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[–] Hildegarde@lemmy.world 153 points 5 months ago (5 children)

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!

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 90 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Right? Who would be crazy enough to do that?

Next you're going to tell me someone will make one without a top tube?

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 99 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (8 children)

doesn't that prove their point? they all look overbuilt, as the original commenter said.

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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah why not keep the seat tube and delete the top tube?

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 96 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I wonder how many revolutions the wheels will do before they bend into pretzels.

[–] Dabundis@lemmy.world 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Also the pedals driving the outside of the back wheel puts a pretty heavy limit on the gear ratio

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago

Yeah no part of that looks fun to pedal

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 months ago

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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[–] EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 80 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That looks like it would be extremely unreliable and needlessly expensive to maintain. Maybe even impossible for the average person to maintain it

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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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[–] AirDevil@lemmy.world 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

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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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The designer said the bike really "spoke" to them.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Company: how can we convince out of shape tech bros to spend $10k on a bicycle?

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[–] anarchist@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Eh, I'm waiting until the seat is simply hovering in the air without any bars

[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 52 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Why do we need a seat when we can just Crazy Frog it

[–] Muscar@discuss.online 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can I at least keep my pants on or is the nudity required to make this work

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[–] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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”.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago (7 children)
[–] Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

I'd only ride this bike if it formed a wall of coloured light behind me as I rode

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[–] NaoPb@eviltoast.org 23 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

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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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Dozzi92@lemmy.world 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty brave to admit that.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

There's power in anonymity.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

then what did you think the point of the meme was ?

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 16 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago

Fancy bearings.

[–] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 months ago (5 children)

just curious how strong would the fork have to be to handle the forces...

[–] hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

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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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (4 children)

May as well be. Gotta dumb down all the other facets of society as it is

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[–] Turun@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago

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

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