Concept Bikes & Bike Innovation - for better or worse

That. Is. Awesome.

Akira meets Short Circuit.

I can't work out the steering arrangement on that. It looks like it pivots on a more-or-less vertical rod to the right of the front wheel. But wouldn't that just whack the back edge of the wheel into the front swingarm when turning left?

The concept text is all in japanese... Bad translation - 'I want to set it on its own what about gaap becomes such a figure. Electric directory - Shitoposuto~u can be changed front swing arm steering La, and suspension are separated, belt drive, such as the position, is a combination of a fully also current. Verification of whether it is designed to be able to ride it is impossible because it does not know at all physical part mechanical"
Here.
Looks like he/she isn't quite sure if the concept will work either haha

Good to see that they haven't over-complicated the design...

#killitwithfire

blurghh :(

It's just a tesi with pedals, all the design challenges are soluble, but you still don't end up with anything better than a conventional telescopic fork.

It is, like Tesi's, extremely rad

More wooden bikes, but now with over-designed metal bits:
http://mocoloco.com/vote/wood-b-handmade-wooden-bike-by-bsg-bikes/

Probably not the 100% correct thread, but I can't think where else to put it:

Build a Custom Bike Frame with 3D Printing.

I've seen that before, would say any major advance in building technology (such as 3d printing) has a place here.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rideye/rideye-the-black-box-camera-for-your-bike

Discuss

I'd only buy that if they made it uglier.

Bike storage innovation

Underground automated bike parking in japan

The latest "ideal" bike "revolution".

IZZYbike without a chain, 2x2 drive ( izzybike@gmail.com) - YouTube

Polo bike?

But shit.

Oh my god they're trying to market it in English but failing miserably :/ it's not easy, it's izzy!

It can't be as smart as it looks

https://www.dragoninnovation.com/projects/23-hammerhead

It can be as smart as they claim and it still won't do anything I wasn't already doing with a Garmin Edge 305 six years ago. The creation of better quality pace notes is all down to stuff that has happened off-board in the intervening half decade, but once you have a good route description loaded in the Garmin it guides you with beeps and pictograms of the junctions, turns on the screen light only when needed, can put up the virtual training partner if you want a race and the battery lasts 8-12h without the need to carry a smart phone. A cheap accessory for smart phone owners who occasionally ride, but I think hardcore Stravanauts will be keeping their dedicated cycling GPS/PM head units.

Agreed.

I was more interested in its 'Tells you if something is in your path' system which much be pretty sophisticated if it works even slightly well. Obviously that's less useful than actually looking where you're going, but an interesting idea.

Also, useless in areas of low or no phone reception, data or GPS - i.e. the kind of places where fun cycling occurs.

I'm not so sure about this...

I'm not so sure about this...

Anything that transmits data over the air can be hacked given enough time. At least with something mechanical, the thief will have to be present. With this, they can lie in the shadows and (lets be realistic, because this is a great hacking target) and then unlock it and walk away.

Also: Better go rub a bank instead....

"Enough time" being measured in millions of years for 128 bit AES key encryption, as opposed to hours.

I would ask how resilient it would be to a magnet, or electric current.

rub a bank
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