Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

Love this:

http://www.gizmag.com/koala-magnetic-bicycle-bottle/26043/?utm_source=Gizmag+Subscribers&utm_campaign=2bbd6b650e-UA-2235360-4&utm_medium=email

How do they work?

Magnets innit?

Yes, but how do they work?

P.S. no foot retention!

OK it's not a bike but it is bike related innovation...more here

The foot rest seems redundant, the leaning post is already a thing in NL isn't it?

We have a lot of posts over here yes, but I don't believe we have any specific for cyclist.

I was thinking of this:

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exactly!

Don't you have those in the UK?

No

The foot rest seems redundant, the leaning post is already a thing in NL isn't it?

They are beginning to get common, just that specific design isn't idea as you have to scoot to that stand instead of this "railing";

Still, overcrowded bicycle lane in the NL is starting to be a problem, first time I've been in a "bicycles jam" which I never thought exist.

They really ough to removed the law stating it's illegal to ride on the road if there's a lane within vicinity.

Its an oldie and a repost. But I always liked this.

http://www.happygolucky.no/wp-photos/20060616-111411-1.jpg

http://theurbanearth.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/varios-subindo.jpg

Haha please tell me that humans have not gotten THAT lazy.

Can be useful for some, i.e. the elderly whom would not attempt such hill.

Any difference to escalator? Las Vegas sprung to mind.

Haha please tell me that humans have not gotten THAT lazy.

No, they've always been. :)

Haha please tell me that humans have not gotten THAT lazy.

Any journey which can be done by bicycle can be done on foot, albeit at about 4 times the energy cost. Therefore, the bicycle is already a prime example of mankind's laziness.

Haha please tell me that humans have not gotten THAT lazy.

Pretty sure thats Trondheim, Norway.

Some of the urban hills in west coast Norway are pretty hardcore. Mrs Smallfurry grew up on the top of one, and quit cycling long before she even hit her teens. Its about inclusion. You shouldnt need to be a polka dot jersey candidate, to intergrate a bicycle into your day to day transport, and leisure needs.

Not ranting at you. Just agree with the idea.

^ yep, I think it's a great idea.

Hipster holding aloft a sub-5kg bike: check. Same bike held aloft by a 6 year-old girl: check. I'd like to ride it just to see how it feels but it is pretty ugly if you ask me.

http://www.stilsucht.de/02/2013/blackbraid/

Hmmm, pretty ugly is an understatement; wouldn't ride if you paid me for it.

Bike's not that bad. Dude looks a bit like Aram.

sub-5kg

Could have been sub-10lb if they hadn't needed to massively overbuild the mono-stays. It's now over 20 years* since Mike Burrows showed the correct way to build a single sided rear end - chainstay goes in between the sprocket and the wheel - why has this idiot not learned from it by now?

*Closer to 30 since Elf sorted it out on their GP bike project.

Have you got a photo of the Mike Burrows rear end? I can't remember whether I've seen it or not...

googling brought up that old NoFork concept bike from a year or so ago - whatever happened to that, eh?