Bike of he future

[Arch]

Why does the "future" bike have to have alternative power?

Because inventing a bike that just does what every bike already does isn't news, and not news means no coverge for your brand...

Load of tosh. My bike gets me from A to B, has a computer, I can have music if I wish (MP3, or just singing to myself) and, in a feature Mr Boardman seems to have omitted, I can carry loads of stuff. What's laughable is that it's billed as a commuter bike. So he's shaved off grams and wind resistance by doing away with hubs and spokes, but I see no mention of how it will have gears....

No lock is unbreakable, if you have big enough bolt croppers etc, and if you can't deal with a p***ture every so often, you shouldn't be out on a bike.

When you look at an early safety bike, from 100 years ago, and a modern bike, the main difference is probably the finesse of the components, and there's a reason for that - the basic design works. I notice the furture bike doesn't deal with one very common grouse - saddle soreness. If he'd designed a recumbent that would be a start....

 

[trustysteed]

note to self, must take secateurs with me when stealing bike so i can lop the owner's fingers off to bypass lock....

 

[Chuffy]

Load of tosh. My bike gets me from A to B, has a computer, I can have music if I wish (MP3, or just singing to myself) and, in a feature Mr Boardman seems to have omitted, I can carry loads of stuff. What's laughable is that it's billed as a commuter bike. So he's shaved off grams and wind resistance by doing away with hubs and spokes, but I see no mention of how it will have gears....

No lock is unbreakable, if you have big enough bolt croppers etc, and if you can't deal with a p***ture every so often, you shouldn't be out on a bike.

When you look at an early safety bike, from 100 years ago, and a modern bike, the main difference is probably the finesse of the components, and there's a reason for that - the basic design works. I notice the furture bike doesn't deal with one very common grouse - saddle soreness. If he'd designed a recumbent that would be a start....

It's not an actual bike, as such, it's more like the concept car design studies you get at car shows. It's more about what could be done.
Doesn't look like it adds much though, and those Sbarro hubless wheels (been around for ages in show cars and motorbikes) will never make it to a production model.

 

[rich p]

It's not an actual bike, as such, it's more like the concept car design studies you get at car shows. It's more about what could be done.
Doesn't look like it adds much though, and those Sbarro hubless wheels (been around for ages in show cars and motorbikes) will never make it to a production model.

I'm pretty sure I had a Ford Concept years ago

 

[Arch]

It's not an actual bike, as such, it's more like the concept car design studies you get at car shows. It's more about what could be done.
Doesn't look like it adds much though, and those Sbarro hubless wheels (been around for ages in show cars and motorbikes) will never make it to a production model.

That's my beef with it - computers, music, decent locks, tough tyres, light frames, electric assist (albeit not solar) - it's all out there, and I'll bet someone already has it all on their bike. But it doesn't look space age enough. When I was a kid, we were told we'd all have hover cars and silver suits, well, if I don't get mine soon, I'll want my money back....

 

[Wolf04]

I've seen this a couple of times now but still can't see how the drive works on a hubless wheel. I assume the tyre/rim rotates around the body of the wheel but is there in little hand inside spinning that around like the hoops kids use to play with when I was a nipper that my parents use to describe?

 

[tyred]

An interesting piece of design but's the normal bike works fine and would be considerably cheaper to build.

 

[Chuffy]

I've seen this a couple of times now but still can't see how the drive works on a hubless wheel. I assume the tyre/rim rotates around the body of the wheel but is there in little hand inside spinning that around like the hoops kids use to play with when I was a nipper that my parents use to describe?

Google Sbarro + hubless.

Check out this hubless chopper...!

 

[Wolf04]

Google Sbarro + hubless.

Check out this hubless chopper...!

Cheers that is one cool looking chopper if you don't mind me saying!

 

[willhub]

The bike looks crap I'd rather have my bike than that.

 

[Corvette chic]

Arch we were promised little robots to do the housework and we'd have all this leisure time and I'm still waiting for mine

 

[Mr Pig]

Arch we were promised little robots to do the housework and I'm still waiting for mine

The geeks lost interest in making those when someone told them you could get women to do the same thing and more!

 

[661-Pete]

Two things spring to mind.

Hubless wheels. I remember reading quite some time ago about the 'monowheel' or 'monocycle' (not to be confused with 'unicycle'), a giant hubless wheel which the rider sits inside. Has anyone tried one?

Electrically-assisted bikes. I've recently noticed that a young lady (well, not-quite-so-young) goes out riding on such a bike, along part of my lunchtime spin route. She appears to make smooth progress, but I am pleased to report that I have no difficulty in overtaking her, despite having perhaps twenty years seniority! And it's not often I can boast about something like that.

 

[willhub]

Was talking to this old woman, she says her electric bike loaded with panniers can get her up this 10+% gradient at like 20mph.

 

[661-Pete]

Was talking to this old woman, she says her electric bike loaded with panniers can get her up this 10+% gradient at like 20mph.

Evidently the porsche of the electric bike scene. What I passed must have been the skoda...