Some of you may have seen this before, but I thought it was very, very interesting, I know Lee Valley rum an article on this young fellow. And my daughter sent me 2 clippings from different newspapers. One was in the Montreal Gazette and the other was in the National Post.You can see it on the net at http://tinyurl.com/2tubv .
Jack
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The link doesn't seem to work, page not found error. Can ya post it again? You got me curious. Thanks.
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Sorry about that here it is again http://tinyurl.com/2tucbv hope this works.
Jack
The understatement of the year: "Designing and building a wooden chain that would actually work without breaking proved the greatest challenge." No kidding! Thanks, Jack, enjoyed reading it.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Sparky, you don't need to use the "tinyurl" thing. Simply copy the url from the web page, come here to the composition box for your post. Then click on the Hyperlink icon (a blue globe with a chain link in it). There will pop up a box to paste the URL into (turn off pop-up blocker. Oh! If you use IE7, watch for scripted window warning and click to allow_).
Well FOREST GIRL You didn't say anything about the young craftsman, all you did was correct me, you don't have to do that that's what my wife does. thank you very much
Jack
Edited 3/5/2008 7:30 am ET by sparky 2006
Calm down, Jack. She was just trying to help.Frosty"I sometimes think we consider the good fortune of the early bird and overlook the bad fortune of the early worm." FDR - 1922
Geeeeeeez......
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Edited 3/5/2008 11:06 am by forestgirl
forestgirl,
Wouldn't ya know it, them young whippersnappers seem to always have a twist in their knickers! Tell 'im you'll meet him at high noon and he'd best be packin heat!
No not the medicinal kind..............
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 3/5/2008 11:34 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
Lataxe,
Perhaps the chaps here might be able to help with them spelcs. I say nay to them wooden seats!
http://www.arborwood.com
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
I have a couple of Harleys if you'd like to convert them to wood drive.
Nah, I wouldn't wanna do that to a classic. But on the other hand if ya wanted to make a woodie bike, why not an Injun Woodie! Repleat with a spelcy seat, just to get ya goin!
Regards,
Bob @ Kidderville Acres
A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!
Edited 3/6/2008 8:16 am ET by KiddervilleAcres
Would be a good choice.
I'm a biker, and I keep hearing rumors about Indian Motorcycles being re-exhumed from the coffin, but those rumblings have been going for five years now. At their last attempt, they were not Indians in any sense but the for the "name". They were collections of parts manufactured by Harley-Davidson (or H-D farmouts), S&S and various others, pieced together with an Indian label slapped on them.
Lataxe,
For racing, here's the thing:
http://www.motorcycle.com/events/the-first-motorcycle-45982.html
Mt Daimler's invention, partway down the page. Wooden frame, but some few other parts metal, for internal combustion; and leather, for reduction of the dreaded derriere-spelk factor.
Maybe I'll reproduce this, put the motor from the Chief onto it. We'll call it the "wooden Indian"
Ray
Ray,
You are giving me bad dreams! I sees them kontraptions you pointed at and all that comes to mind is the effects of the explosion when one is astride the beast, throwing caution to the wind in that insane effort for more speed.
Just as 28.7 mph is reached, a critical weakness in the cross-bearing cyclinder regulator spindle precipitates an avalanche of spurious forces, in the shape of engine shrapnel heading for the nethers. One feels a bump and, looking back, sees a leg in the road. "Ha, ha, some fool has lost their leg", one cries in a fit of excessive adrenalin. Then the gear pedal seems hard to find, one looks down.... and the nightmare begins!
Lataxe, a pedal pusher (gravel rash worst scenario).
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