Fifty Plus (50+) - Hyperbike

Don't know how to put on a picture so you will have to...
check it out at Technovelgy.com
or maybe put Hyperbike in your search engine...
Seeing the other "novelty" things here, had to add this one.

Yeah, this was posted on a recumbent forum, too. What a laugh! I wonder how they figure that 50 mph speeds are possible? Off a cliff?

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=914

Be kind of hard to put in a bike rack wouldn't it?

One of the first things I thought of is at 50, if it actually does that, you'd have to have a close hold on the steering mechanism... but looks like fun.

Hyperbike Web Site (http://www.hyperbike.info/)

Seems like if speed is a real consideration, he wouldn't have the rider standing up. Good articles on the website. It weighs 200 lbs. I'd hate to carry it up a flight of stairs to my apartment.

Where's the water bottle cage? The cyclocomputer?

Does it come in Carbon Fiber?

Hyperbike Web Site (http://www.hyperbike.info/)
.Her is what they say about Bicycles:

"The conventional bicycle is unstable and dangerous on the road. The rider is vulnerable in traffic no matter how experienced. It is the height of danger to be balanced on two inch-wide tires with nothing between the driver and road objects. A cyclist is more vulnerable than a pedestrian by virtue of being "in" traffic, not just near it.

Cyclists are unable to travel safely at the same speed as traffic; neither can they accelerate nor stop as quickly. And, unlike the Hyperbike, a seated cyclist is reduced to using only leg muscles for propulsion."

Where's the water bottle cage? The cyclocomputer?

I think you've hit the problem square on the head!

I have to wonder about splaying the wheels that way. It has to make it rougher on the bearings and the sidewalls of the tires. I think his engineering is suspect. It's obvious from the article that he's emulating the design of a racing wheel chair without understanding why they are made that way.

Slanting the wheels that way improves things when you are trying to push the wheel from the top. Not having to reach over the wheel allows you a longer power stroke and not having to reach out so far sideways allows you to push more effectively.

I'd like to see video of this thing going the claimed 50mph. Attractive model, though.

Very aero dynamic.

Wasted the time watching the video with the inventor. What a load of crap. The pedaling motion is so un-natural and the arm cranks at shoulder height must be really effective! Will most likely get tons of grant money under the new congresses energy program.

I have not seen a logical way to steer the thing either...the video shows the front wheel in the air a lot of the time. You would not catch me going 15 mile an hour on that thing let alone 50... Play toy at most

I sent a link to a chap named Doug Self, an electrical engineer of some repute whose website includes a "Museum of Retro Tech (http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/museum.htm)" including unusual bicycles, "dicycles" (which the Hyperbike seems to be a variation on) etc. Like the one below.

We'll see if he adds it to his museum.

It's an amusing way to waste computer time.

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/oddbike/bootbicycle.jpg

Why a HPV for the moon? Solar power is readily available, air and water are not.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=914

And just think, Cheeseflavor loses a bike but saves his hide over one small crack in a seat tube. Look at that conglomeration. It probably has 100 butted joints. I think I'll wait till the Beta test version comes out. That thing looks like a cross between a vertigo chair for pilot training and a ferris wheel.

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=914

Trying to see if it's clipless!!!???!!