Rick Marland Folder on bicycledesign.blogspot.com
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photo from bicycledesign.blogspot.com This is one of the finalists from the commuter bike design contest on that blog. Interesting out-of-the-box idea, but just a bit too hi-tech for me. :) LINK: http://bicycledesign.blogspot.com/20...ke-design.html |
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Well I don't know if its all that much of an "out-of-the-box idea". I think I've seen about 8 folding bike
prototypes so far that have a circular frame theme. Circular frame bikes aren't a particularly new idea, this one is from the 1890's: |
Originally Posted by FoldingCyclist
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Well I don't know if its all that much of an "out-of-the-box idea". I think I've seen about 8 folding bike
prototypes so far that have a circular frame theme. Circular frame bikes aren't a particularly new idea, this one is from the 1890's: Th thing is that they worked pretty well. When I was a student back about 1971 I lived in Twickenham, a rather gentile outer London suburb. My girlfriend lived in Putney, rather further in - about six miles. My landlady loaned me an ancient ladies bicycle and I swear it must have been from about 1918. It was a REALLY old thing, black, quaint upright styling with an fossilised leather seat all sprung and rod brakes. Now I know there were rod brake bikes in the forties and fifties - my dad had one, but thsi was really something else - had to be at the youngest of First World War vintage. Anyway, I rode this thing night after night down to Putney and back and its single gear worked just fine if you weren't in a hurry. Happy days.... |
Originally Posted by rhm
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Compared to the other entries featured on the blog, this design is pretty much out there. It looks like something that Luke Skywalker used when he was a wee lad on Tatooine. There is no headtube, so I don't know how you could even steer the thing. Jedi Mind power?
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Originally Posted by rench123
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There is no headtube, so I don't know how you could even steer the thing. Jedi Mind power?
It's been done and proven. Google "Yamaha GTS 1000" for a production motorcycle that had this design. |
Looks like essentially the same design as Mark Sanders' X-bike; Just with different styling:
http://www.mas-design.com/x-bike.html http://www.treehugger.com/X-bike.jpg Steering is cable operated. |
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