just found my next ebike project...
- Thread starter Beeping-Sleauty
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Two things strike me about this. The first is the way the chap on the goods trike is staring at the caravan as though it's really odd, while to our eyes his goods trike would be extraordinary if we saw it on our streets.
The second is the way the Chinese always seem to cycle, flat footed with the pedals in the instep (usually with very slow cadence too). You'd think that with so many cycling they'd know better, but only the very rare sport cyclist out of China seems to know how to position the feet on a bike's pedals for best advantage.
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The second is the way the Chinese always seem to cycle, flat footed with the pedals in the instep (usually with very slow cadence too). You'd think that with so many cycling they'd know better, but only the very rare sport cyclist out of China seems to know how to position the feet on a bike's pedals for best advantage.
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this might be a practice throughout the Asian nations, or maybe flat feet (like short sight) is more common in people from these nations. I remember my Dad complaining about flat feet (although he used to complain about all sorts of illnesses!)
On a lighter note, I saw an amusing video of a middle aged Japanese couple teaching a pet dalmatian to succesfully ride a childs bike (albeit with stabilisers) and the dog was also cycling like this..
What made it even more amusing was the old folks seemed to showed genuine pride in the dog's achievment (as if it were a grandchild!) and the dog was very diginified (as much as a dalmatian riding a brighly coloured childs bicycle can be)..
YouTube - Bicycle
I think the dog has since won a major contract to advertise dog food and still appears in adverts today
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Brilliant Alex, so typical of a dog to want to please it's masters.
You're right, the flat footed instep cycling is common throughout Asia. It's so inefficient though, since it means a relatively lower saddle position with less leverage advantage to apply pedal force. I remember Wai Won Ching of eZee remarking that the Chinese don't cycle up hills and cannot understand our UK obsession with doing that. Of course with that flat footed cycling, going uphill would be twice as difficult, so their hill aversion is understandable.
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You're right, the flat footed instep cycling is common throughout Asia. It's so inefficient though, since it means a relatively lower saddle position with less leverage advantage to apply pedal force. I remember Wai Won Ching of eZee remarking that the Chinese don't cycle up hills and cannot understand our UK obsession with doing that. Of course with that flat footed cycling, going uphill would be twice as difficult, so their hill aversion is understandable.
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Great project and a nice twist on the combining camper van with bicycle holiday thing. Perhaps you could try holidaying in the alps
That would make for a most interesting post if you survived the downhill stretches.