Jack Halpern wrote:
>The ultimate twowheeler
|> I discussed in a previous posting is something I should do one day, but it’s
|> very difficult and expensive to build…
John Foss wrote:
|> Bull. You already have the parts, just take away the frame above the axle.
|> Put your money where your mouth is! I’m not going to say it can’t be ridden,
|> I just want to watch you try it a few times.
John, I am smart enough to have figured out your suggestion. Believe me, if that
worked I would have been riding that thing years ago. I have basic designs, and
in Japan it costs thousands of dollars to do it. Everything has to be very thin,
you need special axles, etc., to avoid the wobbling you get from ordinary
wheels. If you ever tried riding an ultmate from a standard uni minus frame and
seat, you know what I mean. With twowheelers, the difficulties are much, much
greater with your center of gravity higher up, etc.
If any of you wizzards can think of a design not using spaceage expensive
materials, etc. that is fairly easy and inexpensive to build, I’ll have it built
and, if humanly possible, I’ll “put my mouth where my money is” by riding it. I
must warn you that I am now making three dictionaries simultaneously and have no
time to get into discussions on design issues. But if everyone argues it out and
comes up with a reasonable design, I’ll have it built.
Stay on top,
Jack Halpern IUF Vice President
P.S. John, will you please keep your line shorter (say 70), and get rid of
those pesty return codes. On my screen they look like this ^M (encode as
which is hexadecimal 0D.
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