*The coolest looking concept bike ever created.
Lemmings: hold my beer while I list every complaint I can think of about this design
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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Yeah why do we need another bicycle?
Also how does peddling move the wheels...? Missing something.
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You could also cover the spokes or use a spokeless single wall design. I do think a design like this would need to be cleaned a lot.
Ok, maybe with a magnetic linear drive?
Is there any regime where this is more efficient than spokes? I'd imagine that at high speed there's an aerodynamic advantage (possibly similar to a track/TT disk wheel?), but I can't imagine the bearings being better than current bikes. But bearing loss might (???) just scale linear with speed, so probably a win from aero in the end. But this isn't counting weight, which I imagine is worse (but doesn't matter much at high speed on flat ground).
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The complexity of this design cannot be outspoken.
Needs blue or orange neon lights
Nah; you just have to jam the stick through the tire itself so it gets caught at the part that is spinning the wheel.