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Illustration please. Preferably animated. |
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The poles would slow you down - this device needs to be propoled solely by the foot pedals, or the pedal feet if you prefer. |
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And it's no longer a bicycle - a trikeped? Anyway, when the prototype is ready for testing, I'll walk over the other applicants for the honor of being your test pilot (does this job come with health insurance?) |
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I'm Canadian so I was slightly startled by the health insurance question. |
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Oh, yeah, I hear you folks handle that differently than us, your immediate southern neighbors. |
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Well then, this should be fun. I'll inventory my pads and armor. |
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We'll do the first test run in the snow so it will be a soft landing, and any injuries will be automatically iced. |
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Trying to figure out how this is functionally different from
a set of stilts. |
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It's certainly in no way related to a bicycle. |
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Technically all I've done is suggested something along those lines. Although, I did actually lift a bike vertically as described. |
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It's a bit different from a set of stilts because the rear wheel of the bike can be used for stability and as a flywheel. |
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//Trying to figure out how this is functionally different
from a set of stilts.// |
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#1 - walking on stilts is too easy -- any old circus clown
can do that. |
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#2 - try doing it when a BICYCLE is tied to the stilts, in
a manner that specifically impedes the up-and-down
movement of the stilts, and that throws your balance
off too. |
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#3 - stilt'o'cycling. Like stiltwalking ang bicycling, but
harder. |
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I disagree with the appraisals recorded here. I bet the designer of the first bicycle was faced with similar discouragement when the first riders invariably fell over. |
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You will all wish you had medical insurance when this human powered mech crushes your pitifull flesh covered endoskeletons while I laugh maniacally from my perfectly balanced position upon the pedals, [normzone] excluded as he will have already died during testing. |
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Accidental annotation deletion |
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I suppose you're going to say that the deletion of my
annotation about the nun, the pole-vaulter and the
halibut was 'accidental' too? |
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It would be halibut out of habit, so not my vault. |
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