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- Have you got any questions for Mike regarding his Soup Dragon bicycle? Write it in the comments below.
Mike burrows has a new and improved soup Dragon,check out this premier of Mike's new creation.And in episode two we will see if its as fast as it looks.
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"This might, or might not, be a problem."
I love the honesty.
Mike Burrows is one of the most amazing designers of bicycles and human powered vehicles. I have been fascinated by his work for over twenty years. Thank you for documenting this project and this incredible human being.
I miss Mike Burrows man :(
As someone who hopes to build HPV for the rest of my life I am sad I never got the chance to meet him in person.
HOWEVER. I have to say thank you to the wonderful work that you do at Velo-ads- without you my man we would never have gotten these in depth insights into the genius behind the man that was Mike.
Thank you for doing what you do ❤
Mike is a bicycle genius, not only a designer but an expert fabricator. Thanks for video and the update with with bicycling 's grand master.
Lovely to see this recent footage of the founder of my dads inspiration for recumbents and his European success in 1976 on the 400m with your windcheetah. In his turn my dad inspired me to make lots of summer holiday travels on my recumbent together with my girlfriend. I heard a lot of good stories about Mike and was very glad this turned up in my TH-cam feed. Keep up your legendary work Mike, you deserve such a record! All the best.
I met Mike Burrows in the mid90-s at the (then) Eastway Cycle Circuit.
I was riding one of his creations - a first generation Giant TCR I still own and ride in triathlons.
As I rode past the start/finish line Mike waved me over - “I designed them “ he said -
“ I know, you’re Mike Burrows - I THOUGHT it was you ! Wow! What are you doing here? I love my TCR - it’s brand new!”
And he said “it’s the first one I’ve seen on the road in the UK!”.
We chatted about it - the compact frame was a new design idea, now common, and then I hung around to watch him and his club-mates in the human-powered vehicle club, ride a huge variety of recumbents and differing designs , blasting round old classic 1-mile circuit at totally ridiculous speeds!
Happy days - thanks for bringing back the memory.
Tell Mike I love my first proper race bike, and it’s still going strong (bar the original wheels with weird plastic spokes... sorry Mike, they had to go!)
I had the tremendous pleasure of meeting Mike some 25? years ago at a human powered vehicle meeting in Wolverhampton (I think). Mike is an amazing engineer / inventor and it brings me genuine pleasure to see him still designing unusual bicycles! I still have a Windcheetah recumbent that he designed and built.
Could that have been the European HPV championships in 1991? I was there on a western Europe bike tour.
What a wonderful guy. Nice to finally hear Mick. Thanks for a wonderful video @velo-ads
When I was into cycling many years ago Mike Burrows was legendary with his recumbent bicycle. I cant wait to see how fast in goes.
What a fabulous project from the master wizard of bicycles!
Fantastic - looking forward to the next instalment
Good to see another bloke in a shed chasing speed. I would get another opinion on the top-rear of the body as it looks too round to me or have your virtual wind tunnel guy try this. A center strake would blend the converging turbulent airflow & virtually detach the junction point behind the body significantly reducing drag. The back is more important than the front but there is more to be had there too. The air hole will create less drag if it is extended forward with a thin wall tube & the length of that tube would need to be determined relevant to your speed to create the best air pressure shape transition. The air will find it's own shape for easiest path, you just need to find that length. My world is in the 400+ range but the principals are the same at 50.
So many knowledge bombs, the steering, 140 mm cranks, glass fairing, the kevlar, etc
The frame is structurally very elegant, i'm very impressed! I like the crank too and the funky steering solution.
"Honey, you'll never believe what I crashed into on the road just this morning."
"A chicken?"
"A bloody pickle."
"A pickle?"
"A bloody pickle."
Brilliant. Simple genius. No frills attached!
The beauty and enchantment of being alive discovering exploring and sharing with those of us who dream along with Mike. Cheerio and good luck-waiting for the next episode in your journey. Thanks for sharing Ross
Nutty professors at work. I love it!
RIP Mike Burrows
Love this guy! I wanna be like Mike
Mike doesn't sleep, he just thinks with his eyes closed.
