[python] Re: newborn

Hallo Tobias,
this reminds me of my own first Python experiments five years ago: No idea of welding or framebuilding, of course no jig and nothing but a heap of scrap that I found in our workshop. I made every mistake that could be made but kept on, until I had something rideable. The attached picture shows the very first version that could stand on its own wheels, but still lacked the seat. Hard to believe what emerged from these clumsy trials ...
Hoping to encourage some list-members to start their own building. Whatever comes out - it will be worth the effort. 

Cheers,
Jürgen.


On 08.10.2007 18:06, Tobias Gommel wrote:

hello pythonauts,
thank you for your encouraging and friendly welcomes.
no,the tire is a "3g-20g" -slick. i like to use it reinforced with a
rubber-band on the backwheels of my choppers i ride here and on
santiago, cap verde whenever there visiting my wife. no problems in the
rain and running completely silent. to all those of you who are curious about the development of the 
newborn: patience, please. i will be away and there are lots of details
to be thought about. and now i am afraid not only to be a slow thinker
but a master-bungler, too and happily botching away, doing it wrong
'till i do it right. no cad, no jig please and the measurements will be
taken later. yet i am beginning to wonder if this attitude in
combination with the wish to build a ridable python has much of a
future? we'll see.  truth is, i admire the technology-cracks amongst all
those pythonauts out there , honestly, this my attitude is only ignorant
self-protection. i may be an engineer but i don't know yet how to reduce
the data of a foto i put into the net, but i hope i will find out, hold
on!
then, there are many others who seem to do it the way i do it, too. i
tend to think it is the harder one, but as i said before, i love it. and
so it is good to know that my monster-baby-py is not alone but in good
and even better, much more sophisticated company, thanks to you all. let's keep on bending, brazing, visionating, 
cheers to you,tobi
and thank you, jürgen mages, for the effort keeping this wonderful thing
up!

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