Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: Neil on November 11, 2014, 05:04:06 pm
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Just give me my peddle bike....... and I'll be in Loch Lomond afore yee
https://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/motorhead-uk/lunatic-inventor-creates-bicycle-that-can-destroy-an-f1-car-102652568.html?vp=1
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Pretty obvious that the bike would be faster, given the power to weight ratio of the bike compared to the Ferrari
Brian
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Don't forget the extra thrust from the browntrousered rider %%
Ned
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What's even more amazing is the peddle powered record is 167mph! Legs must be going like pistons! %%
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What's even more amazing is the peddle powered record is 167mph! Legs must be going like pistons! %%
I think they use enormous gear ratios on the pedals and ride in the slipstream behind a fast-moving vehicle. Not quite like my Dad's old Raleigh Trent Tourer with its 3-speed Sturmey Archer twist-grip gears! I reckon I could get it up to 40mph down Clipston hill before I chickened out..... Happy days.
DM
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What a ride! :o
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Pretty obvious that the bike would be faster, given the power to weight ratio of the bike compared to the Ferrari
Brian
must be fun being with you Brian {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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(http://www.whatsupwhatson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Penny-Fathing-2.jpg)
"I say old chap, did I hear correctly that some Frenchy has gone over 200 mph on one of these contraptions?"
Si:)
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(http://www.whatsupwhatson.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Penny-Fathing-2.jpg)
"I say old chap, did I hear correctly that some Frenchy has gone over 200 mph on one of these contraptions?"
Si:)
Now a PF with a jet engine..... that I'd like to see
Having "attempted" to ride one of those when I was a kid I can say that they are not easy
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Did any one see Guy Martin break the speed limit on a bike in his last series .can not remember what it was he slipstreamed a vehicle I think that was a wagon .
David
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I saw the episode where he built a wooden bike, a replica of the first bike called a velocipede I think. I have a lot of time for Guy Martin. He's down to earth bloke gets his hands dirty and on weekends goes very very fast on motorbycles in places like the IOM and Dundrod in Ireland.
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Talking of Guy Martin, did anyone see last's TV where he broke the UK record for the fastest hovercraft ride over a measured distance, ?
Now there's a dangerous pursuit. %%
ken
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The video's been deleted from EUROSPORT unfortunately , only saw it once . . . . :-))
Bill
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must be fun being with you Brian {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-) {-)
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