I thought he might get stuck inside that thing. He's always dreaming up something wierd & fast.
It's been years since I spoke to Mike at shows & events (well, mostly I was listening). I always learned something from him.
His imagination & originality is wonderful.
awesome stuff. thanks for the bike tour. and i thought i was too old for building random bikes, maybe i will keep on building. nothing this awesome though
Great to see MikeB on TH-cam. I first and last met Mike in 1982 at recumbent festival in Hull Quebec (Canada). He was on an early - and very red - version of the Speedy and I was on an early version of my rear steered "Thebis" trike (one wheel in front). It took me a few more iterations - and years - to perfect rear steering on a trike and I never was able to get it to work well enough at low speed (less than 10 mph) on a two wheeled recumbent. Which leads me to wonder how well front steering on the Soup Dragon will work in the absence of "trail" to keep the vehicle going in the desired direction and provide the all-magical lean-steer effect we all take for granted. Looking forward to your next instalment!
RIP Mike, you will always be missed.
How exciting! I am expecting greatness here.
Daaaaaamn that is a wicked looking machine
It's a cucumber, isn't it. Thank you for sharing !
Excellent video I learn something new every video keep them coming!
Amazing stuff. Could see these being popular in the future
Thanks and super creative! Go go go mike!
This guy is awesome!
Amazing Vehicle!
Absolute mad lad
Fantastic love this, love the channel. Have been binge watching, keep it up great stuff!
Nice one Mike..
Amazing machine! I was waiting to see how you got back out of that space!
Am really looking forward to seeing the first trial runs!
Incredible!!
just......incredible !
Hope your rear wheel doesn’t scalp you, Mike. I see danger.
That looks absolutely brilliant. I hope that will appear in Mike's next book. Only just cracked the 1 I got a couple of days ago.
The lack of trail and rake scares me somewhat. I built a trike a number of years ago and disn't worry about either of those as I was an absolute novice. At about 40kmh it became an absolute deathtrap with how fidgety it became. That weekend I got the grinder and welder out and did some tweaking.
I find it astounding that he’s built that whole bike and got others involved with the design and production of an aerodynamic body - without addressing the most fundamental question of bicycle front wheel design geometry.
However, surely these questions have been answered a long time ago, and your experience was not only the common experience of every caster wheel equipped tea trolly and supermarket trolley pusher on the planet, it’s an inevitability.
There’s a point where British eccentricity becomes rather silly.
brilliant... thank you!
Even for an HPV designer Mike is extreme. He's a cycling Gadalf, but with even more imagination.
Fabulous!
I can't wait to see it running!
Link to my video of this bike (Soup Dragon) at Battle Mountain 2018: th-cam.com/video/0a7usJV_xDo/w-d-xo.html Lots more videos on my channel re testing aerodynamics of the bike at the Boardman wind tunnel etc. Good on Mike for getting the bike back up and running and seeing what it'll do...I'm still skeptical re the front end geometry (or lack there-of) but Mike may just prove me wrong :)
What a fantastic work of engineering there. I hope he has something to stops his hair being pulled into that rear wheel though - it looked mighty close to it when he did the little test ride.
Well that was awesome!!
Very nice indeed ...🍺
I want this bike! I love it when it's unfaired 😍
That looks like a pleasant way to spend a century on a hot, humid day
The man is a genius!
Love it.
Nothing too complicated for Mike. No gears, front wheel drive. The big Green Flying Machine. We are all waiting for the ''Test Ride'' . Thanks John and Mike.
Very nice vehicle. Can it build one for tall people as well?
Wow! Restless Mike!
Very Impressive
Amazing video. Thank you all.
An aerodynamic periscopic viewing system might help visibility. Or a vr camera system like they use in racing drones.
I like to get a benefit out of my exercise. I believe that exercising your legs with your heart at the same horizontal level is not the same as with the heart above the legs.
That’s what I tell swimmers all the time
A giant pea pod on two wheels hmmm fantastic idea
Mike B, I find it astounding that you’ve built that whole bike and got others involved with the design and production of an aerodynamic body - without addressing the most fundamental question of bicycle front wheel design geometry.
