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
That top one is kinda sexy ngl
The meme shows only bikes with flat handlebars, like commuter bikes intended for transportation.
Every bike you posted are high performance racing bikes with specialized aerodynamic handlebars.
Different priorities. Triangless bikes with a top bar is not a good idea for commuter bicicles like the ones in the meme.
I still showed that it’s perfectly possible to build a bike without a seat tube, hell I’m sure we can find 90s examples that weren’t high performance bikes.
I’m picturing this being carbon fiber and the top tube snapping at the bend.
At compressing part of bend. If I remember correctly, carbon fibers are good at handling tensile loads and terrible at compression loads.
This guy does not engineer.
Nah, but that tube is a little lowered, enough to make a difference.
Tube is not a line.
Company: how can we convince out of shape tech bros to spend $10k on a bicycle?
Only 10k for full suspension futuristic looking bike, that’s a bargain tbh :D
You mean 0 suspension?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying this is good, I’m just saying that bike industry is so insane that 10k for a bike wouldn’t raise any eyebrows.
I’m learning a lot about how much money can be wrung out of rich idiots for some shaped aluminum and two tires.
that is pretty much my impression about these bikes too. Bought for couple 10Ks, used twice.
The designer said the bike really “spoke” to them.
I prefer bespoke bikes.
Eventually you’ll have to go custom for that
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
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Oh I’m sure it’d be quite hard. But that’s a future engineer’s problem lol
Eh, I’m waiting until the seat is simply hovering in the air without any bars
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
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.
😞
What is this bullshit? Bike in post makes more semse than this.
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.
You know there’s a relavent XKCD.
Then send it
I haven’t clicked it. One of the 10 thousand?
Yep
May as well be. Gotta dumb down all the other facets of society as it is
Not exactly dumbing down, I guess removing components which are redundant after redesigns
Fancy bearings.
*The coolest looking concept bike ever created.
Lemmings: hold my beer while I list every complaint I can think of about this design
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.
Is this an AI bicycle or a Dyson bicycle?
I suppose either way it sucks.
And very very expensive.
People who buy these things deserve poverty.
I thought it looked neat.
:-|
They totally look neat, but functionally, they would suck as bicycles (at least with current technology)
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).
Is looking cool important?
In cycling? Super duper important.
Broke: How many times will I need to repair this bike over a lifetime of ownership?
Woke: How many people will stare at me as I’m biking?
Bespoke: How many times will this bike get me laid?
For the last one it’s more competitive than you think. I’ve gotten laid thanks to a bike people didn’t even see. Gets you an ass that does wondets
I don’t think this will work on the long run.
First, the hold on the rim must be very tight and precise or the wheel will wobble like mad.
Second, such a tight hold will be very sensitive to any kind of dirt, so it has to be sealed.
Any seal tight enough to keep extremely small dirt out will cause loads of friction.
Tight seals in general is not an option, they exist en masse with e.g. hydraulic cylinders. But for them, the friction is basically a non-issue in comparison to the overall power budget. But I cannot imagine an even halfway free wheeling wheel that will not break down after getting in contact with a bit of sand.
