Brian Finnegan's Bicycle

Irish Flute
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http://www.americanbamboo.org/GeneralInfoPages/BambooBicycle.html

I believe the handle bar plays in Bb

:laughing:

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I like it!

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Brakes?.. :astonished:

:slight_smile: David

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Fixed gear.

jb

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Someone needs to email this link to Luka Bloom. Its the Accoustic Motorbike! Come on, get up on on yer bike, pedal on, pedal on, pedal on, pedal onā€¦

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So itā€™s not going to speed up whenever it is ridden down hill?

David

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Not if you apply the brakes, which is done by applying the pedals backward. Fixed-gear system pedals donā€™t spin backward freely. Instead, that is the brake function.

Man, am I showing my years. When I was a pup, somebody came up with the 3-speed bicycle and we though that was the stuff.

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Hey all;

I keep shuddering at the idea of splintersā€¦ :astonished: ā€¦ No off-roading on that one for sure.

But stillā€¦ can you buy one? I would.

Mark

(note how excellently I reprained from the obvious but taxonomically incorrect pun, ā€˜I woodā€™.)

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I dunno, get the company to hire the professor from Gilliganā€™s Island, Iā€™m sure he can come up with a design for Bamboo Shocks :laughing:

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thanks for explaining Nano! :slight_smile:

David

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Loren wrote:

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I dunno, get the company to hire the professor from Gilliganā€™s Island, Iā€™m sure he can come up with a design for Bamboo Shocks :laughing:[/quote]

Yea, they could be coconut-milk compression with shell-dialling pressure heads. Maybe some kind of damper/compensation system built out of the excess fat of the Captain. (Fatties, maybe?) :astonished:

Thurston Howell III could back the company (to the tune of ā€œIā€™m cookoo for kokonutsā€). Gilliganā€™s shiny, dessicated skull could be mounted on the front forks to ward off all those that ā€˜just want to touch it.ā€™

Or, maybe not. :smiley:

Mark