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Hase link their way to a record
The longest tandem ever as tons of trikes make a snake...
German manufacturer Hase Spezialraeder put on a great show last weekend. Owners gathered from across the country (maybe beyond!) and in the end, 65 Kettwiesel trikes and two Trets trailertrikes were linked up in a chain 92m long for the Guinness Book of Records attempt - and the 'snake' then rode about a kilometer, apparently.
Plenty more pics here.
Hase have plenty of UK dealers - see their website or the Velo Vision advertising pages for details.
Posted on 30 June 2003
Your comments ...| From: Steven Brandist (email) on 30 June 2003 |
| I hope they all put their names on the 91 removed front wheels. |
| From: Steven Brandist (email) on 30 June 2003 |
| Alright, alright! 64 front wheels then. 92 was the length. 36 is the number of spokes in my back wheel and Thunderbird 2 is the green dumpy one with the interchangeable pods. And Pi is 3.142. There. See I am good with numbers really. |
| From: Geoff Bird ([email protected]) on 30 June 2003 |
| 3.1415927 actually. Isn't maths beautiful... |
| From: Ralf Grosser ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
Is this a tandem?
To me a tandem is a bike built for two a quadroplet a bike built for four.
This is a set of existing bikes linked to each other.
A record "tandem" or multidem would be a bike with two wheels and as many as posible riders in between.
If I take as many VW beatles as possible and conect them with towbars I still dont have the worlds longest VW. |
| From: sue ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
| True, but as the word tandem came from the latin for 'long' or 'at length', this could qualify in philological terms. I hope they had a 'long vehicle' sticker on the back. And by the time the back end got to the pub, the beer would have run out.... |
| From: John J ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
| Tandem: Group of two or more persons, machines, etc., with one behind or following another. |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
If we're going to get picky with pi then 3.1415927 really doesn't cut it.
22/7 really is it.
On a sadly related note, back in '83 I was trapped inside my tent in somewhere-in-Belgium with an angry swarm of wasps outside and to pass the time I calculated pi to 200 decimal places. |
| From: gNick ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
Being even more picky Pi isn't 22/7, that's a simplified version good to 2 decimal places.
It's up to 5 million decimal places at the moment as far as I recall.
God is in Heaven
Man is on Earth
The bear is in the forest |
| From: Antony (at pedalcars dot info) on 01 July 2003 |
OED (www.oed.com) says of tandem:
"a bicycle (tricycle) or canoe for two persons, one seated behind the other;"
and
"Co-operative, joint, dual; involving two persons, organizations, etc."
Amongst a lot of other quotations and definitions, true, but the rest are generally refering to horses, steam engines, etc. The above two seem the most relevant to cycles and people putting effort in. |
| From: Seamus ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
Actually I don't think we should have owt to do with pi on here 'cos of summat I saw on this pi page...
http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/bailey.html
It starts, "Beginning 3.14159..., never cycling, and going on forever."
Pretty pointless eh. |
| From: Andy Scafe ([email protected]) on 01 July 2003 |
When you read this lot, is it any wonder some people think we're nerds?(mostly club cyclists and mountain bikers naturally, and they just do it 'cos they feel threatened).
I had a try at a Kettweisel once, and rode unchallenged through a huge shopping mall by means of lying the pedals horizontally, resting one leg on the nearest pedal, and giving the occasional push on the wheels with my hands. HaHaHa, suckers! Great machines though. |
| From: Steven Brandist (email) on 01 July 2003 |
| Oh Andy, you are a wheeze. You've lived my dream (sort of) to ride through a shopping centre, supermarket (etc) on all those flat, smooth surfaces, just imagine the speed you get past the Scotch eggs in Aisle 6. |
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