?

Alas, no. Leg length was okay. It's just me being totally naff. On the other
hand, I think I could use my large rear and ample bosums giving too high a
centre of gravity to be stable as an excuse :-)

Cheers, helen s

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Quoted message said:

For which I received the princely sum of 150 squids. Wonder if I have to
pay tax on it?
No - I'll steal some of it back from the money they took from my importing
a bike from the USA - it'll be our little secret :-)

</snip>

Bit on the light side. I'm non-NUJ but I usually start at £280 for 1,500
words depending on the magazine.

Here's a guide:

http://www.londonfreelance.org/rates/w1000mag.html

I wouldn't declare it for tax... better still, try and get the payment made
to a non earning relative :-)

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Quoted message said:

<snip>

Quoted message said:

For which I received the princely sum of 150 squids. Wonder if I have to
pay tax on it?
No - I'll steal some of it back from the money they took from my
importing a bike from the USA - it'll be our little secret :-)

</snip>

Bit on the light side. I'm non-NUJ but I usually start at £280 for 1,500
words depending on the magazine.

Here's a guide:

http://www.londonfreelance.org/rates/w1000mag.html

I wouldn't declare it for tax... better still, try and get the payment
made to a non earning relative :-)

Anything is a bonus - I haven't even got an English O level, let alone make
my living by writing ;-)

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Simon Mason
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

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Quoted message said:

wafflycat said:

Pete offered me a go on his streetmachine. I managed ooh, all of zero
inches on it

I never pictured you as having long enough legs for the Street
Machine. Can you use leg length as an excuse?

Alas, no. Leg length was okay. It's just me being totally naff. On the
other hand, I think I could use my large rear and ample bosums giving
too high a centre of gravity to be stable as an excuse :-)

Don't worry, I managed exactly the same distance on it (and on Roos's
Fiero). I think it was nervousness about damaging someone else's pride
and joy.

--
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Simon Brooke said:

Quoted message said:

Alas, no. Leg length was okay. It's just me being totally naff. On the
other hand, I think I could use my large rear and ample bosums giving
too high a centre of gravity to be stable as an excuse :-)

Don't worry, I managed exactly the same distance on it (and on Roos's
Fiero). I think it was nervousness about damaging someone else's pride
and joy.

Though I recollect you doing rather better on Hooves - was it the
presence of a wicker basket, or knowing that any bends could easily be
rectified by application of an arc welder..

...d

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Martin (') said:

Simon Brooke said:

Quoted message said:

Alas, no. Leg length was okay. It's just me being totally naff. On
the other hand, I think I could use my large rear and ample bosums
giving too high a centre of gravity to be stable as an excuse :-)

Don't worry, I managed exactly the same distance on it (and on Roos's
Fiero). I think it was nervousness about damaging someone else's pride
and joy.

Though I recollect you doing rather better on Hooves - was it the
presence of a wicker basket, or knowing that any bends could easily be
rectified by application of an arc welder..

Don't know. Hooves was more awkward to mount and should have been harder
to ride, but I knew Jon better.

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See one nuclear war, you've seen them all.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:44:25 +0100, Simon Brooke wrote:

(Simon & I seem to be the only ones awake atm ;-)

Quoted message said:

Don't worry, I managed exactly the same distance on it (and on Roos's
Fiero). I think it was nervousness about damaging someone else's pride and
joy.

Lots of people have ridden my Speed Ross. The ones who get on best with
it (and it is rather twitchy) are those who say "Please, could I have a
go. Please." The ones who don't get on well are those who sit on it and
say "How do you steer it?". It has overseat steering with conventional
bars.

Here's a pic of Jon on Hooves (2?) with wicker basket, following the
Maker and Purveyor of Wicker Baskets to the Nobility, Gentry and
Other Cyclists, David Hembrow.
http://www.mikecauser.com/images/cambent-0004.jpg

Note that we are in the UK's largest ASL box......

Mike

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Quoted message said:

wafflycat said:

Pete offered me a go on his streetmachine. I managed ooh, all of zero
inches on it

I never pictured you as having long enough legs for the Street Machine.
Can you use leg length as an excuse?

Alas, no. Leg length was okay. It's just me being totally naff. On the other
hand, I think I could use my large rear and ample bosums giving too high a
centre of gravity to be stable as an excuse :-)

shouldn't a higher CoG make it easier to balance? I had a tryout of a
lwb bent bike at a company of cyclists do a few weeks back. It felt
hard to relax back into the seat they were right. It was the only way
to do it. DD liked a trailer bike but I found it terribly sloppy.

best wishes
james

Quoted message said:

shouldn't a higher CoG make it easier to balance?

I always thought a _lower_ centre of gravity gave you better balance.

Imagine a straight line between your front and rear wheels as your
balance line. You want to keep your COG above this line.

If your COG is 25cm above ground, and you lean 5 degrees, your COG is
2.2cm outside your balance line - but if your COG is 1m above ground,
and you lean 5 degrees, your COG moves to 8.8cm outside your balance
line. This means that you are inherently less stable - factor in the
leverage effect that a higher COG has and you get a much greater pull
downwards.

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Stevie D said:

Quoted message said:

shouldn't a higher CoG make it easier to balance?

I always thought a _lower_ centre of gravity gave you better balance.

Imagine a straight line between your front and rear wheels as your
balance line. You want to keep your COG above this line.

If your COG is 25cm above ground, and you lean 5 degrees, your COG is
2.2cm outside your balance line - but if your COG is 1m above ground,
and you lean 5 degrees, your COG moves to 8.8cm outside your balance
line. This means that you are inherently less stable - factor in the
leverage effect that a higher COG has and you get a much greater pull
downwards.

Try balancing a pencil on it's end on your finger, then try something
similar but about a metre long. I've tried this theory out on two
significantly different heights of unicycle - the taller one was much
easier to balance on as it seemed like you had much more time between
when you noticed it starting to topple and it getting beyond what you
could recover from.

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JimP

" " - John Cage