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Offline aircap

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Steam punk propster
« on: January 31, 2013, 12:28:44 AM »
View this, and be amazed....

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Offline wobblywalrus

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 12:50:21 AM »
Did it work?
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« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2013, 09:36:28 AM »
Very clever, this one. 

I take it the driver lost his hat in a windstorm?
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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2013, 09:44:29 AM »
Apirl 1914 issue (I believe Jon had a subscription at that time)  :-D

http://www.roadsideresort.com/blog/the-future-of-travel-revealed-the-ginormous-wheel

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Offline Dean Los Angeles

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2013, 10:58:00 AM »
You gotta love monocycles. V8 complete with crash at 2:55
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YmVP6i4qw
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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2013, 11:03:30 AM »
This has the balast needed...

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2013, 11:57:12 AM »
Did you notice on the "monowheel" vid that the guy had all of the best safety gear on. Genuine chopper gun replica of a WWII German helmet (Legal in California) , Levis, and of course a sleeveless sweat shirt, this ensures that when he crashes he will have enough scabs on his arms for scab sandwiches for a month!! I also now know why he has to have the double thick sole "kick a$$" boots as he is dragging them on the ground almost all the time. And he keeps building them!! That is passion.

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2013, 03:54:15 PM »
That was Kerry McLean.  I sat in one of his "bikes" at World of Speed a few years ago when he appeared there.  I think I got in the mid-size motored one (what was it - a four, maybe?), but he had a single cylinder and a V8 (maybe a V6) there, too.  If you think it looks "unusual from this video -- try sitting in one.  No, I didn't "ride it -- Nancy wasn't all that much in favor of me doing that.
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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2013, 04:01:34 PM »
Now this is a monowheel...

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Offline John Burk

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #9 on: January 31, 2013, 05:31:40 PM »
Think I figured out the "stability" of monowheels . Acceleration or overcoming drag puts the CG ahead of center which is like positive caster . Decelaration is unstabile and the rider needs to slide his feet .
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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #10 on: January 31, 2013, 08:10:01 PM »
And if he gets on the "brakes" too hard the hole thing including the rider start to do the wheel thing. rollin, rollin, rollin, keep them Doggies rollin, roll ooonnn...RAW HIDE  :-D
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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2013, 10:01:40 AM »
Speaking of the persona non grata mentioned in the thread title, I see he surfaced at Bangshift and dredged up all his old topics from here before a thourough banning. Aspergers syndrome perhaps?
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Offline John Noonan

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Re: Steam punk propster
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2013, 11:20:06 AM »
Quote from: Tman on February 01, 2013, 10:01:40 AM
Speaking of the persona non grata mentioned in the thread title, I see he surfaced at Bangshift and dredged up all his old topics from here before a thourough banning. Aspergers syndrome perhaps?

He has been sending me messages on FB so I was very civil with him and then he got bent outta shape when I said no rider parachutes for open bike riders..then is turned back in to an azz clown.. :roll:
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