Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

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You've been taken down to Merge town.

http://youtu.be/1pWYu8t5o4o

Brilliant, apart from the fact that it's heavier and more expensive than a D-Lock, can't be used with your other bike, and you'd be carrying the frame home from some neighbourhoods as your wheels would be gone by the time you left the pub.

People who design integrated bike locks would be more useful standing on street corners guarding other people's bikes.

Yea, but they can't steal your seatpost!

http://m.cyclingnews.com/features/tech-bmc-impect-concept-machine-revealed

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http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/tech-bmc-impect-concept-machine-revealed

Neat, but the bar/lever integration hurts my eyes.

this looks for better

http://www.efneo.com/en/transmission/

I don't get it. How does it work?

horrible website anyway

@hippy Like a Truvativ Hammerschmidt but using all three possible ratios from a single set of planetary gears, where the Hammersmith only uses two

http://www.roadbikereview.com/reviews/eurobike-mc2-big-wheel-bike-debuts-at-eurobike

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Cough, cough... Penny Farting...cough!

But not stupid high, not fixed and with things like brakes that work. Interesting.

Wouldn't it rub against the inside of your legs when cornering?

You only turn the wheel at low speed. Anything above 10kph or whatever is leaning.
#dontlean

brakes that work

A spoon brake on an Ordinary already works too well, resulting in an endo. The same goes for the twin discs on that mostrosity, albeit without the face-destroying descent from 6' up.

So like I said brakes that work, is slow you down, not insert your face into the road.

Weight might be back enough on that new thing to not endo.

You can endo on a Safety of conventional geometry with normal rim brakes, that thing will start tipping at about half the rate of acceleration you can achieve on a normal bike. It might still be twice the rate achievable on an Ordinary, which is why we all ride Safeties now.

So you can park it the same way he does on the video outside the shop without even getting off the thing. #genius !

More here: http://www.slowtwitch.com/Products/A_detailed_look_at_the_Ueberbike_4550.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FdIZXH4idw

http://www.lopifit.nl/

Wonder if moonwalking makes you go backwards on that thing.

For better.

http://www.bikerumor.com/2014/09/06/eb14-the-amazing-frictionless-chosen-smart-hub-freehub-spins-freely-in-both-directions/