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Originally Posted by shapelike
(Post 7856934)
I've been trying to stay neutral on this one until all the facts come out but this is just too much:
http://www.citynews.ca/images/2008-1...8-bikecab1.jpg So not only was the guy a mugger who planned to escape by bike but the bike in question is also a road bike with SPDs and STI shifters? Not ****ing likely. This incident has really got to me. How many of us have yelled at some idiot on the street for doing something dangerous with several tons of steel? And then to have the guy hit you and something like that happen ... guh, it makes my skin crawl. FWIW, went by BoW last night, and you guessed it: the Steelwool was still there. |
that ****s so gnarly, couldn't believe my eyes when that report came up on the news.
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also, i'm not sure if i can post this here but, does anyone want to buy a 48t sugino75 chainring?
i'll let it go for $40. (just the ring, not the cranks, people on CL are so ******ed.) |
Originally Posted by kergin
(Post 7856954)
Here's to hoping he still rides, despite this awful event. I remember seeing someone with one leg pedaling along Christie once, so it's possible.
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Originally Posted by iherald
(Post 7857429)
That was probably me! Unless someone dressed as me for halloween! :)
We have a customer, originally from Afghanistan, who lost his left leg during the war with the Russians. Really interesting guy...super nice. He rides everywhere with his crutch bungied to his top-tube. He put big ***** steel plates on the left pedal to help bring the crank around on the downstroke. Very ingenious. |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7858003)
You dressed up as a one legged cyclist? Thats unique! :D
We have a customer, originally from Afghanistan, who lost his left leg during the war with the Russians. Really interesting guy...super nice. He rides everywhere with his crutch bungied to his top-tube. He put big ***** steel plates on the left pedal to help bring the crank around on the downstroke. Very ingenious. |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7858003)
You dressed up as a one legged cyclist? Thats unique! :D
We have a customer, originally from Afghanistan, who lost his left leg during the war with the Russians. Really interesting guy...super nice. He rides everywhere with his crutch bungied to his top-tube. He put big ***** steel plates on the left pedal to help bring the crank around on the downstroke. Very ingenious. |
Originally Posted by kergin
(Post 7858300)
That's wild. I'm pretty sure you can get a prosthetic leg that would work with bike pedals. Imagine having SPD-compatible legs?
You have never met iherald have you? |
my buddy got in a climbing accident (big rock + gravity + bad luck = crushed knee) and now can only bend his knee 50*, so were gonna set him up with a bike with one crank so he can ride again, but instead of putting his cane on the tt were gonna get him a rifle holder, like hunters use for ATV's and put it on the front wheel and put the cane in that :D
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Over the summer i seen a guy that had no legs and no arms riding a bike.
Strangest think i seen today on the street car ride home. Guy riding a fixed gear with SPD pedals and rubbers boots.:D |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7858378)
I am pretty sure I heard of a guy who rode across Canada with a prosthetic leg. It was to raise $ for Cancer research if I remember correctly.
You have never met iherald have you? |
There is a man from my home town who commuted to his job with Atomic energy of Canada (research division) who had one paralyzed and atrophied leg. He kept it on a stationary crank which stayed at the bottom of the pedal stroke, and pedaled entirely with the other leg. I think he's still around and cycling regularly. He must be in his 70s by now. He was rather fast in the local cycling club, as I recall.
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OK...it's killing me.
http://www.cyclingforcancer.ca. Iheralds link-e-poo. |
Re: severed leg incident. BOO! HISS! ****. I hate that every time I (or anyone I know/care about) go out there, something like this could happen. I'm just trying to get somewhere, just like everyone else, dammit! I hope he recovers OK.
In other news, does anyone with a 28" waist want to trade me something neat for a pair of charcoal UTW shants? |
hm - i'll see if i can squeeze into them....
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has anyone made mudflaps for fenders? i'm brainstorming some ideas for materials for mudflaps for my winter bike. brad where did you pick up those yosemite sam jobbies on lil hauler?
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They're truck mudflaps from crappytire. The car ones are too small (if you want to use the graphics anyhow)
I cut them with a sharp knife to the shape I wanted, and attached them with 4 aluminum POP rivets. They're a bit heavy so the fenders tend to wiggle a bit on the rough stuff, but it's been nearly a year and they're holding up fine. |
Originally Posted by cavernmech
(Post 7858003)
You dressed up as a one legged cyclist? Thats unique! :D
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Alex Wetmore's page has some directions. He uses stair-tread rubber. Any like rubber you can buy off the roll should work. I think Canadian Tire has something similar for carpet runners but in all rubber.
http://phred.org/~alex/bikes/fendermudflap.html |
I sliced up an old floppy binder cover and duct-taped it to the fenders. It was ghetto, no doubt about it, but it worked pretty well.
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Keith gave me the idea of using the curved sides to a detergent bottle or something similar - fixed on with rivets or something would work well. I've heard those election signs (coroplast?) can work too *shrug*.
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
(Post 7862099)
hm - i'll see if i can squeeze into them....
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a 2L plastic pop bottle cut into thirds length wise can be jimmyed up too, with the use of an un-bent coat hanger and some duct tape
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Originally Posted by jeremywhitehorn
(Post 7862107)
has anyone made mudflaps for fenders? i'm brainstorming some ideas for materials for mudflaps for my winter bike. brad where did you pick up those yosemite sam jobbies on lil hauler?
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Yup I used some floor mat from the hardware store. And some rivets.
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