crgowo
03-23-04, 04:54 PM
Was sent this article i though you guys would like to check out.
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/science/sci040322.html
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/science/sci040322.html
Bicycle Mechanics - self filling tires
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MERTON
03-23-04, 05:06 PM
sezy. do they work?
OregonBound
03-23-04, 07:39 PM
"The newly developed Air Hub is a high-end item costing 10 times as much as the company's usual products" ~From the company's web site.
I suspect this will rank right up there with the AutoBike (shifts by itself) as an invention of great complexity to solve a non-existent problem.
Paul
I suspect this will rank right up there with the AutoBike (shifts by itself) as an invention of great complexity to solve a non-existent problem.
Paul
AndrewP
03-23-04, 08:39 PM
This seems to waste a lot of energy to continuously work a bike pump which leaks most of its air through a hole in the hose. However I could see a development of this finding a market for off road bikes. Amphibious military vehicles have systems for adjusting the tire pressure according to the surface they are driving over. If a rider could adjust the air pressure on the fly, I think off road racers would pay a fortune for such a device.
d_D
03-24-04, 05:06 AM
Like all enthusiast cyclists off-roaders have a minor obsession with weight. If it adds much weight most off-roaders won't even look at it. Then there is the cost, it's another thing to break and it would have to adjust pressure very quickly to be of use.
I think it's only possible use is on a commuting bike where you want to do the minimal ammount of maintance as possible. Like a bike that you would ride from a station to your place of work then from your place of work back to the station making even pumping up a tyre a pain.
I think it's only possible use is on a commuting bike where you want to do the minimal ammount of maintance as possible. Like a bike that you would ride from a station to your place of work then from your place of work back to the station making even pumping up a tyre a pain.
LemondLouie
03-24-04, 02:38 PM
Was sent this article i though you guys would like to check out.
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/science/sci040322.html
Next we'll get a self-licking ice-cream cone.
;)
http://www.jinjapan.org/trends/science/sci040322.html
Next we'll get a self-licking ice-cream cone.
;)
Avalanche325
03-24-04, 03:09 PM
Another useless bicycle invention.
While a neat idea, as most of them are, it serves one purpose while totally disregarding the big picture. This one, however, may have a future on "comfort" bikes which are a plethora of bad ideas for the uneducated cyclist in one easy package
While a neat idea, as most of them are, it serves one purpose while totally disregarding the big picture. This one, however, may have a future on "comfort" bikes which are a plethora of bad ideas for the uneducated cyclist in one easy package