Date: 21/05/2012 00:17:13
From: roughbarked
ID: 157384
Subject: re: May Chat
Skunkworks said:
party_pants said:
Having used one of those mowers, attaching it to a bicycle wouldn’t work. It needs a big shove to spool it up to speed, they draw back, pause and give it another big shove. Riding it around on a bike won’t get it spooling up fast enough.
And they are only really good on manicured and maintained lawns. It would kill you to use one to keep my weeds down.
If the blades are kept adjusted properly and the lawn never allowed to get long the pushbike mower would work but you’d have to be in low gear.. I doub’t there is enough torque available from a single speed standard bike gearing.