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Oneironaut
PostPosted: Fri Aug 23, 2024 2:00 pm 
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Thanks, I will go through the entire thread and replace any that might be missing using the archive.

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Thanks for recovering the images!

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Deleted this - image files lost.

Not quite lost - the Wayback Machine has them here.
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Excellent! (I have sometimes done similarly, to repair old posts of mine where the links or images have rotted.)
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Amazing! Glad you're doing OK, and thanks for fixing the photos!!

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BTW, if you guys haven’t already done so, be sure to visit Brad’s “Atomic Zombie” website to see some of the cool-looking, home-built bicycles he and his wife have designed.  I was especially intrigued by the “Skycycle,” which puts the rider at telephone-pole height, and got Brad listed in the Guinness Book of Records.  :shock:

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Hey, thanks for the plug!
Funny, I was just looking at a design I did for a 30 foot tall bike a few years back to outdo my old record.
It would be based on this over engineered one I made 15 years ago that allows climbing while in motion...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUwJgl15sqU

Being 10 years older than the first 6502 now though.... maybe I will stick to saner adventures!

I recently renamed AtomicZombie to https://chopzone.com/ as I can't afford to fight the trademark every year now.

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Your works have always brought me back here during the last few years when I was too busy to work on my own projects.

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BTW, if you guys haven’t already done so, be sure to visit Brad’s “Atomic Zombie” website to see some of the cool-looking, home-built bicycles he and his wife have designed.  I was especially intrigued by the “Skycycle,” which puts the rider at telephone-pole height, and got Brad listed in the Guinness Book of Records.  :shock:
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Oneironaut wrote:
Funny, I was just looking at a design I did for a 30 foot tall bike a few years back to outdo my old record.

No way I’d be getting on a 30-foot-tall bike!  The likelihood of surviving a fall from that distance onto pavement is poor, at best, even though wearing a helmet.  Also, you’d have to be extra-vigilant about not accidentally running into power lines while riding.  :shock:  On the other hand, the view of oncoming traffic would be fantastic.  Just gotta watch out for traffic signals, street lights and bridges.  :D

BTW, how much did the “Skycycle” weigh?

In the ones you have on your site for construction by DIYers, what is the wall thickness of the tubing you are specifying in your plans?  I’d think anything much over 16 gauge (~.063", 1.5mm) would make for a heavy frame.  On the other hand, anything thinner would be a challenge for most amateur weldors working with a buzzbox—even 16 ga might be difficult with a basic AC machine and E6013 electrodes.

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It would be based on this over engineered one I made 15 years ago that allows climbing while in motion...

Looks dangerous as hell, but with 100 percent on the coolness meter.  :D

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Your works have always brought me back here during the last few years when I was too busy to work on my own projects.

Thanks for that.  I’d like to think someone is getting something useful out of my posts.

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I too would not be happy thirty feet from the ground... three thousand feet, no problem, thirty feet, um, maybe not :mrgreen:

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Piloting one of these ultra tall bikes feels like flying since you can't see anything but the world ahead of you.
Here is my original SkyCycle, not nearly my tallest, but the one that went viral.

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It was cool to get my mug in the book too...

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I too would not be happy thirty feet from the ground... three thousand feet, no problem, thirty feet, um, maybe not :mrgreen:

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I too would not be happy thirty feet from the ground... three thousand feet, no problem, thirty feet, um, maybe not :mrgreen:

Presumably, at 3000 feet, you’d have time to consider your options if things go off the rails.  At 30 feet, you might not have enough time to say “Oh sh*t!” when the front wheel gets stuck in a sewer cover and you get catapulted off the bike (had that happen when I was a kid—it made a “lasting impression” on me when I face-planted on the pavement).

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Oneironaut wrote:
Piloting one of these ultra tall bikes feels like flying since you can't see anything but the world ahead of you.

Of course, you can’t stop riding unless there’s something nearby against which you can lean.  Plus, you might have trouble with low-flying birds flapping around you trying to figure out if you’re one of them.  :D

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Thanks, it's nice to finally have a chance to drop in and think about continuing this thread and the project.
That quote... makes me smile when I see it. I think that was over at AVR freaks when I made that comment. Probably up to late with too much java as usual.


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Amazing! Glad you're doing OK, and thanks for fixing the photos!!
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