WOW!!!!

[guest27]

Which bit do you mean Rog? If it's about 3min 37 then from memory it's a slight slope he's reversing down so he'll need to turn the pedals backwards to allow the wheel to turn hence the illusion of cycling backwards, everywhere else looks like a freewheel equipped bike, albeit with a magician stood on top of it! 

If that is the bit where he 'wheelies' backwards from a step then yes.

Have to admit to a doh! moment - forgot that to go backwards on a cycle the pedals are turned by the bike - else it stand still.  Was seeing backward rotation and thinking active pedaling rather than letting the bike move - dolt!!!!

R

[guest18]

  I wouldn't worry, we all have DOH! moments.. some of us more than others! 

Further to the "no cylinders" theme... here's one for consideration, is this genius and long overdue, or will it flop and be no use to anyone....
http://mantasaddle.biz/index.php/a-different-feel

I'm undecided... I can see the need, and the design is elegantly simple.... but it is quite radical... hmmm dunno! 

[guest27]

Mmmmmm

Not sure it is nto too wide at the front for 'serious' cycling but looks like it could be good for leasure.  As to being a new concept I was at a conference some 8 years ago and there was a presentation on TRIS, which is a Russian developed design prompting system.  What happened is an engineer who was sent to internal exile was also given pretty close to unlimited resources to investigate every patent application and award ever - from all countries.  They used this to produce a set of profiles on how things develop.  They came up with a set of iterative steps - I wish I had not lent the paper to an engineer who promptly dissapeared - and then use those steps to jump generations of development.  IN this paper there was an example based on bike saddles and had something similar to this as a developed and on sale Russian product, they also identified that the next significant steps after fully articulated (as this is) is liquid and then gaseous.  So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....

R

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.  So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....

R

.....Because its Bloody Frozen Solid !!!!!


Jethro

[guest27]

.  So somewhere there is a poverty striken Russian engineer with a viable liquid bike saddle, and no market in Siberia....

R

.....Because its Bloody Frozen Solid !!!!!


Jethro

 
R

[themoudie]

Aye, could be a Rostof Tech or something else if still in Siberia!