dogman said:
Luke said it was the worst handling two wheel ride he'd ever thrown a leg over.
Until he got on CrazyBIke2 with my moronically-implemented last-minute fork changeover. :lol:
Those of you who weren't there, you cannot imagine the difficulty of riding that track unless you've ridden another kart track yourself. Those corners are really tight, and you come screaming into them. Rider skill really shows on that track.
No kidding.
Even at 25MPH or less, at least two, three of those corners are pants-filling if you're not expecting them, especially if you've never ridden anything that fast except downhill straight.
PaulD said:
The (proposed) rules might get a bit complicated, but we could have +10lbs allowed if your running NiCads, +20lbs if you have Lead acid... maybe +10lbs if you have a recumbent.. just thinking out loud... I would be on the fence if we wanted a weight allowance for hub motors - they could probably be lightened up quite a bit, and you don't have all the extra chain(s), sprockets, bearings, shafts, etc..
Well, even so, that'd still put things like CrazyBIke2 out. LIterally, it weighs as much as I do. Probably more at the race itself, because even with the pods taken off, it had added battery to the tune of probably 3x what the pods weigh.
*maybe* the new bike will weigh less, but given what I have to make things out of (whatever is laying around, instead of ideal materials and methods), that's no certainty. It is quite possible it will be *heavier*.
I could never ride an upright bike in turns like those; I'd have to slow down to 15MPH or less for even the most gentle of the turns, and practically stop for the hairpins; I just don't have the physical ability to handle the bike when I'm that high up. But on the much lower type I am on, I can do a lot more, and still keep control of it. At least, when I haven't totally screwed up the geometry and steering of it.
mdd0127 said:
One tip for Amberwolf: well two....get it looked at......the second one is get a snowboard boot for the bum ankle.
I had actually been pondering some old ski boots I have around here that I had modified for a robot costume many years ago. I cut them so that while they are still very stiff laterally, they pivot just enough forward and back to allow walking (slowly), and would probably still allow pedalling.
They most certainly would have prevented my injury, and I will be wearing them or something very like them next time.
LFP's jacket and gloves saved my upper half from injury and road rash...if I had only taken the same kind of care/precautions with my legs.... So let this be a lesson to you all.
As soon as I can today, I am going to wait down at the ER to try to get in and onto AHCCCS (cuz I can't afford to have this looked at otherwise); i just have to wait for a neighbor to be available to take me down there and pick me up afterward, as I do not wish to leave CB2 out there for the several hours I will probably be sitting waiting to be seen.
Then it's back to work tomorrow, probaby in my wheelchair the first day; gonna have to rig up an AussieJester-style clip hitch for the chair on CB2.
I watched the crash footage a few times and rider error wasn't the issue there. Your frame had some oscillation going on in that turn. I call em the wiggle shts. Caused me to eat pavement many times for sure! That's something even pro race teams battle. You did awesome!
Yeah, as I noted in my earlier wall of text, I screwed up the geometry and steering by a last-minute fork change; the bike had no such problems before I did that, even at much faster speeds.