Gus90

I'd prefer a rocket or grenade launcher for that. Or a frickin laser!!!

toastytoad

Bumping this because I thought of some silly ideas

how about a ink filled pressurized u-lock, that way when you cut it with a grinder it spews ink all over the thief, sort of like the dummy packs the banks give armed robbers



or fill it with some sort flammable liquid that would ignite from the heat created by the grinder and catch them on fire lol

JonnyHK 

Better mounts for Ay-Up lights.

Falchoon

What's wrong with the current standard mount? Have you seen the combined AYUP/Garmin mount here?

Seems it's NLA though.

JonnyHK 

Saw that and it is very clever. Still prototype and 'home made' at the moment (albeit very damn good).

My problem is that the AyUp mount requires a lot of space and has limited options.

I want it all - Garmin, Ayup and a camera mount out the front. However, there is not enough room on the bars to do this without a lot of clashing.

My thought is that making an Ayup to GoPro adaptor would open up a huge range of options.


For the record I have my Ayup lights on my helmet at the moment.

Falchoon

Ah ok. The AYUP/Garmin combo mount was a production item for a while, a couple of mates of mine bought them but I heard there were some problems with the mount snapping or something so he stopped making them. Or perhaps AYUP or Garmin told him he couldn't make them due to copyright or something?

There is another guy Home - Raceware Direct - Custom Cycle Components based in the UK that does 3D printed Garmin mounts (not like this, more like the out-front mounts), maybe you could pitch your idea to him.

Edit: I see that he does a combined Garmin/GoPro mount already https://www.racewaredirect.co/shop/ga...e-gopro-mount/

79pmooney

A spoke that extended from the handlebars about a foot, maybe with a carbide tip. Car brushes too close? $500+ in paint plus a good marker for identification. And proof to the judge that he was indeed closer than that judge would ever want a car get to his kids.

A top tube mounted bazooka that launched a heat seeking missile that would fly up the offending tailpipe then expand and get stuck. Car stalls, rolls to a stop and stays there until the missile deflates. 20 minutes later, driver turns the key, car starts. No damage done. You're long gone.

Ben

RomansFiveEight

Some sort of CVT transmission that is as light and robust as a standard Bicycle drivetrain. (I.E., same cadence/RPM's at all times. Harder you push, faster it goes; but your cadence remains the same. Like infinite gears and you're always in the right one).

I dunno, that might be terrible. But I've always thought it would be cool to 'try' if such a contraption would ever exist.

fietsbob

Direct to Brain Image transmitter, so the Driver of a Car thinks you are an M1 Abrams Battle Tank*, or Godzilla,

and so perceive they are the vulnerable one and respect your right to the road-share, accordingly..

* preferably the Turret turned towards Them ..

Falchoon

Bioshift promises automatic gears for your bike - Cycling Weekly

RomansFiveEight

There's almost nothing similar (other than the user doesn't have to shift) between a CVT and an auto-shifting drivetrain. Fundamentally they are entirely different concepts.

The bio shift still has all of the same inherit flaws; which both make the drivetrain light, robust and simple; AND less efficient than it could be.

With a CVT (constantly variable transmission. Sometimes called constant velocity transmissions) rather than moving through independent gears you move up and down some sort of mechanism of changing the gear rations. Commonly, two cone shaped pieces attached with a belt. Instead of going from a 1:4 to a 1:5 ratio, you can go from a 1:4 to a 1:4.00000001, or straight to a 1:7 or 1:1. Essentially instead of independent gears, you have a transmission that is constantly and near infinitely varying.

in a car; it's usually programmed to keep the engine at its most efficient speed. When you press the gas, the transmission slides down to another ratio in response to the additional torque, keeping the RPMs exactly the same while you accelerate (or pull a hill, etc.). There's probably no way this would work on a bike, but if ever it could (this is a "that doesn't exist" thread after all), you would keep the exact same cadence, and the harder you pedal the faster you go. No shifting. No changing of gears. Just a gear ratio that is constantly making tiny adjustments, or large adjustments, to keep your pedaling as efficient as possible 100% of the time. As opposed to an automatic shift system which does nothing more than keep you in the most efficient gear from a list of available gears. With a CVT, nothing ever shifts.

Its hard to make it work well even in a car. But even so; it would be cool if ever possible on a bike!

Domane

The distracted driving due to texting is very simple to fix, sadly no one will push for this simple fix. All that would have to be done is to require that all cell phones when the GPS in them detects they are moving over 5 MPH the phones software disables the ability to text while in motion. The same thing can be done with the internet feature so you don't have people surfing the internet or face booking while they are driving both of which I have seen people doing as well as the ever common texting while driving.

