hubless. chainless bike
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richtotheie at 11.8.07 - 12:05 pm
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http://www.kancept.com/kancepts/show/nulla_bike--190
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Hooray for gimmicks!
I totally want to talk mad shit about that thing, but if someone had one I would totally ask them to let me ride it around.
City Hobgoblin11.8.07 - 12:09 pm
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Woah, what's up with those wheels? How much?
Joe Borfo11.8.07 - 12:32 pm
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My favorite part is the risers. lol
What the hell is going on with that thing?
kyber11.8.07 - 12:38 pm
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It looks like one of the robots from the movie I, Robot. I'd like to see Will Smith kick it's ass.
City Hobgoblin11.8.07 - 12:39 pm
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check out the risers,,no spokes ,,that shits looks like an accident ready to happen.
skano11.8.07 - 12:41 pm
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it's just a concept by a design student, and not exactly a new one either.
The problem with such designs is that a hollow circle is easy to bend (think what happens to your wheel when you break a spoke) so unless the wheel is a disk, there are issues, and if the wheel is a disk, you might as well have a hub and stuff.
There's a reason some things have'nt changed in 150 years...
FuzzBeast11.8.07 - 12:53 pm
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Now this is a cool bike:
Zero Bike
"Zero Bike" is designed by Makota Makita and Hiroshi Tsuzaki from Tokyo, Japan. The bike is a hubless, spokeless and very lightweight bicycle powered by cranking magnetic pedals which rotate the tires suspended between other magnets. It has won a design excellence award by the Industrial Design Society of America.
Its design is based on the principle of magnetic superconductivity, also used in high-speed trains that are suspended above rails.
I still don't understand it yet...
Joe Borfo11.8.07 - 12:58 pm
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OTOH this is doable.
Make my word, one day foldies will rule the earth!!
Well that and public transportation.
User111.8.07 - 1:01 pm
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More reverse-engineered, Asgard technology.
And the worse part is General O'neill's worst fear.
They're all controlled by magnets!!
Now, a bike designed to move like an Amoeba, that would be feat to be achieved.
bentstrider11.8.07 - 10:38 pm
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