Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

No, it was elsewhere as a thread starter.

I feel a merge coming on.

Ha, I should have searched for 'dailymail.co.uk' or something.

I assume anything in Rapha, LCC, Parker, Wiggle, or any other common cycling-related email newsletters will be posted by at least 5 different people immediately after their receipt.

Found it, thanks:

http://www.lfgss.com/post1515058.html

Hard to find stuff if there's nothing else in the post. I searched for 'bendy', 'foldable', the designer's name, 'Daily Mail', and 'lamp post', but nothing came up.

I just pm Hippy before starting a new thread. I've got 328 pm's in my inbox all containing one word - reeeeepost

Hat's off.

Very good idea. I wish I had thought of it.

Not only is it good for security, it is also great for transport.

Gonna get himself a good job, possibly even a large manufacturer.

Forget the shite protoype, once it is 700c with a cult brand it'll fly.

I'd suggest less links in the tube, but still using the cam.

Chapeau.

the fella's getting around a bit......
http://www.mexicofixed.com/

its a good starting point and an awesome end to a degree,

i don't think it will ever go into production but it will get him into a good job, much like my friends bike ideas did last year (http://www.jamiedouglas.org/) but will never be produced

anyway the idea is good and its form that development will happen its interesting take on a folding bike.

Yeh, but he is riding a freewheeling, brakeless bike; with 2 QR wheels. So what if you can lock it round a post, the wheels will be gone in seconds, that is; If you can make it to he nearest lamppost alive....

Kevin Scott, 21, designed the space-age bike that wraps around a lamp post so it can be locked-up safely - without the need for a lock or chain.

The De Montfort University graduate used a ratchet system built into the frame of the bike to allow it to wrap around a pole, enabling the lock to be wrapped through both wheels and the frame
So it is a bike that can be locked without a lock but you need a lock to do so.

Journalism fail

Jet Bike

http://gizmodo.com/391602/the-75-mph-bicycle-thats-powered-by-a-jet-engine

Deputy Overlord Hippy, can we shift this back to Bikes & Bits rather than General?

damn i want a go on the jet-bike!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEeF5lxlTDk

Cork Helmet

http://www.stilsucht.de/07/2010/cork-to-be-alive/

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It might be all be a bit ProductDesignStudentWankery at the moment but someone, somewhere will invent something awesome (many, many crap Daily Mail articles later).

Why stop innovating just because we like the bikes we have at the moment?

A graduate at Brunel this year designed an expanding chainring as a new way to change gear. Not quite fully developed but it looked awesome and got him the prize for the best major.

I think that was done in the early 80s when there was an attempt at automatic gear changes.

Then along came mountain bikes and indexing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7y3qIQu3Gc

http://web.mit.edu/press/2009/copenhagen-wheel.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_XEgGQBkQ

http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/08/05/contortionist-foliding-bike-rolls-up-smaller-than-a-wheel/

A graduate at Brunel this year designed an expanding chainring as a new way to change gear. Not quite fully developed but it looked awesome and got him the prize for the best major.

Just saw it on the core77 homepage, sweet

http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/id_student_chris_holloways_invention_one-ups_bicycle_engineers_16962.asp

Sounds pretty cool, but one thing I'd be worried about right away is its locking method - how does it hold itself into a particular gear? Mechs now don't take the force, the rings themselves do. This, by being both mech and ring, needs to have a pretty secure method of maintaining it's "size."

Really really old idea. Been arround since 80s. Documented, with diagrams, in "Bicycling Science", MIT press.
I've a copy if you want to take a look, horatio.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4878883.pdf

I think that was done in the early 80s when there was an attempt at automatic gear changes

Expanding chainrings have been around since the 19th Century

In 1901 he came on the four-speed proteon gear of the English Whippet. Here, the changes were made by the expansion of a split chain wheel. Partial reverse rotation of the pedals caused cams to open the two halves of the chain wheel and secure them in any one of the four positions by pawls.
http://cycling.ahands.org/bicycling/velocio.html

YouTube- FOSS tube

Want.

I thought I'd resurrect my project-thread.

This is a pretty awesome idea, if totally impractical.

YouTube - Making-Of sicherstes Fahrradschloss

It's in German, so I apologise to everyone but Schick.

cannot for the life of me find that disc wheel with the pattern on the side that changed with how fast you were. so if you were slow the outside looked stationary and if you were fast the inside did. looked like a barcode. called a king disc or something. help me out!