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by **sogood** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:57 am

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LWLbu1wIIEo

His CoG is probably just 10cm from the ground.

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by **toolonglegs** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:21 am

that is so cool!

by **europa** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 10:51 am

That's the one Mike did recently in:

Forget Bicycles here comes bundgy rolling

One seriously insane pussycat :shock:

I'll stand back and watch thanks :roll:

Richard

by **Bluerider** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:31 pm

I'll second that Richard :shock:

Talk about extreme,very impressed how he handled the speed into corners.

by **sogood** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 12:39 pm

Oops, missed Mike's earlier post.

by **toolonglegs** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:16 pm

I liked the way he set up for the corners,squaring the off like he was on a old TZ750 (showing my age!)....anyne know what col that was...thought i recognised it from somewhere.

by **sogood** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:24 pm

Yeah, lucky there weren't any semi-trailers hauling up the mountain. :shock:

I am still trying to work out where he had wheels and the design of them. Couldn't quite work out how he could go near sideways if they wheels weren't pivoted. I wasn't sure if those screeching sounds on corners came from him or the machine following the daredevil.

by **Bnej** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:14 pm

If you look at some of his other videos, he has 4 wheels back and front to keep his body off the ground, those are on pivots. The hand and feet, and I think knee wheels are fixed.

by **sogood** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 2:40 pm

Bnej wrote:If you look at some of his other videos, he has 4 wheels back and front to keep his body off the ground, those are on pivots. The hand and feet, and I think knee wheels are fixed.

That makes sense. Which means the amount of force on his hands during those turns would be quite considerable.

by **Bnej** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:02 pm

It looks like his wrists are braced, so it would be more on the elbow/shoulder than the weaker wrist/hand joints.

by **sogood** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:09 pm

Bnej wrote:It looks like his wrists are braced, so it would be more on the elbow/shoulder than the weaker wrist/hand joints.

You want to try it coming down the mountain on the Great Western Hwy? :wink:

by **Bnej** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 3:30 pm

Hell no. The road conditions for most of the GWH would be a little "harsh" on those tiny little wheels!

If you could clear the road, then Lapstone hill or Mt Vic pass would probably be the best ones.

Would need some practice first I think.

by **mikesbytes** » Tue Aug 07, 2007 5:19 pm

Definitely a temporary citizen

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