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Bed race

660 views · Published 16 October 2011 · 1:15 · Indexed 23 October 2026

Channel: oisiaa · 2011 · Entertainment

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This was my idea of how to enter a bed race. I wanted to minimize rolling resistance so I chose two bicycles as the platform. All in all it worked great, but our team didn't have time to practice so there were some problems.

Notice the turnaround; the inside pusher shouldn't really be pushing because it is causing the "bed" to skid around the corner. Also, the oversize mattress is dragging against the rear tire on the home stretch. 

The independent steering actually worked quite well. You could emulate "Ackerman steering geometry" quite easily which made cornering efficient. The two bikes weren't perfectly aligned which caused some steering divergence so you had to hold the handlebars firmly. At high speeds it wanted to shimmy pretty badly which again required a firm grip and some muscle power to overcome. It would also be easy to damage one of the front wheels if you let go because it would want to instantly turn 90º to the direction of travel which could easily buckle the spokes. Fortunately that didn't happen.

The brakes functioned so I used the front brake of the right bike and the rear brake of the left bike.

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