Wow!

Mikael Seierup said:

We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)
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I recall advertisements for the original Green Machine from the late 1970's. They portrayed the
rider(s) doing brake steer U-turns.

I want an adult sized version of the Swingracer.
<http://www.a-winther.com/scripts/bike.asp?model=Swingracer&id=472.00>

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth

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I want an adult sized version of the Swingracer.
<http://www.a-winther.com/scripts/bike.asp?model=Swingracer&id=472.00>

Theres one a bit like it in Atomic Zombies Bike Builders Bonanza book. Called the spincycle. FWD,
FWS and two shopping trolley wheels in the back. Tested by his son "Roadkill".

Mikael

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We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)
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BRITONS might like to know that these devices are available from larger branches of Halfords.

This has been a public service announcement.

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Wheels are on the wrong end!!! 🙂

Mikael Seierup said:

We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)
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(link nabbed from swedish HPV-page)

Mikael

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there is a different version of the rides noted in this thread, two in front (FWD) and one rear
(rear steering) called the Sidewinder. Visit sidewindercycle.comsidewindercycle.comOpen ↗ for some information.
What they don't tell you is that it is a heavy heavy vehicle. The rear wheel steering linkage can be
dis-engaged (at least on the one I rode) and you can steer with the brakes. If you detach the
steering and tap one brake, it spins around virtually out of control and if you are going fast
enough, it wants to throw you out of the seat.

Curious design, in that the seat is not secured to any part of the frame, but it sits in notches on
brackets. Easily adjustable, certainly.

fred

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Originally posted by Tom Sherman

BMikael Seierup said:

We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)
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I recall advertisements for the original Green Machine from the late 1970's. They portrayed the
rider(s) doing brake steer U-turns.

I want an adult sized version of the Swingracer.
<http://www.a-winther.com/scripts/bike.asp?model=Swingracer&id=472.00>

Tom Sherman - Planet Earth [/B]

Looking at the assembly instructions leaves me wondering - is the Swingracer configurable in all these different configurations?

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Originally posted by Mikael Seierup
We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)
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(link nabbed from swedish HPV-page)

Mikael

I’ve examined this close-up, if you replaced the rear wheels/tires with something heavier, it might hold up for an adult. With its 180 lb weight limit it could take small adults.
Maybe you’d need reinforce the frame, but it looks like the first weight limitation would be those rear wheels. It freewheels, but that leaves you a single speed at about 20 gear inches.

Baccara, Raven, and Trailmate Funcycle are adult versions of these fwd deltas, all use lean steer attached directly to the rear subframe rather than the joysticks connecting the rear via rods.

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Tom Sherman said:

Mikael Seierup said:

We need to lobby these guys for an adult version. :-)

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I recall advertisements for the original Green Machine from the late 1970's. They portrayed
the rider(s) doing brake steer U-turns. I want an adult sized version of the Swingracer.

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Looking at the assembly instructions leaves me wondering - is the Swingracer configurable in all
these different configurations?

These things are unusual in that they advertise gross instability as a 'fun' feature. This hasn't
happened since the Corvair tried to copy the evil native handling of the 356 Porsche.

Don't encourage these people to build adult versions of these things. They might be ok for
playgrounds or Sunday morning parking lots, but they don't belong where there are cars or
trucks or buses.

Fred Klingener

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Don't encourage these people to build adult versions of these things. They might be ok for
playgrounds or Sunday morning parking lots, but they don't belong where there are cars or trucks
or buses.

And here I was gonna ride it against traffic on the freeway. ;-) Anyway its too late for boring
political correctness. Atomic Zombie already designed one. Lighten up will you? You're making
undertakers resemble giggling schoolgirls.

M.

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"Fred Klingener" skrev

Quoted message said:

Don't encourage these people to build adult versions of these things. They might be ok for
playgrounds or Sunday morning parking lots, but they don't belong where there are cars or trucks
or buses.

And here I was gonna ride it against traffic on the freeway. ;-) Anyway its too late for boring
political correctness. Atomic Zombie already designed one. Lighten up will you? You're making
undertakers resemble giggling schoolgirls.

M.

You been perving at giggling schoolgirls again?

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You been perving at giggling schoolgirls again?

Nope. I prefer women who have actually grown a brain. Anyway theres probably a few sheep in your
closet, you unnatural trikefancier. ;-)

M.

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You been perving at giggling schoolgirls again?

Nope. I prefer women who have actually grown a brain. Anyway theres probably a few sheep in your
closet, you unnatural trikefancier. ;-)

M.

Those sheep are consenting!
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Don't encourage these people to build adult versions of these things.

They

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might be ok for playgrounds or Sunday morning parking lots, but they

don't

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belong where there are cars or trucks or buses.

And here I was gonna ride it against traffic on the freeway. ;-) Anyway its too late for boring
political correctness. Atomic Zombie already designed one. Lighten up will you? You're making
undertakers resemble giggling

schoolgirls.

What? For being against instability? Maybe the undertakers ARE giggling like schoolgirls.

Fred

"Fred Klingener" skrev

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What? For being against instability? Maybe the undertakers ARE giggling like schoolgirls.

Well, dead men tell no tales. 🙂 I'm glad you took it in the spirit it was intended.

Anyway a bike like that swingcycle is not for roaduse. If someone wants to copy Jackass and try it
there all the more power and a richly deserved Darwinaward to them.

Mikael

Ian said:

Those sheep are consenting!

"The sheep have nightmares about you"

- Mr. Smith, The Dear Janes.

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