Just for fun...

[Jeremy McCreary]

Well, just found my next bike, and the missus said go for it!!

Skip to 15:22 for an overview of this large, roughly 1:2.5 LEGO scale model of a single-speed (but not fixie) road bike with modern frame and wheels.

Sariel, the reviewer, is a world-renown designer/builder of working LEGO vehicles and other machines, using primarily parts from LEGO's engineering-oriented Technic line. He also literally wrote the bible on advanced Technic building. He knows whereof he speaks.

Most Technic models are sturdy enough for serious play once built, but this one's too flimsy for anything but display. LEGO faced some tough engineering trade-offs here, as LEGO joinery doesn't lend itself to frame angles that are both realistic and strong at this scale.

Sariel found the model most remarkable for some very innovative new parts and building techniques — including the 1-way spur gear in the freewheeling rear hub.

Definitely buying this set for the parts if nothing else. As usual, will build it once by the book, modify to taste, display it for a while (where I don't know), then part it out. Those wheels have futures as somewhat aero high-inertia spinning tops.

 

[Chargeride]

I need to see that Lego freehub.

 

[Chargeride]

16 years old, hows that village doing.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

I need to see that Lego freehub.

He shows it in the new parts and maybe the functions sections See video description. Unfortunately, there's no iconic freewheeling sound.

 

[stompandgo]

A throwback to flexy frames.

 

[DaveMatthews]

Well, just found my next bike, and the missus said go for it!!

Skip to 15:22 for an overview of this large, roughly 1:2.5 LEGO scale model of a single-speed (but not fixie) road bike with modern frame and wheels.

Sariel, the reviewer, is a world-renown designer/builder of working LEGO vehicles and other machines, using primarily parts from LEGO's engineering-oriented Technic line. He also literally wrote the bible on advanced Technic building. He knows whereof he speaks.

Most Technic models are sturdy enough for serious play once built, but this one's too flimsy for anything but display. LEGO faced some tough engineering trade-offs here, as LEGO joinery doesn't lend itself to frame angles that are both realistic and strong at this scale.

Sariel found the model most remarkable for some very innovative new parts and building techniques — including the 1-way spur gear in the freewheeling rear hub.

Definitely buying this set for the parts if nothing else. As usual, will build it once by the book, modify to taste, display it for a while (where I don't know), then part it out. Those wheels have futures as somewhat aero high-inertia spinning tops.

Cool!
Remind me when I get home hopefully end of week from hospital, to snap a few pics of a couple of lovely scale models of bikes.
Nice!

 

[PedalUma]

Cool!
Remind me when I get home hopefully end of week from hospital, to snap a few pics of a couple of lovely scale models of bikes.
Nice!

I wish you well. Sorry to hear that you are hospitalized. I am almost fully recovered from ocular shingles. That was scary. I could have gone blind. The GP said that riding bikes everyday has aided my resiliency.

 

[DaveMatthews]

I wish you well. Sorry to hear that you are hospitalized. I am almost fully recovered from ocular shingles. That was scary. I could have gone blind. The GP said that riding bikes everyday has aided my resiliency.

Glad to hear you're on the road back mate. Nurse told me on the first night that in 8 years she'd never seen anyone with a blood count so low. I asked what she'd be looking at had it gone a step further and she said they'd be looking at revival techniques.
Thankfully between my logic and testosterone arguing with each other, logic won out and called an ambulance.
Stupid testosterone...
Ocular shingles sounds insane. Was there pain involved?

 

[PedalUma]

Glad to hear you're on the road back mate. Nurse told me on the first night that in 8 years she'd never seen anyone with a blood count so low. I asked what she'd be looking at had it gone a step further and she said they'd be looking at revival techniques.
Thankfully between my logic and testosterone arguing with each other, logic won out and called an ambulance.
Stupid testosterone...
Ocular shingles sounds insane. Was there pain involved?

A remnant of my childhood chicken pox virus was hiding in the nerve of a tooth under my cheek bone. The tooth nerve was all itchy and irritable last Tuesday night. I awoke Wednesday to swollen shut eye and a raging rash on my left forehead. I thought I had an abscess tooth bacterial infection and might be getting septicemia, blood poisoning. It really throbbed in the cheek bone. As for testosterone, I have not wanted any help of any kind for about 14-years. This thing was motivational. It is what it took for me to seek assistance. That is good. They gave me antivirals, ibuprofene, and for testosterone, steroids! So, now I can legitimately wear a sawed-off sleeveless Harley shirt. For 'blood count' is that red blood cell count or blood oxygen? Sounds serious. I wish the best.