tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post115587321749255335..comments2010-04-22T18:09:10.171-04:00Gerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-78668059530260893372010-04-22T18:09:10.165-04:002010-04-22T18:09:10.165-04:00Hello Josie, if the right leg and foot can still move, even if they don&#39;t produce power, you could strap your right foot in the pedal.<br /><br />If not, you could remove the right pedal and install a peg somehow on the frame where you could rest your right foot.<br /><br />It is possible to ride with just one good leg, I have seen it for myself. The lady had strapped her bad foot in the pedal.<br /><br />Good Luck<br /><br />Gerry :)Gerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-85431648449849067822010-04-22T17:36:16.483-04:002010-04-22T17:36:16.483-04:00Dear Gerry: Due to an accident some time ago, my right lower leg and ankle/foot are unstable to use. I loved to go bicycling long distances and want to again. My old bike needs a few common parts so I&#39;m wondering How can I redo my bike so I can pedal with my good left leg/foot only and susspend my lame leg/foot on the other side? Thank You Josiejosiehttp://josietfran@yahoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-45356187337625632482010-02-10T14:03:12.424-05:002010-02-10T14:03:12.424-05:00Nutter. you look like a total twat, but hey, keep building stuff, its cool.. just not that thing!.Andyhttp://www.eyeballchat.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-36054740136134427472009-07-05T23:15:28.809-04:002009-07-05T23:15:28.809-04:00I tried to add photos of the luge on the previous comment but it would not let me, Sorry! Here is a link to the Landslide Luge.<br /><br />http://www.sunnymayent.com/sports/GERRY D.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-28438916887146595002009-07-05T23:08:27.536-04:002009-07-05T23:08:27.536-04:00I tried to add photos of the luge on the previous comment but it would not let me, Sorry! Here is a link to the Landslide Luge.<br /><br />http://www.sunnymayent.com/sports/landslide/index.aspAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-42514588245723085352009-07-05T22:59:13.084-04:002009-07-05T22:59:13.084-04:00This is pretty cool...But in 1997 a company with a product &quot;Landslide Luge&quot; came on the market and tried to get a new luge catagory going with this new product! They would hit speeds quicker &amp; faster than your regular &quot;classic&quot; luge &amp; were safer because of the brakes. They tried to get these into the X-GAMES and were denied because it had a bicycle wheel on it ! They said that it was not a &quot;real&quot; luge for the fact it only had 2 skateboard wheels &amp; no skateboard trucks! These things are fast &amp; in my opinion would have taken the sport of STREET LUGING to a higher more competitive level ! <br />GERRY D. FLAT BLACK KUSTOMS.<br /><br />[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/s332pd.jpg[/IMG]<br /><br />[IMG]http://i39.tinypic.com/2s0oghz.jpg[/IMG]<br /><br />[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/14cwviw.jpg[/IMG]<br /><br />[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/103tr2o.jpg[/IMG]GERRY D.http://www.myspace.com/flatblackkustomsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-74866497654899310942007-07-03T21:21:00.000-04:002007-07-03T21:21:00.000-04:00Again, thanks for your comments. I should dig up the pictures of my homebuilt jet engine made from a couple of cans and a hairdryer. Not much thrust, but a whole lot of flames!<BR/><BR/>GerryGerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-28022952897361859272007-07-03T20:25:00.000-04:002007-07-03T20:25:00.000-04:00Dude, cool! The street luge is my kinda fun.<BR/><BR/>BradBradhttp://www.atomiczombie.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-15656960134661442172007-03-30T19:18:00.000-04:002007-03-30T19:18:00.000-04:00Hey I’m 17 years old and I made a luge out of metal. I first made a square frame then I welded two bars on it to make a point at one end. I welded a bolt to the end of the point so that the bolt pointed down. I then put roller-blade wheels on each end of a pole with a hole in the middle. Then I bolted it to the frame at the point. I could then turn. I welded a school chair to the frame and I put roller-blade wheels on the back. It is a lot of fun and the fastest I went on it was about 40mph!! I had my friend drive by me in his car it was a stupid idea but we didn’t get hurt.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1163965412937876662006-11-19T14:43:00.000-05:002006-11-19T14:43:00.000-05:00Thanks for the comment on the luge d-ly. As for disliking America, one cannot generalize. I dislike morons, wherever they come from. G'day and bottoms up mate(Raising my Molson to your Fosters).Gerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1162711286155788922006-11-05T02:21:00.000-05:002006-11-05T02:21:00.000-05:00d-bly said...<BR/><BR/> " where I come from(America) we build real luges w/ 4 or 6 wheels. And we get them going 50+mp/h(easily).So wen u guys wanna man up n come race with the big dogs build a real luge. i.e. 1 u lay down on. "<BR/><BR/>dragstarking says...<BR/><BR/> where I come from(Australia) we build real men. And we get them going aggro(easily).So wen u guys wanna man up n come fight with the big dogs build a real man. i.e. I will make you lay down on the ground.