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08-09-07, 10:49 AM

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Thanks for the link! Perhaps it's just the slightly demented look in that lad's eyes--but that really doesn't look at all safe

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...I went to check out the "demented look", and now that I think about it, I suspect it's more a look of embarassment, as it appears he made the propeller shaft too short and had to mount his fork backwards.
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08-10-07, 07:27 PM

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I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to try to draft behind any air bike.

08-10-07, 08:29 PM

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I don't know a link to that particular bike, but the basic concept is very old, and has been done many many times:
https://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/...novel-bicycle/
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"Propeller driven bicycle, Popular Science 1936 and surely coming soon to a Critical Mass ride"

Anyone have any idea how I can figure out what size/kind of propeller would work well in that application?

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08-11-07, 02:03 AM

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Could be...

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08-12-07, 08:20 PM

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https://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/...novel-bicycle/
Does anyone else think the prop in that photo looks like it was pasted in from another photo? Both the color/tone and the angle of attachment look odd.