[python] Re: wild idea

> From: Olaf Johansson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 >
> Regarding the pythons potential as a fixie: Imagine the difficulties  
> starting off in a gear high enough to carry you swiftly downhill. 
You could ride a low gear and do what a lot of fixie riders do---ride the 
brakes on down hills.

I've thought about this as I love riding my upright fixie. But I would be wary 
of a python-fixie's downhill potential. Going downhill can get pretty "bumpy" 
on a upright fixie. If you can't move your feet fast enough, your legs will get 
pulled and yanked by the moving pedals. On a python, I would imagine this would 
add a lot of instability, as you steer with your feet.

Additionally, this "pull" between your feet and the pedals slows the wheel 
down, basically creating a braking effect. Doesn't braking with the front wheel 
increase the downhill de-stabilizing issue?


--Timothy Walters Kleinert

----- Original Message ----
From: Olaf Johansson <home@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:56:25 PM
Subject: [python] Re: wild idea  



Hi all,

Regarding the pythons potential as a fixie: Imagine the difficulties  
starting off in a gear high enough to carry you swiftly downhill.

Perhaps for show purposes though. As Dirk says: doing track stands  
and going in reverse.

Saturday we are five unicycling addicts that will defy the cold  
weather and make a 40 km tour on our 36-inch unicycles. This is the  
closest I come to fixed gear cycling at the moment.


Olaf




> From: dirk.bonne@xxxxxxx
> To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:26:37 +0100
>
>
> Me and Olaf,
>
> had been speculating about this. May be it would be possible to do a
> "stand" with the python, or even reverse ;-)
>
> dirk
>
> brian smith wrote:
> > In my youth, 30 years ago, while in my 40's, my only bike had a  
> fixed
> > gear, and a single rim brake on the front. A fixed gear bonds one
 to
> > the bike in an intimate way .........  see these testimonials
> > http://www.sheldonbrown.com/fixed-testimonial.html
> > Doing my daily 10 miles on my actionbent recumbent I wondered if
> > anyone had ever tried a fixed gear on a python. Could it give
 better
> > control ....... especially downhill?
> > Perhaps more of a crazy idea than a wild one ....... any comments  
> will
> > be of interest
> > Regards to all,
> > Brian in SC USA
> >


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