Where will bike design/technology be in 20/30 years time

[CanucksTraveller]

To escape from two triangles and two circles, we'd need more eccentric, free thinking designers like Mike Burrows, and we need the industry to back them. No easy task. But if it were to happen, you'd get bikes like this on general sale.

 

[StuAff]

To escape from two triangles and two circles, we'd need more eccentric, free thinking designers like Mike Burrows, and we need the industry to back them. No easy task. But if it were to happen, you'd get bikes like this on general sale.

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Which would be a very good thing.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Here's what they thought was coming back in 1983
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...TAhUmOsAKHXkHAM4Q6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[raleighnut]

Kids born this year will be lovingly restoring genuine carbon fibre frames, "just like the one my dad used to ride when I was little".

The ones that haven't melted in the rain?

 

[Markymark]

Hover bikes.

 

[StuAff]

Here's what they thought was coming back in 1983
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...TAhUmOsAKHXkHAM4Q6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

Alex Moulton always was ahead of his time.

 

[Ian H]

E-bikes are merely the second-coming of the moped. All bicycle innovation has to account for weight and utility.

 

[classic33]

Hover bikes.

Try keeping up down there
Hover bikes available to pre-order.

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[S-Express]

and we need the industry to back them. No easy task. But if it were to happen, you'd get bikes like this on general sale.

Recumbents are already on general sale though...

 

[classic33]

Here's what they thought was coming back in 1983
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...TAhUmOsAKHXkHAM4Q6AEIPzAD#v=onepage&q&f=false

Alex Moulton always was ahead of his time.

30 years after he'd built his first one.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Recumbents are already on general sale though...

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Yes, but they're fairly expensive, niche, and still seen as a bit whacky. Which goes back to my first point.

 

[S-Express]

Yes, but they're fairly expensive, niche, and still seen as a bit whacky. Which goes back to my first point.

That's probably not going to change though, given that recumbents have been around for a long time as well. The UCI banned them from competition in 1934, which is going back a bit now...

 

[midlife]

Convergent Evolution

Shaun

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Electric powered cargo bikes, lots of them: all major shops will have them available for a minimal rental fee.
You go shopping on your bike, leave your bike at the shop's secure bike parking, ride home with the cargo bike.

 

[classic33]

That's probably not going to change though, given that recumbents have been around for a long time as well. The UCI banned them from competition in 1934, which is going back a bit now...

One from 1902.