That looks like it would be extremely unreliable and needlessly expensive to maintain. Maybe even impossible for the average person to maintain it
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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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.
Yeah but looks cool! /s
I mean it does look cool.
Next time I have a bunch of extra cash to throw at a decorative art piece I'll consider it
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
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!
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.
Carbon fiber, aerodynamics...
For this one it's used as suspension (not carbon fiber)
Not that rare in old mountain bikes either, pretty sure my old steel Raleigh was similar
Carbon fiber has very limited lifetimes when used for something with a lot of hard impacts, so if you're not sticking to smooth surfaces the bike can literally split apart with little warning
Eh...
Modern mountain bikes? Hell, they make car and motorcycle wheels out of it...
I Googled "motorcycle carbon fiber wheel" and autocomplete immediately suggested adding "failure" and doing that search has endless relevant results
Ok, maybe with a magnetic linear drive?
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.
then what did you think the point of the meme was ?
One of today's 10000?
I wonder how many times someone has learned something new and then the first reply they read was a link to that comic and they discovered that, too?
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
Can I at least keep my pants on or is the nudity required to make this work
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”.
Wait, I'm confused. Does it have tires or is that just a big ring of plastic?
From the video it looks like the plastic rings are casings and the wheels are inside them, and the wheels poke out at the bottom. Seems dumb to me.
You can kind of see it here but it looks like they're intentionally hiding a good view of it with angles/lighting:
What happens when you ride through mud?
You ride into the mud. Not so much out of the mud.
Yeah why do we need another bicycle?
Also how does peddling move the wheels...? Missing something.
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