little kids LOVE my bike!

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:13:09 -0700, Mark Hickey
wrote:
Jasper Janssen wrote:
On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 08:13:17 -0700, Mark Hickey
wrote:

Wow. How hard is it to actually get it to go around a corner?

Mark "I'm guessing it's not too light" Hickey

Do you think it *can* go around corners?

I have serious doubts... I'm trying to picture the technique, and it's
scary at best, impossible at worst. I suspect it would either take a
great bit of body english to initiate a turn, or a LOT of
countersteering to get it leaning the right way.

I think you need to make very sure you don't lean the bike. That will mean
going slowly around curves -- but since there does not appear to be a
brake anywhere on there, aside from being a fixie, I wouldn't want to get
that amount of kinetic energy going too fast anyway.

Sadly, chopper style bikes (though not with THAT big of a square rear
tire) seem to be catching on with kids. I saw one duck-footing one
down a MUP a week ago - couldn't keep it going in a straight line long
enough to really pedal the stupid thing. Sigh...

Yeah, well, it's a MUP. They're usually crowded enough to make any bike
need to use it as a walker.

Jasper