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Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - RAMd®d - 05-31-2009
Disagree . . . looks like a very professional fabrication to me.
I didn't say unprofessional, though I don't know that it is. I said fragile, and probably not able to support the weight of somebody on the ladder.
The front bracket appears to be clamped via two bolts and nuts around that one top tube. The aft bolt might go through the tube, I can't tell. That doesn't seem like sound engineering.
The piece on which the ladders "front" legs rest on appears to be held on by two screws/bolts and nothing more. I can see how this could support a lightweight aluminum or fiberglass ladder, but the hardware just doesn't seem up to bearing the weight of a body.
Yeah, that's all supposition, but unless the hardware is make from some Kryptonian alloy or it's a four-year old climbing that ladder, it just doesn't seem strong enough to bear significant weight.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - Seacrest - 05-31-2009
Maybe it's "art" -- no utility whatsoever -- created only to get people talking about it.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - modelamac - 05-31-2009
It's transportation for today's lamplighter.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - AAA - 05-31-2009
Please go back down and leave a note on it and find out for us. The suspense is killing me.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - GGD - 06-01-2009
AAA wrote:
Please go back down and leave a note on it and find out for us. The suspense is killing me.
Put the URL of this thread on the note, I'm sure we'll have follow-up questions.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - laarree - 06-01-2009
Actually Seacrest gets the prize. :-)
As I discovered, the bike was parked outside of an art gallery that had a one-person show
going on, works by an artist named William Lamson.
http://www.pierogi2000.com/flatfile/lamsonw.html
In one darkened room was a video installation, where, on parallel half-screens, a video was
being projected that showed the following: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqW0o3QgmU&feature=channel
His other work was also fascinating -- I exchanged a photo of mine for a drawing made by
a device made from a Sharpie tied by a string to a floating balloon and buffeted by a white
ceiling fan. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlLpQ3cHAdc :burnout:
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - AAA - 06-01-2009
I can rest securely tonight. God bless you.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - Speedy - 06-01-2009
Hitting a low bridge, etc. would be a big problem.
Re: Photo: The WTF??!-cycle - laarree - 06-01-2009
Speedy wrote:
Hitting a low bridge, etc. would be a big problem.
Given his limited and very specific agenda, I'm sure the artist has easily avoided problems
like that. Besides, he has a car and has a friend shooting HD video of him from his car
while he is bicycling around (look at the video).
I think the whole thing was very cool--very well conceived and performed.
I'll be damned. - RAMd®d - 06-01-2009
Very cool!
A great video.