What will be the next 'big thing' for bikes?

[D7JAB]

These are all awesome ideas! Maybe not the Vase...Only because its a decorative

The whole upload idea upon stopping and being in range of your pc is pretty smart!
You could program the glasses to put other people who do the same route as you as a race ghost so you have something to chase.

After pumping my tyres up at lunch some kind of full time active pump system would be nice, continuously keeping the tyres at the right pressure to avoid blow outs and many mins of pump time. could also alert you to slow punctures etc before its too late.

 

[Hover Fly]

That was available once (pre-war). I can't remember the exact details but father told me it was a tiny (valve size) pump at the hub worked by a cam with a tube to the inner tube valve.

 

[mcshroom]

Self-cleaning

You have to clean them!

 

[RaRa]

Auto inflating tires or maybe unpuncturable ones.

 

[bikepete]

[QUOTE 1806411, member: 45"]A vase.[/quote]

http://www.fahrradvase.de/

 

[Oxo]

Parking sensors.

 

[D7JAB]

[QUOTE 1806641, member: 76"]An extendable, growing bike. Mostly for kids. Something like a trombone set-up thorughout all the tubes, so as the kids get bigger, you can extend the tubing all ways and the bike grows with them. Put it on a 26" wheel, and it would last for years! Buying bikes for kids is a terribly expensive process and buying one decent "ExtendaByke"® would save hundreds.[/quote]

Extra points to you sir for coming up with a company name!

 

[ColinJ]

'Next big thing' for bikes?



Me - if I can drag my lard arse away from the computer long enough to go out on one of mine!

 

[machew]

'Next big thing' for bikes?

Aircon

 

[tyred]

Cruise control.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

A machine gun to deal with left hookers,

What have you got against ladies of the night that have a hankering to support labour and the far left.

 

[bikepete]

After pumping my tyres up at lunch some kind of full time active pump system would be nice, continuously keeping the tyres at the right pressure to avoid blow outs and many mins of pump time.

These exist - e.g.

http://pump-hub.com/pump-hub/Pump_Hub.html

That's a small-scale inventor type one, but I've also seen generic ones in catalogues from Taiwanese manufacturers - think they're popular on shopping bikes in e.g. Japan.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

Some sort of chemical onboard toilet to avoid the need to stop in a bush on long rides.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

Those new fangled things which allow you to coast down a hill, will they ever catch on?

They're the work of the devil I tell thee

 

[iLB]

Some sort of chemical onboard toilet to avoid the need to stop in a bush on long rides.

no need for that! just a push