[python] [python]Eureka!
- From: Rhisiart Gwilym <Rhisiart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 22:42:09 +0100
Cracked it at last!
Thanks Dirk for putting me on to Erik Wannee's training-trike
back-end for Flovos and Pythons. That was the key!
I built a version of Erik's idea over the past couple of weeks, and
put it on to the front part of my original Python bike yesterday
evening, even though the new trike back-end wasn't quite finished.
The result? Eureka!
Instant fluent riding! I love it!
The bike-format Python, which I built first, has been dumping me off
every few metres with remorseless regularity for months. It's true
what they say: Your sense of balance must deteriorate with age. I
just couldn't get it.
But now, in just two evenings, everything's transformed. I finished
putting the final bracing tubes on the trike back-end today, and went
for another ride this evening. Even better than yesterday. Already I
can lift my hands briefly from the bracing bars on the back-end, and
keep the front-end balanced and steered with more certainty. The new
balancing reflexes that I have to learn for the Python are coming
quickly. I seem to remember Erik saying that a week with the training
trike should get a new rider ready to try the bike format with more
confidence.
Interestingly, having those bracing bars on the non-leaning back end
also allows you to forget about having a steerable handle-bar in
front of the articulation hinge, and trying to steer with that. My
front-end now is a pure Python, steered only by foot, leg and hip
movements, and by balance. And yes, it does feel much more right and
easy. It also feels, as Erik says, just like riding a bike. The
leaning into curves, and the deft counter-balancing are
indistinguishable on either the Bithon or the Trithon.
I've been chasing this breakthrough for months. Thanks again Dirk.
Thanks Jurgen for pioneering the whole beautiful idea: no mean feat
of original engineering. And thanks to all listees for the stream of
pictures, videos and key descriptive details. I know that I'd never
have understood so much, and got this far, and actually be riding a
home-built Python, without standing on the shoulders of the
pathfinders. Thanks again to the band of Pythonauts. I love this bike!
Hwyl fawr iawn iawn, Rhisiart Gwilym
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