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Humor -- stories, links, etc -- may not be right for kids to read! => THE place for (what you think is) funny stuff. => Topic started by: 4-barrel Mike on March 23, 2011, 08:57:11 PM
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...using two Bosch battery-powered drills??? Faster than 18 mph?? :cheers:
(http://images.thecarconnection.com/med/nils-ferber-ex-electric-drill-powered-trike_100344256_m.jpg)
(http://images.thecarconnection.com/med/nils-ferber-ex-electric-drill-powered-trike_100344254_m.jpg)
Screw Gas, Drive A Drill-Powered Electric Suicide Trike
We're all familiar with alternative lifestyles, but the EX electric tricycle looks like an attempt at an alternative deathstyle. Concocted in the mind of Nils Ferber and realized with the aid of a pair of Bosch drill/drivers, this is an EV for the motorist with a Rube Goldberg fetish and a death wish.
Even the description of how to drive the vehicle is frightening: "The driver controls the vehicle with brake and gas handles and by tilting the back wheel with its body." It tilts the back wheel to turn the EV. It puts the lotion in the basket.
Other key features extolled by Nils Ferber: "The headlong position gives you an exiting [sic] driving experience," and "Steering with the spine-shaped joint is very different from holding a steering wheel or handle bar. You have to use your whole body to lift and bend the vehicle." The icing on the cake is the aesthetic description: "A skeleton with its organs was the inspiration for this design."
Unfortunately, the screwdriver powertrain is only good for 18 mph--though even that marginal amount of speed is sure to feel fast given the layout, proximity to the ground, and spindly construction.
Anyone willing to be the skinsuit for this murder machine?
http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1057026_screw-gas-drive-a-drill-powered-electric-suicide-trike (http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1057026_screw-gas-drive-a-drill-powered-electric-suicide-trike)
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Stick 4 more drill motors on and it's a pit bike. Good for at least 50 mph???
Some decent thinking went into this. I for one would want an empty stomach to ride it, don't do very well with head below or even with belly. How the heck do old people get off?
Bob
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Slowly and carefully! :-D
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I was thinking the right answer would be something like "With anyone that'll do the deed with them".
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"A skeleton with its organs was the inspiration for this design."
It's the organ near the pivot that concerns me! :-o
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Exiting while driving does sound exciting.
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I got a charley horse just reading the article.
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Say " watt??".....It would probably "chuck" me off...........what do you mean I`m on the wrong "thread"??....How re-"volt"ing :cheers:
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Sure be nice when the weather gets nice enough that we can get out again, right Floydjer? :evil: :evil: :cheers:
Pete
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When does that happen?
Bob
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Oh sure Pete,....Put the screws to me................ :wink: :cheers:
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Cool idea!
I don't like the configuration for a couple of reasons... 1) I'm not limber enough to climb on and off the thing, and 2) To ride it on the street you would have to have tail lights mounted to your derrier. I think a "sit on" , or "sit in" configuration would be nice though... just the thing to run down the street to the Kwiki Mart.
I could never get the batteries in my Bosch to last very long... need to think up better batteries.
Smitty :cheers:
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It all sounds "Boring" to me , if ya know what I mean.
Sid.
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What about 110V and a zero to 100 foot ET & mph. :-D I have a 100 foot extension cord already! :cheers:
Sort of like the circular saw drags? :?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nqW8gjXG-E
Or just lose the extension cords?
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/09/dragster-powered-by-circular-saws-wins-race.php
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It all sounds "Boring" to me , if ya know what I mean.
Sid.
I don`t know what "triggered" that......I`ll just "motor' away and "brush" that off...... :cheers:JB