Bike or scooter? (Freeze Frame).What do you get when you cross a mountain bike with a snowboard snow·board n. A board resembling a small surfboard and equipped with bindings, used for descending snow-covered slopes on one's feet but without ski poles. intr.v. and a scooter scooter: see motorcycle. ? The hybrid machine (below) dubbed dub 1 tr.v. dubbed, dub·bing, dubs 1. To tap lightly on the shoulder by way of conferring knighthood. 2. To honor with a new title or description. 3. the Diggler by inventor Rob Fruechtenicht. Ride it down mountain trails like a bike or a snowboard--either way, it offers an easier, safer, and faster trip. Why is the Diggler a breeze? "It's got physics on its side," says Fruechtenicht. Stability is key. Unlike a bike or standard scooter, the Diggler's 63.5 centimeter centimeter (sĕn`tĭmē'tər), abbr. cm, unit of length equal to 0.01 meter, the basic unit of length in the metric system. The centimeter is the unit of length in the cgs system. It is approximately equal to 0. (25 inch)-long riding surface, or deck, is below its two wheel axles. This makes it harder to tip over. "The closer a rider's weight is to the ground," Fruechtenicht explains, "the lower her center of gravity [the point around which a rider's mass is balanced]." So even if a rider leans hard on a turn, her low center of mass coupled with gravity's downward force helps restore her to an upright position Upright position or erect position, in a frequency-division multiple access multiplexer, means that a signal is upconverted to the multiplexer band without inverting the frequencies. See inverted position. , much like a weighted punching bag rebounds after it's knocked over. What makes it speedy? Like a snowboard, a Diggler deck has a slick plastic base to help slide it over bumps and reduce speed-eating friction (rubbing) with the trail. --L. A. |
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