What will we be riding in 2112?

[hoopdriver]

I've asked Santa for a pair of Super Record carbon fibre ones...the ones with the titanium fixtures and ceramic bearings...

 

[Ian H]

I imagine we'll be braking and gear shifting telepathically at the very least.

Not good for the absent-minded.

 

[palinurus]

Couriers will start riding Hobby Horses and commuters will follow five years later, clogging up the streets with their wooden steeds and plus fours. The sound of bugles will be heard all over the square mile.

 

[CopperCyclist]

No. They are called stabilisers!

Like it! See, and there I was thinking of a system which uses weightless, near infinite power to rapidly spin the wheels of the bike, barring the actual tyres. I think that would create enough gyroscopic force to maintain the wheel vertically... Should have known a cheaper easier solution existed!

 

[CopperCyclist]

No. They are called stabilisers!

Like it! See, and there I was thinking of a system which uses weightless, near infinite power to rapidly spin the wheels of the bike, barring the actual tyres. I think that would create enough gyroscopic force to maintain the wheel vertically... Should have known a cheaper easier solution existed!

 

[asterix]

Well, when I start growing old I shall be getting a carbon bike.

 

[Tigerbiten]

The main reason most bikes follow the dimond frame pattern is that the UCI effectively banned the use of recumbent's in 1934.
Without that ban there would be a lot more variation in bike design and a lot more bents on the road.

 

[hoopdriver]

Like it! See, and there I was thinking of a system which uses weightless, near infinite power to rapidly spin the wheels of the bike, barring the actual tyres. I think that would create enough gyroscopic force to maintain the wheel vertically... Should have known a cheaper easier solution existed!

The future is now! :-)

 

[CopperCyclist]

The main reason most bikes follow the dimond frame pattern is that the UCI effectively banned the use of recumbent's in 1934.
Without that ban there would be a lot more variation in bike design and a lot more bents on the road.

Nice point. Sign me up to the future getting bent!

 

[jonny jeez]

We shan't cycle at all.

We'll have pedal powered personal teleport systems.

Our great, great gradkids will laugh at the fact that we travelled in small metal boxes on dirty slippery roads and flew in pressurised tin cans thousands of feet in the air held up only by the action of low air pressure.

Of course they'll be laughing at us through 2 inches of plexiglass, if Groening is to be proved correct.

 

[monkeylc]

 

[Deleted member 20519]

Probably be weightless with fully automatic mind reading gearing.

 

[hoopdriver]

Probably be weightless with fully automatic mind reading gearing.

The UCI won't be happy with that weightless bit - assuming they're still around

 

[Bengarbage]

carbon fibre cigarette smoker, with normal smokes my cherrie falls off at precisely 30.04 mph! please fix it science ..

 

[Melonfish]

when i saw this thread title i instantly thought Zager and Evans!