[python] Re: pythoon ride
- From: Dirk Bonné <dirk.bonne@xxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 13:51:37 +0200
Hi Frank,
On 5/4/2010 10:37 AM, Frank Schmaus wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> I think your concept is the safest I've seen on two wheels. A lot
> safer than those upright seats balancing on the back. I just think
> it's boring to look at your back all the time. I just remember myself
> sitting on the handle bar of my fathers bike for years. We also had
> more than 10km to the town and did that every day with the bike. I was
> always sitting in that oldschool seat on the handlebar of my father,
> face to face. I loved that, because I could query questions for hours
> and he had no reason not to answer them in very detail. Anyhow he had
> nothing else to do. Learned more in that 4 years than I did in 10
> years of school :)
That is quite fantastic that you can remember those years - that only
shows how important it was!
In this icy cold winter I was so lucky to be able to create a similar
situation: I rode my alleweder and had my son in my arms. We were
talking all the time. And when he came back from a hard-days-work at the
kindergarten his humor was much much better than in a similar trailer
ride, and I think mainly because of the intimate closeness while riding.
His batteries had the time to refill again - and I admit, not only his
batteries got their re-fill ;-) . I believe it is not only you that
remembered fondly about those 4 years, I might well have been the best
part of the day for your father.
With the pythoon communication is better then in a trailer, but not good
as this. But anyway, next year I expect to build an regular upright
tandem, but adjusted for a child - he will sit in front and me in the
back (I'll still be steering of course)...
>
> That's the only reason why I want somthing with the kids in front. But
> you are right, a huge tadpole trike is not that handy and fast than a
> single track bike is.
>
> The only concern I see with your bike, when thinking about a small
> crash with your son in the back, is the danger of hurting his hands,
> when holding the rail or even trying to hold himself against the fall
> to the side. Maybe a handle inside the box to hold on could help here,
> but on the other side, it is normal to have a little danger, you also
> have that when he'll be on his own bike.
Indeed, some things I can improve on the bike. But in the end, apart
from the bike, he will runs many risks anyway that I do not want to
protect him from. I see him sometimes f.x. crawl onto rocks, where I get
so nervous my toe-nails dig in my shoes but I know I may not interfere -
what a life would that be for him if I did?
> I really love it like it is. Don't kill the concept because of others,
> telling you it isn't safe. That's just because it's unusual. I think
> it's very safe.
Yes thanks for the support! (you too DirkS and others). I can feel of
course some pressure (be it live or on the net), and I am not very thick
skinned, so responses do make me reconsider. But anyway... in the end I
usually make up my own mind, instead of others doing it for me ;-)
Dirk
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