However, surely these questions have been answered a long time ago, and the experience of every caster wheel equipped tea trolly and supermarket trolley pusher on the planet, is not only the common experience, it’s an inevitability.
There’s a point where British eccentricity becomes rather silly.
Please conduct some basic tow tests behind a car before attempting a BBC style jeopardy/fail speed attempt.
I like the idea of landing gear on recumbent. That's nice. By the way, I see the problems. Looks at 5:45 if rider have long hairs, it probably got sucked in by rear tires.
Cut them
Emmet Brown has nothing on this man :0 Loved his Giant models
back to the future has nothing on this...marvellous workshop genius in action.
Can we see a video with Glenn Thompson, I'd like to see and hear about the aerodynamics. thanks for the video:)
9k subs yesterday i saw it change
Heath Robinson has nothing on Mike - my new favourite nutty professor type - kudos for bringing him to us John
was looking for mention of Heath...i'll promise not to look at my students' prototypes as amateurish ever again...
@@global_nomad. lol
now thats a missile
great vid john
amazing, I got the new book, it is great :)
This is what thunderbird 2 looked like when it was just a tadpole :)
with just his little test run you can sense the speed potential!
I love the name 'Soup Dragon'
I have ridden an aeroproject streamliner with one landing gear. I suggest building two landing gears like stephen slade has in the beano. with one Landing gear the chance to fall to the side over the landing gear is very high.
Can you move the steering to the back wheel? This could allow more range.
Awesome job! But to have a shot at the world record it should be built for someone like Todd Reichert, other factors being equal. Yet again, with so many people being proud of their consumerist skills, Mike will stand out for a long time.
Congrats on the negative result. I know how amazing that feels, I had about 4 positive clops. So positive for HPV and precancerous cells for over 2 years... 🤗
I've been negative for 3 years now. I hope yours continues staying negative.#drodia
@ 2:53 when he says "when Mikes finished repairing bloody broken bicycle frames" I presume he is referring to Mike Nelthorpe of HQ Fibre?
is the window small just to reduce weight?
50 mph is insane speed for man powered land machine...
It needs to be named the pickle
hi,how are you make the wheels .... in carbone ?
what happened to the collaborative Autodesk generative redesign?
I was thinking a similar bike chassis with hydraulic piston to move the steering so it'd have 2-wheel steering.
But my bike design is between recumbent and up-stand positions, it's like chopper, the pedal is right above front wheel and can be transmitted to back wheel without touching the legs, seat is at the same level where rear wheel ends and you don't lie down, just a lil' lean back (100° sitting angle) i can't work on it anyday and don't have a workshop except the balchony in an apartment. Glad to see other designs proceeding.. well done
*the reason I chose that position is because I do think recumbents are best position when it comes to comfort and aerodynamics, but it's too low in traffic you're invisible and require a flag. I just can't see nobody working on in-between positions.
WOW
I would DEFINITELY want a camera and screen! The field of view through that window is going to be scarily narrow!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. An FPV setup as used on drones would do wonders.
For the life of me, I don't see how this thing could STEER.
I wonder what would happen if you fitted the most gas efficient engine for power on it? why has no one combine the human powered vehicles with non human power?
This guy looks so British
this thing looks like a tic tac. that looks both very comfy to ride because recumbent, and horribly cramped.
so I saw this bike on Autodesk, it was run in 2018, so is this a refined design or is this a really old video?
Mike has refined the design.
anyone who's done jig-saw... will know... this is part of several moments in time....
Make up your mind : fastest bicycle ever created or fastest bicycle Mike built?
The best aerodynamic design naturally is in Walnut;!try with your fan on walnut against suit dragon model prototype you will be suprised with differences;!
I'm pickle Rick!
I’m a pickle Morty!
he made a pedal powered pickle.
Will Mike be taking this new bike to the world speed championships at Battle Mountain?
I will ask.
wouldnt wanna get your hair caught in that wheel there
...a orange net is needed... ;-)