[python] Re: report: pythoon first ride
- From: Dirk Bonné <dirk.bonne@xxxxxxx>
- To: python@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:16:20 +0200
Hi Rhisiart,
congratiolations with your bike! Have fun learning to ride it!
about the name pythoon: your guess is as good as mine. :)
Dirk
Rhisiart Gwilym wrote:
> Siwmae Dirk!
>
> Why 'Pythoon' Dirk? Because the second 'o' makes it longer than the
> original word, and your new bike is longer than a normal Python bike?
>
> BTW, I'm really envious of the way you can sit on your new bike and
> just ride away without falling, and with your boy on board too! What
> confidence. My first Python -- at long last! -- is now at the stage
> where I can sit on it and coast gently down the short, grassy slope
> just by my workshop. But I still lose balance and fall off very easily
> too often. Fortunately (?) we've had quite a drought here lately, so
> at least I don't get wet every time that I fall.
>
> As you said -- and demonstrated -- in that short video where you were
> being interviewed a year or so back about your previous Python, the
> self-centring effect is very pronounced on my bike too the moment I
> sit my weight on it (pivot angle currently about 65 degrees, though
> I've designed a small amount of adjustability into it). The bike is
> quite wheel-floppy without the rider's weight, of course; now I begin
> to see the essential nature of Jurgen's bike stand: stops the
> wheel-flop completely. I've had to improvise a wooden block to jam the
> steering joint in the centred position, just to be able to push the
> bike along when I'm not sitting on it. As you'll see when I post
> pictures, there's some extra tubing on the front part of my variant of
> the Absolute Platonic Ideal Python, designed-in to take a very light,
> minimal rain-deflector fairing eventually (something similar to
> Wolfgang Bion's 'Die Nase' I think), when I've become fluent enough at
> the initial bare-bike riding. So that makes for a bit of extra
> wheel-flop tendency. Essential extra item though if this is to be a
> year-round all-weather bike in our climate. And that's my intention.
>
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