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[old_coyote_pedaller]

See, if you hadn't written that I wouldn't now be wondering what you've been drinking or smoking.

 

[Jamiedyer]

Just a long day at work I suppose
No drink, no smoke, just dinner and a cuppa

You go back and read it in that Riddler type voice from the 70's Batman show with Adam West
Now smile
Jamie

 

[epicyclo]

velo, could you answer me this, even with 4" tyres on the 16" wheels, won't there be a reduction in rolling diameter of wheels and therefore a lower BB height which could lead to a pedal/ground clearance problem?

I've just worked out Velo's cunning plan to outretrotech me.

That's not a "problem" - it's an auxiliary intermittent direct ground propulsion drive. It will lift those tiny wheels out of the bogholes they'll fall into, and with metal spikes on the bottom of the pedals, it will be the best performing bike on the ice at the 'Puffer. Leading teams will be queuing up to borrow it.

Mmm, I'm going to have to up the technology of my project. That's it, I'll use some of those new matic tyres

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

It must have been a repeat in the '70's because I saw it in the '60's, but it wasn't my cup of tea.
Even then it seemed more than a wee bit camp. And Frank Gorshin was a weirdo, creeped me out.

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

velo, could you answer me this, even with 4" tyres on the 16" wheels, won't there be a reduction in rolling diameter of wheels and therefore a lower BB height which could lead to a pedal/ground clearance problem?

I've just worked out Velo's cunning plan to outretrotech me.

That's not a "problem" - it's an auxiliary intermittent direct ground propulsion drive. It will lift those tiny wheels out of the bogholes they'll fall into, and with metal spikes on the bottom of the pedals, it will be the best performing bike on the ice at the 'Puffer. Leading teams will be queuing up to borrow it.

Mmm, I'm going to have to up the technology of my project. That's it, I'll use some of those new matic tyres

Ah, I think you've got something there. Bolt crampons to underside of pedals, fit smaller wheels, in fact throw them to feck, and you could run the bike round the course. :roll:

Hmmm,

SPD crampons.


Now, where's that patent application form?

 

[Jamiedyer]

epicyclo: How retro can you boys go? or should that be regressive?
OCP: They would have been reruns as it was early seventies, I dont remember much of the sixties
Camp, in hindsight, yes, creepy, definately.
Did you read that first line with that voice?

Jamie

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

All I can remember of the '60's is playing rugby for 6 years at High School.

And nope, don't want Gorshin's voice inside my head. :shock:

 

[Jamiedyer]

All I remember of the 60's was breasts, drinking and lazing around sleeping!

Jamie

 

[Jamiedyer]

...............because I was just a baby being breastfed in the sixties

Jamie

 

[old_coyote_pedaller]

...............because I was just a baby being breastfed in the sixties

Jamie

Jeez, you can remember that, what age did yer mum stop breast-feeding you?