Imagine designing a bicycle without triangles. Every joint needs to be overbuilt, because there's no structure from the geometry. But you make sure it still has a top tube, so its just as hard to mount and dismount as a normal bike. Incredible!
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Right? Who would be crazy enough to do that?
Next you're going to tell me someone will make one without a top tube?
Hey, look here buddy. You can't be your own comment thread and post all the plausible responses yourself like that. You're putting all the trolls out of work.
doesn't that prove their point? they all look overbuilt, as the original commenter said.
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I wonder how many revolutions the wheels will do before they bend into pretzels.
Also the pedals driving the outside of the back wheel puts a pretty heavy limit on the gear ratio
Yeah no part of that looks fun to pedal
No springs or shocks means however many it takes, it will be the most painful ass-blasting ride until they do.
I mean not necessarily. Road bikes pretty much never have any actual suspension, all the comfort comes from tire and frame flex. This bike has some fairly chunky tires on, and the way the seat post is just suspended off the back I’ll bet that frame flexes a ton.
That being said, you’d still have to fine tune the design, and get the right amount of flex in the right ways. I kinda doubt anyone choosing to make a bike like this would have the competency to do that
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Id put my money on the wheel mount failing because the whole wheel turns into a lever trying to break it every time it hits a bump.
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That looks like it would be extremely unreliable and needlessly expensive to maintain. Maybe even impossible for the average person to maintain it
It's so shit. There is a kickstarter of an ebike like that and it's worse than you van ever imagine. It's LOUD as fuck and worse in every way than a normal bike.
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This is the first step to having magnetic wheels become a thing. We know canonically Jim Kirk's motorcycle uses these, so it's definitely mainstream by ~2250.
Honorable mention: the Bell Riots happen September this year, and it seems we're on track for those too
The technology is getting there. I forget which company did it, but one has developed an insane magnetic suspension system for automobiles.
Right now the limiting factor is the energy required, so battery tech is the bottleneck.
It's a real shame shipstones haven't been figured out yet.
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The designer said the bike really "spoke" to them.
Company: how can we convince out of shape tech bros to spend $10k on a bicycle?
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Eh, I'm waiting until the seat is simply hovering in the air without any bars
Why do we need a seat when we can just Crazy Frog it
I'll never forget the day I found out crazy frog was created in my city, it's a weird mix of "god damn it" and "fuck yeah".
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Can I at least keep my pants on or is the nudity required to make this work
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As far as I can tell, this product never panned out. It was backed by 132 people to cover 150k GBP in 2017. It was called the “Cyclotron Bike”.
I'd only ride this bike if it formed a wall of coloured light behind me as I rode
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The one in the drawing also doesn't have spokes though.
[edit] Don't reply I didn't notice the drawing was modified.
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i never realized until this moment that the meme showed them putting a stick in the wheels. i always thought they just happened to fall off.
Pretty brave to admit that.
There's power in anonymity.
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Me on that bike: ah, muddy dirt road, my arc nemesis. And what's that? a random pile of dog poop, my day's ruiner.
Fancy bearings.
just curious how strong would the fork have to be to handle the forces...
Fork aside, a bike wheel's structure is based on supporting the load on the hub by hanging from the spokes at the top of the wheel. In order for that machine's wheels to not fold in half the rim would have to be incredibly heavy and slow.
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The wheels are apparently really really loud when they are mounted like this. You just can make good enough ball bearings of this size at any reasonable cost and weight
May as well be. Gotta dumb down all the other facets of society as it is
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