https://www.bikeforest.com/tread/index.php

Apologies to rainedon from the commuting forum, but if you're gonna fix something, this would be it.

Check out the video of the sweet jump.

i really, REALLY hope that's a joke

might as well just walk....

look at the air that guy got outta that shizzle

Dude, this thing is REAL. I clicked on checkout, and put in fake info, and went through like 5 screens, and nobody ever told me that this was a joke. I got as far as the part where they wanted my cc number. "Contaminants found on the earth's surface"? Please!

put some kind of 1:1 ratio on it. then it'd be completely pointless.

Oh the ratio they got there is pretty close!

it's already ****ing pointless. what a piece of ****. if you're going to ride a bike, ride a bike.

hey i have an idea. you know those stationary bikes they have in gyms? what if you made one so it would go places when you pedaled!

i think that the appeal of the machine is its pointlessness.



gawd, I feel like an idiot being so obvious.

DUDE! i can't belive no one's thought of that yet! or what about stair-masters that take you to different spots in a building?

that has got to be the most rediculous contraptions I've ever seen. Funny as hell though...

it's all 'bout the segway... fat lazy people unite!!

https://www.windstreampower.com/humanpower/hpgmk3.html

i could see that being nice if you have a desk job, or for using while you, say, read a book or something. just to keep your legs moving, with or without the power output. it's like my old drummer who'd use his double bass pedals while reading magazines.

No no no no no, my good man. If you're going to "walk" a bike...

Segway R-U-L-E-S. <Tsk tsk. Soooo stuck in the 20th century.>

Have you checked out the rest of that site? I don't think the people that brought you the Couchbike and the Hula bike are too serious about anything. The story of their Couchbike adventure is flippin' awesome.

Their BikeCAD program isn't funny, but it's brilliant and well worth a look.

do they make a tandem?

This is the funniest thing I've seen on the net in a week. Great find. I find it funny because for all the effort that goes into creating, designing, building, and actually operating the stupid thing, the guy actually managed to combine running and biking, and move SLOWER than either alone.
Adam

Indeed an invention that seems stupid, but 10+ years ago, there was this article in American Kite about these 2 french brothers who designed an inflatable "sail" that lofted itself without a mast and was sailing a catamoron with it. They called it the Wippacat. It was neither eligant, or did it offer better performance than a regular sail or a ram air power kite (which I was land sailing with at the time). I dismissed the whole thing. This stupid "sail" eventually took to flying on lines like a kite and evolved into the Wippika and its derivatives from Naish, North and Cabrina are now the staple power kite for the kitesurfing banaza. My ram air kites will still out fly, out pull, out run and out jump any of these "blimps". But damn it, everyone except a few dedicated maverick pros are flying those wippiabortions. Those 2 frogs are rolling in whatever currency they are excahnging these days.