127-mph Bike

[The Renaissance Man]

This may have been posted before, but I stumbled onto this article at bikehugger.com and wanted to share it.

Talk about a large chainring... 130 tooth!

 

[yoothgeye]

I love those old speed record bikes, I saw one at a bike shop in Pennsylvania. The backwards fork looks weird, but they said it helped handling at high speeds, plus, they only went straight anyway.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I wondered why the fork was reversed.

 

[yoothgeye]

Either what I said or it was Walmart assembled.

 

[RustySprockets]

That reversed fork probably functions like the the nose wheel on a shopping cart. May build something like this one day, but using two bottom brackets for gear reduction.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

The scary part of that bike is the brakes!

 

[yoothgeye]

That reversed fork probably functions like the the nose wheel on a shopping cart. May build something like this one day, but using two bottom brackets for gear reduction.

Run a flip flop hub with low gear on the left side and a chain to a gutted freewheel on the right, you'd get the look without the leg burn.

The scary part of that bike is the brakes!

Nah, imagine where they rode these things, LONG FLAT places, they also had a draft car, they could start coasting, then get out of draft and aerodynamics would get them to a more manageable braking speed.

 

[LukeTheJoker]

Anyone else notice the brace under the nose of the seat? I guess that is there so you can sit right on the nose "on the rivet" for more power and it wont suddenly shift on you. Imagine a shifting seat at 100+mph...

Luke.

 

[mikeeebikey]

Just try imagining 100 mph on a bicycle! Let alone a saddle shift.

 

[The Renaissance Man]

I'm assuming that what looks like tape around some of the spokes is counter weights for balancing the wheels. At that kind of speed, the slightest imbalance could be catastrophic!