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The 'six degrees of separation theory' should result in a large chunk os South African twitterers being listed here.ДЇORMAT: name Full Name or alias Short description.Hopefully, your South African followers will visit here, and follow step 1 and 2.Tweet about the page, thus letting all your followers know about it.(If you live outside of SA, please tell us where!)

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This is a wiki page to try and track how many (and which) South Africans are using Twitter. Started by EveВ Dmochowska - continued by South African Twitterers. Now, because I know you guys want to hear how this thing sounds, IвЂ™ve put up this brief little video.084 Welcome to SA Twitter! Invite Key: 'twitter' Of course, once she came down the stairs I had to get her past the fact that I had doubled the capacity of the trainer room in a matter of 15 minutes.Д«ut, once that detail was settled out, it was on to the trainer she went. Based on the diagrams I could find, in the actual trainer stand from 1976, itвЂ™s basically the same concept with the rear wheel simply being held above the ground. I should note that while itвЂ™s sitting on a trainer stand, the rear wheel is fully elevated off the ground. So, with everything all set, I did a couple of test revolutions before calling down The Girl to get pedaling.

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The trick with the Wind Generator is to get enough tightness on the locking system so that it doesnвЂ™t move laterally, but still moves vertically with wind-generated force. Thankfully, I was in luck and with a bit of creativity, I had it installed: This would be a hail-mary of sorts, as after that IвЂ™d have to go around the neighborhood and find someone with a bike that would actually work with this thing. So I was down to one bike left: The GirlвЂ™s older tri bike. I then tried out a mountain bike, without luck вЂ“ same basic seat post issue. But the seat was too high, and resulted in the locking system not making it to my seat post: This eliminated half of the houseвЂ™s bikes right there.

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WellвЂ¦not terribly well, with todayвЂ™s bikeвЂ™s anyways.ДЇirst off вЂ“ any carbon seat posts that are shaped such as those on a time trial bike are immediately out. This in turn acts like a propeller and pushes down onto the tire. While on the right you have the two fans that generate force as the wheel rotates. On the left side (above, turned towards the camera) is the piece that unscrews and hooks onto your seat post. What you essentially have is a few key pieces. When it arrived, I pulled it out and admired it вЂ“ The Racermate 1976 Wind Trainer: Before I knew itвЂ¦I had shipping confirmation in my e-mail and it was on the way to me. But then again, I was never very good at predicting prices on those antique shows. Given this was the origins of the CompuTrainer, I figured it was probably worth a few Chipotle burritos in cash.Д«y time the auction closed it was up to $28, plus $10 shipping and handling. So, I tossed out an initial bid of about $11 and waited a couple days. Though, none of this would deter meвЂ¦I wanted to check this baby out. Though, later IвЂ™d find a Flickr album with a few more photos of it on a bike, but none in use. The closest thing I could find was this single diagram (yesвЂ¦thatвЂ™s the maximum resolution I could find): The problem was the patent application covered some pre-production ideas, and didnвЂ™t actually have any likeness to the final product.

It simply noted it was from 1976.ДЄfter a bit more time with the oracle of Google, I found a sum total of two photos of this deviceвЂ¦and one patent application.

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The posting included very little information about the actual вЂtrainerвЂ™, such as how to use it, or really any other details. So back three weeks ago I was somewhat confused when I saw the following pop-up in my e-mail alert:Д«ased on my fairly in depth knowledge of the CompuTrainerвЂ™s of the past decade, I didnвЂ™t have any clue what this doohickey was.

While IвЂ™m not really in the market for a 3rd CompuTrainer, IвЂ™m always entertained by the eBay listings, so I just let it be and continue to alert me daily. As IвЂ™ve mentioned in the past, I have an eBay alert setup for any time the word вЂCompuTrainerвЂ™ is listed within a description on eBay.