Cycling - On Water!! (video)
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Get the tools out, Trex, and you can have your own. Who's going to be first to electrify one?
I just noticed, the steering goes the wrong way. It needs one of those mechanisms that reverses the handlebar rotation to make it more natural - like on those bikes they have at shows that you can't ride.
I just noticed, the steering goes the wrong way. It needs one of those mechanisms that reverses the handlebar rotation to make it more natural - like on those bikes they have at shows that you can't ride.
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If you ever have a go on those Sega bikes in amusement arcades, you'd understand. On a two wheeled vehicle, you push the bars to the right to turn left and vice versa. On that water bike, you push the bars to the right to go right, which is why the guy looks very nervous when steering. it's totally unnatural.
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I'm sorry Dave, but I can't see that. The guy is barely turning the handlebars at all, he's leaning to get the turning effect, though the slight movement he does make is with the turn (left to left &c.) It would be unnatural to turn the handlebars left to go right and vice versa. In that regard, it's no different to riding a bike, surely?
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Go out on your bike. Put one thumb behind each handlebar. Push forward with one of them and see which way you go. Surprise, surprise!
I can't believe you're fooled by it.
There's no way he's going fast enough on that size of hydrofoil, with his body weight. And we're meant to believe that he just pushes off from the jetty and immediately starts hydro-foiling? Give me a break, please. My head doesn't button up the back.
It's a pi55take, pure and simple.
That would depend on how fast you're going. At low speed a push to the right would send you left (just like a pull to the left would). At higher speed inertia plays a part, and you would actually induce a right turn. You said
[video=youtube;pm5HV0g6Ios]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm5HV0g6Ios&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
I can't see that would make it any easier to ride. On the other hand, if he (the waterbiker, not the guy in this video) were to countersteer (assuming he is going fast enough
), I could see that working
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Instead of theorising, go out and try it at any speed.
For the doubters, look at this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZITueUW9Rk
For the doubters, look at this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZITueUW9Rk
I must say the bike video looks dodgy, The ride is too smooth, it cannot be a modified aqua-skipper.
At the end of the video, the rider sunk into the water, meaning that there is not enough static bouyancy to keep the rider in the riding stance, so a fairly substantial vortex is needed below or behind the bike to provide lift when in riding position and there is no sign of it.
At the end of the video, the rider sunk into the water, meaning that there is not enough static bouyancy to keep the rider in the riding stance, so a fairly substantial vortex is needed below or behind the bike to provide lift when in riding position and there is no sign of it.
At the end of the video it looks as if he he's lifting the front end so that the bike sinks horizontally as comes off the end of the submerged track, rather than nose diving.
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How easy would it be to create a rail system under a lake, especially one that can keep the bike at a constant height relative to the water? I think even Disney World would struggle. I think that it would be a lot easier to build a bike to do it.