Energy Return Wheel

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Moodyman

Legendary Member
That looks great. I wonder how far that is from being commercially available.
 

Lanzecki

Über Member
What energy does it return? And how much heavier is it then a normal tire?

Looks bad arse though :smile:
 

Canrider

Guru
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_wheel

Might want to ignore or correct the 'found spelling'.. While I suppose there is the chance they've hit upon a novel material that'll provide the same riding performance of pneumatic rubber in cycling applications, the bumph about 'storing energy from bumps to make the wheel spin faster' sounds like something-for-nothing wishful thinking...
 
I don't see the point myself.

Puncture fairy?

Schmuncture Fairy!

You callow fools and children of witchcraft can fear the puncture all you want. I do not fear the puncture.

I laugh at this cloistered monstrosity of a not-tyre in the attached video.

I laugh at the puncture and I laugh at the superstitious fools who tremble at its mention.

There's no way I'm going to get a puncture this week.

Touch wood....
 

Rob3rt

Man or Moose!
And you vary your tyre pressure to best deal with the terrain at hand how?
 

Drago

Legendary Member
With a pump! But that's out the window on these.

I can remember a similar looking item on Tomorrow's World about 3 decades back.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_return_wheel

Might want to ignore or correct the 'found spelling'.. While I suppose there is the chance they've hit upon a novel material that'll provide the same riding performance of pneumatic rubber in cycling applications, the bumph about 'storing energy from bumps to make the wheel spin faster' sounds like something-for-nothing wishful thinking...

Illiterate SEO. Correcting but it should be removed from Wiki as marketing.

I think I got all the correct warnings at the top :whistle:
 

Davidc

Guru
Perpetual motion machine?

They look a bit like things my children wore in the 1980s called Jelly Shoes!
 
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