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Here's my new beauty... just needs a paint job! Two bottom brackets and their heaviest struts make up the rear triangle (the silver and the red), with 2 plates of steel welded onto the bottom where the rear wheel slots in.
Caliper brakes on the front with a coaster (back-pedal) hub brake on the back. The Wangaratta tip is giving bikes away! Just the thing to while away the hours in a sleepy country town.
Ha ha, looking pretty nervous actually, on the first trial run... do i look fat on this?
http://static.flickr.com/59/198042700_6dd8b1ce93_o.jpg
Love to hear from anyone else who's made a "taller than thou" bike, or anyone with interesting highrise pictures.
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if it doesn't have wheels, it's broken.

If I saw you riding that I'd be too tempted by trying to go under you I couldn't resist. Definite props.

That thing is amazing!
I don't have a tall bike, but I'll try to snap some pictures of the current MC3 rigs around Vancouver next event.

ha ha! little dogs do it all the time. did you mean under on a bike or just do a runner through there?

you're not seeing double, the bike below is Skylab. Onlookers tend to call him The Scissor Bike, and ask if the two "blades" move in and out scissor-fashion while riding. sky lab is also in line for a paint job.

http://static.flickr.com/78/198432421_aed0ce3471_b.jpg

question for ya...


(Im sure you get asked this...every day but...) How the heck do you get on it? :D

It would probably be considered wussy but that thing is so big you'd have enough room to weld a latter on the side, just make swinging stump legs on the bottom so it doesnt scrap the ground when leaning one way.. plus it could act as a kick stand!

suchlike?

http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?ei=UTF-8&p=fromsite%3Awww.tallbike.net&b=0&oid=b8b778303c0d17ce&rurl=www.tallbike.net&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fsearch%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3Dfromsite%253Awww.tallbike.net&vback=Results

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hi565:
question for ya...
(Im sure you get asked this...every day but...) How the heck do you get on it? :D
yes... that question is the bane of my life...
however, interestingly enough the answer for this particular bike is a little different.

you can see in the picture there is a dinky-peg stuck though the silver bottom bracket above the back wheel. this can be reached from the ground with the inside foot without too much difficulty.

also on the steering column at about ankle height (my ankle, that is) you can see a silver handle - it's basically the same as the one in the photo of skylab. standing on solid earth, the handlebars are up in the blue yonder, so this handle is used to steer until you're high enough to reach the main cockpit controls.

this is where it gets messy: the next step - up onto the pedal - is, shall we say, delightfully oversized.
this neccessitates some crowd-pleasing monkey-style mid-flight shimmy up to third-floor-womenswear, followed by a quick check to make sure all your bits came with you.

getting down involves a gravity-assisted "pole-hug & slide" manouver which is easy if you have time and space, and most entertaining if you don't.

the mounting / dinking peg is just sitting in place, and not welded, so you can't rely on its still being there when you're ready to dismount. (square tubing's lack of foresight is well-known)

in summary: this bike needs more steps, which it will get as soon as we work out where to put them... don't really fancy a top-peg in the ribs or the hip or even the shin while i'm on the bottom peg kicking off. also don't know whether to add one peg and kick off with the inside foot, or add two pegs and keep the inside foot on the lowest one.

"normal" double-bike-height tallbikes kick off with the inside foot (outside foot on the pedal), so it should be manageable. (:s ??)
starting off facing downhill makes all the difference: with a firm downhill kick-a-long even the shimmy becomes a thing of beauty.

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Cool! :D

Ah, very interesting method of overcoming the wibble-wobble effect of tallchoppers. The one I rode around Brooklyn with the BLBC NY was that tall but it just had a monotube fork and it felt like riding on top of a giant rubber band. I think you have invented an illusory chopper fork.

Here's a short clip of my trip-high mount. This was my commuter in Chicago for about a year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ehR_0Bl_w8

It was built back during the Height Wars of '03 against the Scallywags:

http://rat-patrol.org/Tallbikes/Littlejohn.jpg

Back then, of course, the Chicago scene was pretty primitive and we were terrified of the height and therefore fixated on solid construction. Nowadays people have gotten more relaxed:

http://www.rat-patrol.org/rides/04ratride27.jpg

http://www.chicagofreakbike.org/pornosquad/largemarge.jpg

For years the Guiness Tallest Bike was the 11'6'' Frankencycle. The BLBC's "World's Tallest Bike" was twelve foot six:

http://scallywagsbikeclub.com/archives/images/2002/mayday/mayday_worldstallest.JPG

Strange is considered to be the inventor of "bridge rash".

Atomic Zombie got in the book ten years later with Skycycle, 14'3" (which he just slapped an extra four feet on to beat the record)

http://atomiczombie.com/gallery/bradgraham/skycycle.jpg

There's really no point to this escalation. These are museum pieces that ride once or twice a year. I always say I'm more interested in the World's Most Ridden Tallbike. Besides, the World's Tallest Unicycle is over 100 feet tall!

Lu of tallbike.net (R.I.P.) built a 17-footer, but then Terry & those Winnepeg Wags went and built Closer My God To Thee at 18 foot something:

http://atomiczombie.com/gallery/terrygoertzen/closer.jpg

I'm particularly fond of his application of the Skywalker technology:

http://atomiczombie.com/gallery/terrygoertzen/tallbike.jpg