Obree the legend! He's at it again!

emtroche

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9248769/The-100mph-bike-designed-in-the-bath-and-made-from-an-old-saucepan.html

trad

How's he going to turn the pedals on that?

emtroche

As far as i can tell, the pedals are gonna be over the back wheel. Its a forward facing recumbant basically.

seamus

emtroche wrote: »

As far as i can tell, the pedals are gonna be over the back wheel. Its a forward facing recumbant basically.

It's a procumbent. Sounds dirty.

Plastik

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77794071&postcount=166

Here he is talking about it. Lunatic!

seve65

"A single turn of the gear will propel his bike around 30ft – compared with around 10ft achieved by a road racer's top gear. "You just roll it and go up through the gears. If you get into the top gear you are already doing 80mph," he said." :):eek::eek:


"And, in any case," he added, "having my nose to the wheel, going 80, 90 or maybe even 100mph across a road in America – that's pretty exciting." :eek::eek:

The Crunch

Met him last week for a feature I'm working on. Fascinating chap. A true innovator. His drivetrain system will impress...

emtroche

I once asked him on facebook if he'd ever thought about doing RAAM or Race Around Ireland or anything like that. His reply was - "Anything over40 miles is just wearing your body out! Poets live longer than cyclists."

What can ya say to that?!

SWL

I find this guy fascinating certainly the world needs more Graeme Obrees.

Planet X

Plastik wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=77794071&postcount=166

Here he is talking about it. Lunatic!

That's a great clip.
Just read his book recently, fascinating stuff.

funnights74

Love him or hate him he's definitely interesting, thinking outside the box is normal to him. He's even summed up his attitude to life with this quote.

"My biggest fear is not crashing on a bike and losing some skin. It's sitting in a chair at 90 and saying, 'I wish I had done more'

Who would have thought there is an International human powered vehicle association!! It's certainly news to me.

leftism

The word "GENIUS" is thrown about all too regularly, but for Graeme it is so accurate. His brain is simply wired differently to the rest of us. A true mad scientist!

Its almost a shame he's dedicated his life to a silly sport like cycling...

We need to lock all the people like Graeme in a room until they solve the worlds problems. We'd have a fully renewable energy source, a time machine and Marty Mcfly style hover boards in 6 months... Mostly built out of kitchen appliances!

Seweryn

leftism wrote: »

The word "GENIUS" is thrown about all too regularly, but for Graeme it is so accurate. His brain is simply wired differently to the rest of us. A true mad scientist!

Its almost a shame he's dedicated his life to a silly sport like cycling...

We need to lock all the people like Graeme in a room until they solve the worlds problems. We'd have a fully renewable energy source, a time machine and Marty Mcfly style hover boards in 6 months... Mostly built out of kitchen appliances!

That is what I love about this man. Recycling of old parts, no unnecessary waste... Why our Government not learn from him? Instead they allowing stuff like scrappage scheme and all that, which is IMO worse than making drugs legal...

furiousox

As luck would have it 'The Flying Scotsman' is on BBC2 tonight at 11.30pm.
I've never seen it, worth a look?

Rofo

furiousox wrote: »

As luck would have it 'The Flying Scotsman' is on BBC2 tonight at 11.30pm.
I've never seen it, worth a look?

Yes definitely

Seweryn

More news here...

Is that a washing machine behind Graeme? Looks like it is in one piece. Still...

mp31

Seweryn wrote: »

More news here...

Is that a washing machine behind Graeme? Looks like it is in one piece. Still...

He's worked out the ideal kitchen layout - Sink, Fridge, Cooker, Vice (none of yer work triangle stuff that all these kitchen designers go on about).

Mycroft H

Is their going to be some sort of fairing on it?

And if my calculations are correct its a top gear of 840 gear inches. Bloody hell.

griffin100

furiousox wrote: »

As luck would have it 'The Flying Scotsman' is on BBC2 tonight at 11.30pm.
I've never seen it, worth a look?

Just watched it, really good. Think I'll look out for his book.

studiorat

Did anyone see the Obree Biography Film on TV last night?

TheBlaaMan

BX 19 wrote: »

And if my calculations are correct its a top gear of 840 gear inches. Bloody hell.

I've been pondering this point - how will he get to those speeds without an enormous chainring and/or maintaining a really high cadence?

seamus

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

I've been pondering this point - how will he get to those speeds without an enormous chainring and/or maintaining a really high cadence?

It'll be a little from column A and a little from column B. At max speed he will be doing a very high cadence, but you're probably talking 120rpm at most. Anything else would be mental unstable.

I don't know enough about calculating gears and such, but I understand that he has the chainring at the pedals, plus an intermediate cassette and gear set, before it attaches to the wheel. My rudimentary understanding of gearing leads me to believe that this allows him to use "normal" sized cassettes and chainrings to develop stupid amounts of speed.

Or if you think about it this way - attach your big ring to a small cog which is attached to another big ring. Therefore for every rotation of your big ring, the other one will rotate (e.g.) five times. If you then attach this other big ring to a cassette on the wheel, then the wheel will rotate five more times for each push of the cranks, than if you were just using a standard crankset. In other words you can go five times faster for the same cadence (but you still need the power to do it).

funnights74

I know there was a thread started in here recently about this new attempt but i had no luck in finding it, but here is a detailed video of how he is going about building his latest creation.
A fascinating insight into his thought processes.

http://vimeo.com/43062006#at=0

Beasty

Threads merged

Beasty

studiorat

Quick interview and photos of him in Cycling weekly, sitting (lying) on that new bike. Probably on the back of that new training manual he has out.



The top gear will be about 300 inches according to the interview. Apparently at the moment the head tube sticks in his neck. I reckon he's going to cream himself on that thing.

Darkglasses

I really need someone to explain to me how he's going to pedal that contraption. I presume it's far from finished in that picture?

Mycroft H

Darkglasses wrote: »

I really need someone to explain to me how he's going to pedal that contraption. I presume it's far from finished in that picture?

Yea it looks far from finished, I'd say.

And the cool thing is? What could be one of the fastest bikes in the world is going to be made out of Reynold's steel tubing.

funnights74

The uci technical / health and safety department are bricking it as we speak.

Beasty

He's taken on board my name suggestion

http://vimeo.com/45034602

Seweryn

Beasty wrote: »

He's taken on board my name suggestion

http://vimeo.com/45034602

I also saw this video, interesting .

MrMischief

A great story by such an innovator. It would be great to see him break the landspeed record in August but no doubt the authorities will somehow try and claim he cheated. A lot of work & practise still to do by the looks of things and looks pretty dangerous!!

le petit braquet

Interesting interview with the man @ http://thebikeshow.net/the-obree-way/

seamus

Doesn't seem like the most comfortable ride judging by all the huffing and puffing and wobbling, but I'm sure he'll get plenty of practice on it.

buffalo

seamus wrote: »

Doesn't seem like the most comfortable ride judging by all the huffing and puffing and wobbling, but I'm sure he'll get plenty of practice on it.

He's lying on his ribcage I suppose, will restrict his lungs a bit. Looking forward to seeing it going at speed!