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Cool luge BTW,I had to say that above as that attitude is why I dislike America so much.I suppose it's easy to be in the top 100 of a sport if there's only 100 participants.dragstarkingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157104624392475622006-09-01T05:57:00.000-04:002006-09-01T05:57:00.000-04:00Reminds me of something we used to have as kids. My friends father made my friend one and we used to bomb about on that. Basically a flat, rectangular board you could kneel on with a cross board pivoted at the front. Imagine building a trolley (or soapbox racer I think you call them in the states?) with the front wheels mounted to this pivoted board. Instead of wheels mounted to the ends of the board and a string to turn it to steer we had a skateboard truck under it as the wheels and handles on the ends of the board you used to steer it with. Insteading of sitting down on it you knelt on it, gripped the handles on the end of the cross board and used that to steer the skateboard wheels. At the back though was the clever bit. Instead of wheels we used big ball races. So the rear wheels were effectively just steel! On smooth tarsealed roads you could ride this thing with the back sliding about all over the damn place. It would make an absolutely horrendous noise and make huge marks all over the street. And of course you're kneeling on it and facing downhill so it was terribly dangerous but so much fun!Simonhttp://www.asciimation.co.nznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157071121390843552006-08-31T20:38:00.000-04:002006-08-31T20:38:00.000-04:00What a neat idea! Here from Makezine and thinking that (regardless of what D-Bly said) it took some serious balls to get on that thing ;-).<BR/><BR/>Very neat project, especially for just being slapped together one afternoon, you should be proud!mike from MD, USAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157060782162660822006-08-31T17:46:00.000-04:002006-08-31T17:46:00.000-04:00Wow! That's a lot of comments in one shot. Ok, first off, I don't have the luge anymore, sorry. I'm kicking myself now that I didn't take a video of it in action. A chute would have been definitely cool. As for a motor, I was thinking about putting some model rocket motors on it...big ones. But then I got my common sense back! We might build another one, but there is no garanties of that. I'd like to try the idea of the gravity bike too. Until then we have a plan of making a video of one of my homebuilt recumbents flying downhill. So many projects, so little time. What we be cool would be for one of the thousands of you who saw this post to actually build one and send me the result by email. Now that would be awsome. I'll be posting something soon about my air cannons on my other blog at sweetdestruction.blogspot.com, keep posted and thanks for the comments.<BR/><BR/> GerryGerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157041522018880092006-08-31T12:25:00.000-04:002006-08-31T12:25:00.000-04:00Great fun!! I did something similar when I was young. I read about downhill gravity racing in a bmx magazine and had to build one. I took a 20" bicycle frame, flipped it over. Put old 10 speed curved handle bars on it. Drilled a hole through the bottom bracket for the seat. Used foot pegs near the rear axle. You basically laid down on top. It had front & rear brakes, so it stopped pretty good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157038025450967322006-08-31T11:27:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:27:00.000-04:00We want a video!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157037714117665502006-08-31T11:21:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:21:00.000-04:00You need to motorize it, so you can get back up the hill.... A chainsaw engine would work. That is what those cheap minibikes use.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157036476167773912006-08-31T11:01:00.000-04:002006-08-31T11:01:00.000-04:00Haha, I can just see someone pulling the ripcord on their drag chute and flying forward off the luge as it comes to a stop within 5 feet...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157034676601428492006-08-31T10:31:00.000-04:002006-08-31T10:31:00.000-04:00Hi, I arrived via Makezine too. This looks excellent! It looks like D-Bly has no concept of doing something just for the fun of it.Pobnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1157032289663545022006-08-31T09:51:00.000-04:002006-08-31T09:51:00.000-04:00Wow! Great job! My only comment (and it would have been an offer, had I not givin it away) is that it might be fun to add a drag chute. I had a small one that I had picked up at a army surplus store that had been used for air-drops, unfortunately it's gone now. I'm sure you could find one somewhere cheap, if not have someone sew one up for you out of nylon. Might be good to have additional "emergency stopping power".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1156437327161164342006-08-24T12:35:00.000-04:002006-08-24T12:35:00.000-04:00Yes Steve it is possible. Just make sure that both hubs are made to receive the same type of gear cluster, free wheel or cassette. One screws directly to the hub and the other screws itself inside the hub. As for the axle, just make sure that the length is the same.<BR/><BR/>GerryGerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1156430179848756872006-08-24T10:36:00.000-04:002006-08-24T10:36:00.000-04:00Gerry:<BR/>Hi, Steve from Boston.<BR/>Is it possible to remove axle and sprockets from one rear wheel to another? Any help would be appreciated.<BR/>SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1156165326689409162006-08-21T09:02:00.000-04:002006-08-21T09:02:00.000-04:00For d-bly, I made this luge for myself and I didn't give a damn what people were going to think about it. The main idea was to have fun. I have a lot of respect for those who actually bomb down roads with real street luges and even more for those who do it standing up on longboards. In my country(Canada), we encourage people to join in our sport of choice, or hobbies, by any means they can. This way more people practice it, the activity evolves, it won't die off after all the hype and tv cameras are gone. I won't have to man up, cause I'm already doing that staying in one piece to support my family.<BR/><BR/>Nuff said!Gerry Lauzonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06895691996292579014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1156158171170954182006-08-21T07:02:00.000-04:002006-08-21T07:02:00.000-04:00where I come from(America) we build real luges w/ 4 or 6 wheels. And we get them going 50+mp/h(easily).So wen u guys wanna man up n come race with the big dogs build a real luge. i.e. 1 u lay down on.D-Blyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11261508940948007782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31040015.post-1155942175670096652006-08-18T19:02:00.000-04:002006-08-18T19:02:00.000-04:00Here via Make Blog, and must say, I love this idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com