Last night, I went down and worked on the new jig with partner Guy, and his partner, Doug, who graciously TIG welded the main beams together. Doug is an artist with his TIG welder. Fixtures are next.
Outlined the design criteria for Guy as to the new ideas taking shape of the Bike Concept. Such as overcoming the xforming bike shown in Holland in September '07.
The new ideas reverse the Holland approach while coupling them with tensional integrity and providing power to the frame.
Fundamental to this approach is that the default position is the upright while the recumbent position is the forced position. However, the wheel base is the recumbent position baseline. This provides a controlled transition between upright and recumbent positions, and with the possibility of intermediate positioning.
Noting the length of the jig, my conversation with Doug was as to the original intent of being able to build tandems. The idea then popped into my mind of a tandem xform. Probably doable once the intricacies are worked out for the single. In the meantime, certainly doable for a tensional tandem. Upright, or tandem.
It is going to be fun.
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