Yale's spokeless bike
02-18-10, 12:13 AM
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Yale's spokeless bike
02-18-10, 12:33 AM
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Cool, or totally pointless?
02-18-10, 12:47 AM
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They ain't engineers yet. But it's a cool idea. Notice the double chainrings, I assume the first links to the second on the left hand side and then the right hand side one finally drives the wheel, it doubles the gearing, but as you are putting the rotational energy into the edge of the wheel, not the center, you need that shiiite to spin like a muthafooker
02-18-10, 07:07 AM
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You gonna eat that?
It was just an engineering project, not any kind of real new development. It's already been discussed in Bicycle Mechanics.
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Yale is rather late to the game.
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wait, how does Yale differ from Harvard? are they the hipster bikesters?
very cool - not sure if there's any advantage but why not reinvent the wheel I say!
I have 3 fire escapes ladders based on a Harvard student's prototype!
I look forward to seeing this bike in the next futuristic movie!
very cool - not sure if there's any advantage but why not reinvent the wheel I say!
I have 3 fire escapes ladders based on a Harvard student's prototype!
I look forward to seeing this bike in the next futuristic movie!
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What size hammer do I need to true the rim?
02-18-10, 01:42 PM
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You gonna eat that?
It was just a college assignment, not an attempt to design your next bicycle. I like the original study better than the hubless designs pictured, if only because it functions, while most of those are just aesthic studies that wouldn't work in the real world.
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Yet it makes the national news. Slow day, I guess.
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+1 Aptly put. Probably the same person said,
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
But then, I know some fool developed a ball dancing partner robot (and it was on IEEE magazine). That's even more of that. May be it's the tendency of this era.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
But then, I know some fool developed a ball dancing partner robot (and it was on IEEE magazine). That's even more of that. May be it's the tendency of this era.
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