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Birdy: 15 second fold
http://www.kinetics.org.uk/assets/mu.../birdfold.mpeg |
Nice idea for a thread... Kudos!
This is a bit tenuous (as you can't see the bike) - but this is me going down the hill from my house on the way to work last year with my Ixus clamped to the bars of my Twenty using my trusty Manfrotto clamp. Getting about 32mph there - my best (pre-fixie) was 39 but that was plain scary! I want to see a timelapse of a build from bits to completed bike :) |
@LittlePixel
Nice vid. 32mph - spin faster, man! You ride close to parked cars - right in the "door corridor"; I would try and give stationary vehicles a wider berth. Sorry for critiquing your road positioning and sounding like a bike-safety pedagogue, but, believe me, a "dooring" is something best avoided... |
Hey James - good thread - I learned more from these vids than most places, and the camera is impartial and doesn't lie :) ... THANKYOU ...
Hey Pixel - very nice vid !!! ... I agree, you do ride damn close !! scares me !! ... I'd go road centre when really hacking it - just to improve viz (unless next to a Q ... then up outside if stationary, or inside if not...... scary when stationary Q moves tho :) ) BTW how did you get such a smoooth video ? did you have image stabilisation ? .... Even on my fully suspended MTB the bars would be moving up and down more than that.... I know you have damn fine front suspension on that 20 .... but hey ???? |
Dahon on google video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...=dahon+bicycle |
This thread is great. Very helpful for understanding the different folding mechanisms. I was considering getting a mobiky, but I might get a strida instead now.
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@ Fear & Trembling & Simple Simon. I think it seemed closer than maybe it actually is for a few reasons; the camera was clamped on the left hand bar so has a little bias; It's at bar height not head height so the cars seem parallel rather than below, and the wide angle was 'zoomed.
I will admit I do ride *fairly* close (probably just over a foot from the kerb and maybe 2 feet from parked cars - but I have also have 4400 time-slowing ability and have not yet had a close 'dooring' incident. I've seen some in the making but so far got out of the way in time. My girlfriend rides further out and it's all about what you're comfortable with but to be honest I don't like being out that far and would far prefer to be on guard for the occasional 'door opening possibilty' than the constant stress of having impatient Londoners revving to get past. I also don't think it promotes great driver/rider relations being 'in their way' as they would see it. I ride a lot of roads with bus-lanes and I go centre lane a lot then so I'm not a total nihlist. I'll probably change my tune when the big door happens tho :) As for the footage - no special damping (other than those £10 forks). The clamp is quite heavy and just clamps like a gripping hand to any tube. It's not so great but it's watchable. Someone should build a mini-steadycam for bikes. They would rock! |
Originally Posted by LittlePixel
Getting about 32mph there - my best (pre-fixie) was 39 but that was plain scary!
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Another Swift video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cl4_eZ5g0 Interview with Peter about the history and several minutes talking about all you fixed gear fanatics who've driven a new nitch business! |
Originally Posted by flea
Another Swift video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cl4_eZ5g0 Interview with Peter about the history and several minutes talking about all you fixed gear fanatics who've driven a new nitch business! |
Originally Posted by Nachoman
Of course it was scary, you're riding on the wrong side of the road! :p
I want to see a video of someone folding their Twenty - perhaps their could be a contest for the fastest folding of the dreadful fold! |
Here's a good strida video that isn't an advertisement:
http://www.bright.nl/uitpakparty-strida |
Originally Posted by flea
Another Swift video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cl4_eZ5g0 Interview with Peter about the history and several minutes talking about all you fixed gear fanatics who've driven a new nitch business! |
Another Bike Friday - the infamous "tikit":
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...645414&q=tikit |
Dahon Vids
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James - This is a great Post/thread.
Moderator(s) ... How about it getting it pinned to the top of the folder forums, as a sticky ? |
Where are the Downtube vids?
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Another Bike Friday video, discovered while browsing on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOhcJtxmpg&NR |
Originally Posted by LittlePixel
Nice idea for a thread... Kudos!
This is a bit tenuous (as you can't see the bike) - but this is me going down the hill from my house on the way to work last year with my Ixus clamped to the bars of my Twenty using my trusty Manfrotto clamp. Getting about 32mph there - my best (pre-fixie) was 39 but that was plain scary! I want to see a timelapse of a build from bits to completed bike :) |
Originally Posted by DaFriMon
Another Bike Friday video, discovered while browsing on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYOhcJtxmpg&NR |
some new home strida videos on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl91ScxyBPg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StitPmz6iZo the second one is of a strida 5 |
MicroBike (from Craigslist ad):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pSxuycoycA |
Originally Posted by james_swift
Where are the Downtube vids?
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