The rhythm is absolutely WRONG. Sorry. Closest it comes to is a walk and it's not right even for that. Trot is a two beat steady rhythm, walk is four beat but that has too much pause between the two sets of beats. Canter is three beat, gallop is back to four.
Cannot endorse this, as I am strangely neurotic about anything claiming to have anything to do with horses.
Farmgirl: clearly, they need a new cam. The "clip-clop, clip-clop" cam is pretty obvious and getting the right rhythm is intuitive -- if you know what the rhythm should be.
More difficult: building a little centrifugal transmission so it shifts walk - trot - canter - gallop as the bicycle speeds up!
Anyway, they've helpfully included a photo of the panel after laser cutting, so I'm sorely tempted to make up a few prototypes in a better choice of material (HDPE cutting board?) and with potentially better cam designs.
Actually should be pretty easy with drill, a few sizes of hole saw do save fiddling on the round bits, and a jigsaw.
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Coconut not included? What a gyp!
ReplyDeleteBut of course!
ReplyDeleteWhat, ridden on a horse?
ReplyDeleteThe rhythm is absolutely WRONG. Sorry. Closest it comes to is a walk and it's not right even for that. Trot is a two beat steady rhythm, walk is four beat but that has too much pause between the two sets of beats. Canter is three beat, gallop is back to four.
ReplyDeleteCannot endorse this, as I am strangely neurotic about anything claiming to have anything to do with horses.
You have to find the coconut. In Mercia. Or get a swallow to deliver one.
ReplyDeleteFarmgirl: clearly, they need a new cam. The "clip-clop, clip-clop" cam is pretty obvious and getting the right rhythm is intuitive -- if you know what the rhythm should be.
ReplyDeleteMore difficult: building a little centrifugal transmission so it shifts walk - trot - canter - gallop as the bicycle speeds up!
wrm, african or european ?
ReplyDeleteWhat happen to putting a baseball card in the spokes?
ReplyDeleteYou need the cams set to sound like a Paso Fino.
Gerry
And it's not even delivering by Christmas!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, they've helpfully included a photo of the panel after laser cutting, so I'm sorely tempted to make up a few prototypes in a better choice of material (HDPE cutting board?) and with potentially better cam designs.
Actually should be pretty easy with drill, a few sizes of hole saw do save fiddling on the round bits, and a jigsaw.
Roberta, you build it, and get it right, and I will happily endorse it. Like I said, strangely neurotic.
ReplyDeleteI thought "hey that's awesome!" when I saw it, then went "Hey, burn it and start over" when I heard it.
"Message for you, sir!"
ReplyDeleteMike James