Showing posts with label Learn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learn. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

When The Pedal With Your Hands And Steer With Your Feet


     I came across the website of some freakers in Brittany, France who I wanted to profile. These guys seem to have taken a serious study of the freakbike and come up with designs that I had not considered or seen. When chopping it's important to ask yourself what aspects of the bike are taken for granted and can be altered.



This is a tallbike that you pedal with your hands and steer with your feet. Paintacular! 

Stilt Bike Gives Second-Story Ride

This is interesting to me because there's a half-century gap in my collection of vintage tallbike pictures between 1915 and the 1964 article, which Ray has recently filled with these photos from '40 and '52. Surely there were tallbikes about in those times. There were two world wars and a depression to keep people busy.


Thursday, May 20, 2010

Ridden A Tall Bike

If you’ve ever ridden a tall bike, you can understand the attraction: Finally, for the first time in your bike-riding life, you’re not just traffic, you’re above traffic.
Tall bikes can be used for general transportation and recreation, just like other bicycles. Regular tall-bike commuters note that both their increased visibility and the simple 'wow factor' give them a safety advantage in automobile traffic over 'short bikes'. However, there are issues with mounting and dismounting.

It is much simpler than you might think. On the lower part of the "backbone" there is a small step. The rider stands in back of the bike, with hands holding the handlebar grips, with a foot up on the step and lower pedal to lowest position then push off to gain motion with left foot on left pedal and Pushing forward to get enough momentum to steer and balance, swing right leg over then steps up, puts feet on the pedals, and rides on.


Friday, April 16, 2010

Tall Bike Building


Originated from the concept that tall bike use from wreck of bike and to raft back into a bicycle with two frame so as to appear higher than other bicycle usually, tall bike assembly does not require order or special materials due to the wreck, we are able to make proper use of bicycles on the streets and ready for use with the view that higher than usually, so bicycles will attract of other road users and they eyes saw the number of cyclists who bike related sidelined by a motor vehicle from now. for cycling activities undertaken to minimize fuel use, petroleum energy. Attitude of life is transmitted by Piero (Italian origin) who came along with other bike lovers in Yogyakarta.
Atom (26), which has helped us to create tall bike, with his expertise he has a lot of bikes finish, including BMX, lowrider, etc. and with skills that he had much help in many tall bike manufacture in yogyakarta. in making This tall bike atom typically spent 1 month at a cost of no more than Rp. 300,000 rupiah and you could have a tall bike.