Look, Mom, No Hands!

    Photos by ricmic01, riding and (overly agressive) editing by me.
    (Not quite as bad at the original size.)

    You think you can ride a bicycle? Meet pivoting-boom front-wheel drivecenter steered bikes, and think again! On these, you start back at square one. ... and then, you no longer need your hands for riding. :-)
    (That handlebar is mostly there for the brake levers and for the shifter.)

    (Someone else) in motion.

    Comments and faves

    1. jiggerjohndelgado (9 months ago | reply)

      awesome and interesting!

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      jiggerjohndelgado added this photo to his favorites. (9 months ago)

    3. MarkNKL (9 months ago | reply)

      You look quite pleased with yourself :D Love the panning shot!!!

    4. Nikola IlIev (9 months ago | reply)

      sweet ride man :)

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      Leben Ⅰ added this photo to his favorites. (9 months ago)

    6. Leben Ⅰ (9 months ago | reply)

      interesting！：D

    7. Trish McCoy (9 months ago | reply)

      that is one cool looking bike. and some great pics too.

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      abdulaziz4 added this photo to his favorites. (9 months ago)

    9. Dom 0815 (9 months ago | reply)

      Like it.
      How are you? Long time no see/ hear/mail etc......
      I'll try to come by more often now but... well, we'll see.

    10. Traciѐ (9 months ago | reply)

      You are awesome. :)
      and look who surfaced.... oh how I have missed this man too. :)

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      Karl Batchelor added this photo to his favorites. (9 months ago)

    12. Karl Batchelor (9 months ago | reply)

      Wonderful set..especially the motion blur on the top right. Looks fun

    13. :: thankyou :: [deleted] (9 months ago | reply)

      Excellent series

    14. -cr (9 months ago | reply)

      Yep, I also think ricmic01 did a great job, especially with his panned shots.


      Btw, I *always* wear a helmet riding my bikes - except in this mini shooting here. Looking at my receding hair line: maybe I should have worn one for these shots, too. :-)

    15. mistybliss (8 months ago | reply)

      Yes, awesome is right! Although your flevo bike is super cool, it's not as pretty as my new two wheeler!!!! :-)

    16. -cr (8 months ago | reply)

      Really? Can you prove it? How about a photo with you riding it, to show that you're right? And that you actually have a two wheeler! :-)

    17. Euanthe { very busy } (8 months ago | reply)

      hehe super...you really enjoy it..:))

    18. Elizabeth Pellette (7 months ago | reply)

      very cool.. how do you steer it

    19. -cr (7 months ago | reply)

      With your feet, which here have to use power to propel the bike, and at the same time have to be subtle for steering control. You also use a bit of weight shifting for balance, mostly by moving your knees/legs left or right.

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      grijsmeisje added this photo to her favorites. (7 months ago)

    21. grijsmeisje (7 months ago | reply)

      wij hebben er zo 1 in de schuur

      do you speak dutch

      also untrue
      we have a ligbike in our fietsbarn
      but a flevoBIKE like THIS with nu steer behind my KOTA..

    22. grijsmeisje (7 months ago | reply)

      A new Comment!

      YOU are SO EXTRME!!

      flevobike is an invention made in my birthtown. I live now 30 kilomteres same area other town.
      I drive a bike like this WITH a steer a so called understeer.
      But my first like this was a very easy to drive famous design from flevobike.

      You know ? Flevobike is original father and 2 sons? I think so. They start to make lying bikes at the time not many people were bizzy on that market.
      The fabric was in my hometown were I am raised a farm, wich does belong to a very boring town with about 15.000 people. Having a wonderful famous theatre.

      Ha ha ha ha ha I wanted a lying bike so off course it must be from my hometown. I did want this bike but the problem was I am 160 cm small and 47 kilo heavy and the design did simply not fit my design. IT IS A MANS WORLD. The brothers were complaining they had to saw that irmon tubes because my short lenght.
      Wen I came to pick up my bike..my bike was forgotten to make ready.. I had no money, and I had to wait 2 hours till they made it ready and they did not offer me lunch, funny talks, drinks. I just was sitting there somewere in the building. Ha ha ha ha ha ha in fact AUTISME was RULING in that family..Not for a fun thing to say or suggest but for real real real. It is funny because they had succes all over the world and could expand in a happy way.

      Than I had that bike and I was starving from hunger and I did cycle to my parents and eat there and from them I went home wich is 35 kilomteres and many wind.

      After 3 months I could say I had it all. The very easy going wild feeling on that bike.

      The bike has been stolen. Now I am having a lying bike with understeer wich is difficult to steal wen you have no expiriance and also because my short lenght.

      BUT NOW this. this bike is the most famous bike of this company. And strange enough named BIKE and the version with 3 wheels named TRIKE.

      AND YES

      I have a backyard 40 metres
      wooden house named KOTA after 20 metres
      and there is standing a real bike like this. THE early FLEVOBIKE

      a very early version. and needing surgery of many kind.

      GREETZ Astrid

    23. grijsmeisje (7 months ago | reply)

      WY extreme?

      driving a lying bike

      driving that bike

      being not dutch

      but not extreme in any negative way

      and may be you are making gold of everything you do and suffering a happy boring life
      ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha GOOD IF SO!

    24. -cr (7 months ago | reply)

      Extreme? Way to go! :-)

      Want to go lower, and drop the silly handlebar?
      => www.olafjohansson.com/monty/montypage.html

      Or for a *much* improved overview in traffic
      => www.atomiczombie.com/ct-skywalker.html#skywal ker

      I'd love to test ride these two!

    25. Robyn Geering Photography (5 months ago | reply)

      very cool - you look so relaxed. I have always wondered how hard it must be to go up hill on these bikes. You can't stand up on the pedals.....

    26. -cr (5 months ago | reply)

      Not being able to stand up on the pedals is more of a problem riding over obstacles, or up curbs. Going uphill, the front wheel losing traction is the problem with this particular bike here. Not the perfect bike for the mountains, or for rugged terrain - but lots of fun elsewhere. :)

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