h a l f b a k e r yIt might be better to just get another gerbil.
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I think it will generally run just fine on a level surface but has a chance of biting into curbs, twigs or other small discontinuities. |
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Also good luck pulling a wheelie. |
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What?...
Nothing about steering? |
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It should work fine over curbs and such, maybe a few jolts. |
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//as split wheels been done, not very original.// |
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Original to me at the time... |
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Not that it matters but the concept is just an extension of my Woibles posting. |
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The hb version I commented on years before that. |
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Not to be an asshole, but who appointed you to be concept Nazi? |
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By tradition, that noble role is assigned by connecting a Round Robin to Buggins' Turn with a worm gear. |
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A vigorous crank is then applied. |
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I've figured out how to enable wheelies.
There's like cables and springs and pulleys and such but... it can wheelie now in my head. |
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Probably the only place it can wheelie...
...but wheelie it does. |
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Well there you go, I didn't even come across either of those in my search. |
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Besides, I can't have only original thoughts or the Spanish Inquisitors will come and get me. |
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Perhaps two of these bicycles side-by-side, for a total of 8 semi-circular "legs" more resembling a horse body-plan? A crankshaft would be required. |
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Yes, the design I proposed would not be able to steer at all. |
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Heh. Crankshafts? We don need no steenkin crankshafts.
[link] |
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//Yes, the design I proposed would not be able to steer at all. // |
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Since all the half-wheels are inline can't you just... lean a little bit to one side?
Maybe not enormously novice-friendly. |
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I don't think so. When I run the scenario of actually riding it in my head, either trying to use the handlebars to actually turn each front-tire segment flips me off in the opposite direction or I lean and it continues to track in a straight line and I tip over because the front tire has been stretched out by four times it's intended contact point and handles more like a tank tread. |
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In [a1]'s second link you can see what happens even just trying to double the front wheels' footprint. |
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Woops. 1st [link] 5:00 mark. (in my own defence it was tagged Version 2 and I dyslexically logged it as such) |
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