[python] Re: python hatched!

Congratulations! I hope I will see you tonight at Leitra's so I can steal
the secrets :-) (I wont be on my Phyton, though - I'm not ready for a
nightly 40km+ trip yet.) 

Cheers,
Torben
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Bonne <dirk_bonne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 22:37:50 +0100
Subject: [python] python hatched!

> I just did my first ride on my new bicycle :-))))
> 
>       *** It rides like a dream! ***
> 
> My second ride was the ride home, from one part of the town to another 
> (for the Copenhagen-experts under us: Nørrebrogade, from Nørrebro to 
> inner center). And yes, I turned where I had to turn and straight where
> I had to go straignt!
> 
> To prevent people fainting by reading this, I confess:f I am a 
> experienced flevo rider.
> 
> As a first impression. At normal city speed (zero -> 20km/h with lots
> of 
> red lights), the bike felt very very stable. I had no starting problems
> at the crossings! (crossings are most difficult because of tensing up 
> under the stress).
> 
> In fact it felt nearly the same as my flevo, a touch better even...
> 
> In my case, I believe, setting the negative trail to 140mm (instead of 
> 300mm) was a lucky move. The "self centering effect" is not so strong
> as 
> on a normal python, which makes the bike listen better to my legs. I 
> tried a 26" python before and I had trouble to ride it. It felt like
> the 
> bike wanted to go straight out, even when I didn't want it to. I did 
> believe I would be able to master it after some time, but the python 
> variant that is drying in the cellar, isn't like that at all. I feels 
> much more like my own flevo bicycle.
> 
> It is not all nice though: I see I will have to do the U profile of 
> pivot again. The way I decided to do it is impossible to do away the 
> tolerance between the holes in the U profile and the axle.. But I hope 
> to have the time to solve this tomorrow.
> 
> And eeek! I need fenders. It is horrible riding up wind in the rain.
> 
> Dirk
> 
> 


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