New GADGET....
 

It is very convinient to get balance while stopping on the city cross-roads with this gadget ....
http://www.chas-daily.com/win/forum/...542/shpori.JPG

OMFG :eek: I guess if you were riding on rattrap pedals and didn't care about your safety. I can just see it now, your foot slips off the pedal as your riding, the 'thing' drops down, hits the ground and tosses you into the curb. No thanks, I think I'll depend on putting my foot on the ground, since it will have to be of the pedal anyhow for that abortion of an idea to work.

Steve
Who isn't much impressed by that

ABsolutely NO....
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When pedal is free - then "thing" freely ROLLING on the ground....:))) ANd have no any influence on sliding a foot...
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More of all - EVERYTHIG I'm writing here about - is EPXPERIMENTALLY TESTED.......

So any theoretical "...may be..." or "...can be..." useless....

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THIS thing work... ANd work WELL .....

It shows some real "out of the box" thinking, that's for sure. I would rather see it with some sort of counter-weight on the opposite side of the pedal. That way, if your foot slipped off the pedal, it wouldn't hit the ground, possibly throwing your bike in the other direction.

I think I'll stick with trackstands.

Good job on the innovation.

It would be good if you could describe how it works to obtain balance? And what the little plates near the wheel is for? How about some photos of it in action?

If the foot slips, the little wheel rotates when it strikes the ground and the arm continues to trail the pedal. Don't think it's too likely to cause a spill like a kickstand could. But it is a lot of extra weight. Maybe with some refinement that design could be used to benefit in cornering or on ice as well.

Maybe it have some merit in commuter biking.

Show us the trackstand training wheel video! :p

It's an interesting solution. Is it a solution to a real problem though? I guess if someone had some serious balance issues, but would those folks be riding a bike in the first place?

I applaud the spirit, but in order to use it, it seems like you have to take your foot off the pedal anyhow. So you might as well just put a foot down.

.....So you might as well just put a foot down.....
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No.. You can't.. That's the point !!... Normally foot DON'T REACH a ground FULLY to catch a stright balance...

(just, may be FINGERS.... )

it's pretty funny though!

I don't really get it.

For the wheel to touch the ground, the pedal needs to be perpendicular to the ground or very toe up / heel down. Since ankles don't flex that way, your foot needs to be off the pedal (e.g. the top/right photo). But since it's fixed to the pedal, if the wheel on the gadget is touching the ground and the bike starts to fall, the pedal will just start to straighten and the gadget would straighten with it, so the bike will fall over just like it would without said gadget.

What problem is it solving? What am I missing?

Isn't an Electra Townie a much simpler solution for those with questionable balance who insist on having their feet flat on the ground?

Won't the crank just turn backwards when any force is transmitted by the GADGET?

Or is it for fixed-gear bikes only?


Trying new ideas, good for you!

...but this one doesn't actually WORK, does it?

if you need to use such a device, you shouldnt be on a bike...

Yeah, that was a rhetorical question. Don't you know what a rhetorical question is?

Hint: The last one was a rhetorical question also.

video?

You can, and it reaches enough. All you really need is your toes on the ground to prop you up not some geeky training wheel.
Try using this next time
http://img203.exs.cx/img203/91/arrow...ywquote6it.jpg

Raiyn, why don't you just say it already? It's a non-function solution to a problem that doesn't exist. He can make millions if he just gets that government contract...

Why not just buy plain old training wheels then your feet never have to touch the ground, their cheaper and less complicated.

I'm pretty sure he built this so that he could put it down just while he's sitting still.