You can make all the laws you want but people will not follow them when they know they are unlikely to get pulled over. I could care less if you can't text or surf the internet while the phone is in motion. Lets take a real long hard look at this issue, smart phones really became popular when the first iPhone came out in 2007. So that means this problem of texting while driving and surfing the internet and face booking has all picked up since 2007 or just over 7 years going into the 8th year now.

The first argument you will get from people is I use it for my work, well gee what did you do 7 years ago before this? Sorry but the I can't go without it because of work is a bogus excuse.

I go out to dinner and I have seen entire families be seated and all pull out their own smart phone and never say a word to each other, that is the parents and the children all texting, surfing the internet or face booking, now just how sad is that?

Why are others lives not as important as some yahoos ability to text or surf the internet? Heck you could even implement the same feature to disable the phone function but program it so that 911 is the only number that could be called while in motion. If an incoming call is an emergency the phone could be programmed so that the caller would push a number on their end that would push a notification to the phone letting the driver know they have an emergency phone call but it would require them to pull over and stop to make that call thereby not missing being notified of said emergency.

I see people as soon as they get in their car they are on the phone calling someone. Sorry but nothing is that important that you need to be on that phone every minute you are operating a 3,000 to 5,000 pound vehicle that when not operated with proper attention can kill innocent people.

The problem is very easy to fix, those who want to fix it contact your elected officials but they are going to fight you on this because they would be held to same standard and god forbid they can't use their phones any time they want, that is the real reason we have all this do nothing feel good laws concerning texting while driving that are next to worthless.

Domane

Second reply to this, it would be illegal for you to disrupt a signal, that is clear already in the law with the FCC. The second problem with your idea is it would not make the driver more focused on their driving it would actually make them even worse as they tried to figure out why their stupid smart phone stopped working and they would pay even less attention to their driving while they tried to figure out why their phone suddenly stopped working.

Domane

Bold replies.

Domane

The distracted driving due to texting is very simple to fix, sadly no one will push for this simple fix. All that would have to be done is to require that all cell phones when the GPS in them detects they are moving over 5 MPH the phones software disables the ability to text while in motion. The same thing can be done with the internet feature so you don't have people surfing the internet or face booking while they are driving both of which I have seen people doing as well as the ever common texting while driving.

You can make all the laws you want but people will not follow them when they know they are unlikely to get pulled over. I could care less if you can't text or surf the internet while the phone is in motion. Lets take a real long hard look at this issue, smart phones really became popular when the first iPhone came out in 2007. So that means this problem of texting while driving and surfing the internet and face booking has all picked up since 2007 or just over 7 years going into the 8th year now.

The first argument you will get from people is I use it for my work, well gee what did you do 7 years ago before this? Sorry but the I can't go without it because of work is a bogus excuse.

I go out to dinner and I have seen entire families be seated and all pull out their own smart phone and never say a word to each other, that is the parents and the children all texting, surfing the internet or face booking, now just how sad is that?

Why are others lives not as important as some yahoos ability to text or surf the internet? Heck you could even implement the same feature to disable the phone function but program it so that 911 is the only number that could be called while in motion. If an incoming call is an emergency the phone could be programmed so that the caller would push a number on their end that would push a notification to the phone letting the driver know they have an emergency phone call but it would require them to pull over and stop to make that call thereby not missing being notified of said emergency.

I see people as soon as they get in their car they are on the phone calling someone. Sorry but nothing is that important that you need to be on that phone every minute you are operating a 3,000 to 5,000 pound vehicle that when not operated with proper attention can kill innocent people.

The problem is very easy to fix, those who want to fix it contact your elected officials but they are going to fight you on this because they would be held to same standard and god forbid they can't use their phones any time they want, that is the real reason we have all this do nothing feel good laws concerning texting while driving that are next to worthless.

Copper_head

Dual wireless cyclocomputer that works, basic functions with a large readable display, backlight that stays on for night riding, USB rechargable.

vol

The OP is a one-time poster

marimorimo

Japanese cyclists have figured it out, and the solution costs very little (or even zero) money. While I was cycling on my crossbike I could hear faint bell-like sounds from the roadies passing me by. They had these on their bike:

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It's totally passive so no need to sound a bell. The sound isn't annoying at all, and is pleasant to hear.

