Mountain Biking - Totally cool new ride!
Bikeforums.net is a forum about nothing but bikes. Our community can help you find information about hard-to-find and localized information like bicycle tours, specialties like where in your area to have your recumbent bike serviced, or what are the best bicycle tires and seats for the activities you use your bike for.
pinkrobe
01-21-09, 01:44 PM
Dooooods! Yo, check out this crazy shizzle! Never ride your bike up hills again! BERGMONCH (http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/01/20/bergmonch-folding-backpack-bike/)is in tha house!!!!
:roflmao:
I'm going to mod mine with a crank-driven device that will cause the rear wheel to turn. I bet nobody else thinks of that...
ca7erham
01-21-09, 02:42 PM
Well, from what my poor German skills can pick up on (based on Bergmonch's web site), its still in development. I wonder what the price will be like. Prolly a good bit to much, plus it wouldnt do me any good.
chainstrainer
01-21-09, 02:50 PM
It's okay as long as you only coast downhill on it. In the video you'll notice at the end that they cut away before the monk rides off because he wouldn't travel far across a floor that has no slope. It would be just be an expensively engineered German kick scooter at that point.
pinkrobe
01-21-09, 04:42 PM
Am I the only one who thinks this is a completely ridiculous idea?
1. Buy 2" travel FS bike from X-mart
2. Strip off the seat, cranks, shifters, make it fold in half and put straps on it
3. ????
4. Profit
Seriously, WTF?
Looks like another variation on those gawdawful 'mountain scooters' that some ski resorts were renting for a while.
I would like the footpegs for my ski-bike, though.
yellowjeep
01-21-09, 05:41 PM
I have to admit the robed monk riding the erm... scoottering? down the mountain was pretty cool
eminefes
01-21-09, 08:21 PM
That "bicycle" is an answer looking for a question.
dervish
01-22-09, 04:17 PM
i enjoy pedaling
Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.1.12 Copyright © 2013 vBulletin Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.