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I just got back from a nostalgic re-run of my old commute (when I used to work in Dunfermline) on the latest demo from Laid Back Bikes...
Not only did I smash my previous record for getting to that office (averaging 18.5mph up from 17.9mph), I then turned about and rode the return leg at 17.5mph (previously would have been a strong second-best)!
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The wheels are mine, but sub-20mph I'm not sure they offer much more than eye candy ;-)
According to the NMS, records set on recumbents don't count!
One of the annoying things I found about the new museum set up is the random mounting of things either very high or low on the wall, where you can't get a proper look at them (and where the strip lights invade the photo)
Dave that looks like quite an upright recumbent [from the photo] - stats speak for themselves.
Kapps - is there any indication of the age of the one in the roof, is it early prototype? Must get up there once the schools go back and it is nice and quiet, is the main hall still soothing for hangovers? I spent many sunday afternoons in there 1987-89 watching the fish swim into the pipe then out again, there was a big brown one that was a favourite of mine.
As Kaputnik already identified (on Flickr), it's a Vélo-Vélocar, and le constructeur was Charles Mochet.
There's an article in issue 33 of Velovision in which Bob Cordon Champ, complete with white handlebar moustache, talks about the history of the V.V. and the later Etablissements Vélorizontal bikes.
Some of the bikes had twin front chainrings and a 3-speed mid-drive, later ones had a 4-speed dérailleur at the rear wheel. And some of the Vélorizontal bikes were single speed but in all the pictures I've seen of them the rear wheel was larger (600A or something) to help the gearing.
On another string here and on flickr there is a John Player's cigarette card with a drawing of a horizontal bicycle - 1935. Admired the excellent front lamp in the drawing too.
Morningsider, is it anything like this?
Hmm, I have not done that right, anyway it is a nice de-fuser from cyclingmollie in the most recent
h@@£$%ts string. As ever too much opinion creeping into the data.
@gembo - because of the silly, patronising nature of the digital system with the exhibit details, you don't actually get to find out. It tells you about velo-velocars in general, but not about this particular one.
Also, for whatever reason, above silly system has the controls inverted as if it is a first-person shooter game and you have to press the up arrow to move it down and the right arrow to move it left and so on.
The lesser known fourth Goonie by kaputniq, on Flickr
It also tells you about these pacing quadruplets in general, but doesn't say who made this one and when it was from. Not that I could find anyway...
All four saddles are Brooks Champion B17. They didn't look used and I suspect they are not original.
Cornering might be tricky, is that a bigger chainring on the back?
yes all the timing chains are on smaller rings, with the last one stepping up the gearing. It is also fixed.
Just to remind people that the NMS will host some bikes at this event in September at East Fortune. They will be at lower ground level...
More to come soon.
http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_museums/museum_of_flight/whats_on/magnificent_machines.aspx
Doesn't look as bad as Glasgow's Riverside "Museum". The bikes are hanging from a chandelier where you can't see them and half of them are upside down.
Most of the cars are on the wall so you can see the suspension.
It suffers from similar computer displays instead of a simple card.
Apple inverted the scrolling behaviour on the release of OS X Lion last month. It now matches the iPhone and iPad. The page now moves the same way as your finger on the trackpad/MagicMouse. The "thumb" disappears when I use the MagicMouse but not on my early 2008 MacBook's track pad.
The memsahib hates it so I put hers back to the way it's been since 1984.
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