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As for me I really want a gami-fied way of training with an indoor trainer, where you tour real spots from your screen but the only way you can go forward is by cycling. The distance and speed traveled would be based on your pedaling. I know solutions exist but they are very costly and you have to buy the whole stationary bike and machine.

It boggles my mind why nobody is yet to make an app or program that can be used on any bike or trainer. There is a somewhat similar game on (Wii Fit U) where you bike around and can even change direction but it uses the Wii Balance Board and you need to run in place which is something I cannot do in our apartment with really noisy floorboards.

Seattle Forrest

Get off my lawn.

RomansFiveEight

Hehehe.

I'm not big on the smartphone at dinner. But people are being social. More than they ever have been. Talking to friends, family, you name it. When my great grandfather was serving in WWII he sent letters back to my great grandma which arrived months after he wrote them, sometimes with half the letter blacked out by censors. And he was an officer, so he had it better than some of the other men! Today, with my little brother serving in the middle east, I can follow what he's doing on Facebook (he is trained/instructed as to what he can and cannot post. He doesn't post location, for example. At least, not unless it was temporary and it's pictures from weeks ago. He occasionally will post pictures from some cool place he visited, but only a long time after he's visited it.) I can Skype (video chat) with him. Text him. It's really cool. In fact, I can communicate with him just as much and just as well with him in the middle east, as I could when he was in Connecticut.

You could argue folks should pay attention to family during family time, and I get that. But by and large, these younger generations are not anti-social. They are actually the most social generation ever. They just do it electronically. While human touch and interaction is an essential component of our lives; we DO benefit from electronic connections. People can be good multi-taskers too. At a restaurant I've seen couples carry on committed, connected conversations whilst texting/facebooking other friends the whole time. And, I kid you know, one time I heard an old man mention to his wife how "Those kids won't last a week, they aren't even talking to each other. Just playing on their phone". Except, they held a conversation the entire time, just, also spent time on their phone. And that grumpy phrase was the only thing I heard from the elderly couple before they got up and left. They interacted with each other less than the young couple did. (though I'm sure at their age, words aren't necessary! I know many elderly couples who talk less, and communicate more.)

Nighthawk Goose

I know some of these might seem trivial, but some things I would like are:



Analogue speedo and cadence tach powered by a generator hub.

An H-pattern shifter for bikes... I have designs for this, but lack all the machinery to make it to my specs. (If you'd like to know more about this, I can take pictures of my sketches.)

Rear derailleur that can shift when stationary. I also have a design for this, but it would probably weigh 5 lbs. and double or triple the complexity.. what can I say, I enjoy Rube Goldberg devices!

BBS cup style rims. The 4 spoke, 5 spoke, triple spoke and solid block wheels are cool, but I would love to see a carbon fiber cup style wheel.

Energy storage for a generator system. Some sort of capacitor or battery system to keep voltage more constant.

A 50cc twin 4 stroke that didn't cost 4 figures or require mixing oil and gas. I love to ride, don't get me wrong... but the dinky 49cc single cylinders sound like trash and have "eh" performance, especially when motorized bicycles have so much potential!




All of these together would make a pretty sweet cross-country tourer. I'll continue to dream!

noglider 

Mechanical speedometer and tachometer shouldn't need any power at all.

Why would you want an internal combustion engine on a bike now that we have such good electric motors?

Nighthawk Goose

I don't want any mechanical drag. A generator hub will eventually be a part of my needs, but for the moment, I'm rocking a standard/bs $10 wireless speedo. The digital block numbers are ugly, and to me the elegant sweep of a needle (that can also be back-lit) is a lot more visually appealing than a boxxy, schitzo electronic unit. Realizing that there are also a lot better alternatives than my sub-par unit, I persist that none are visually appealing since the market is currently dictating a square or rectangular trend.

Why an internal combustion instead of an electric? For one, I'm not entirely Eco-conscious. To that, I would like to repeat that I only want a conventional no-mix 4 stroke twin.. no obnoxious oil burning 2 stroke unit. Second? Pure sound.

Electric is cool and certainly the wave of the future.. but I've got my preferences. Besides, it's probably easier to carry a few jerry cans across the desert than deal with batteries and charging.

noglider 

How do you plan to reconcile the contradiction of these two statements? You can say one or the other but not both.

Nighthawk Goose

Easy. The statements don't contradict if you look at it in a less critical light.

A generator creates one type of drag. The addition of a mechanical speedo creates another.

I can live with one, but I do not want or require the other.

It's a moot point regardless, but at least I stopped mashing all the time last year and finally took cycling seriously. *claps, hoorays*