[jonKranked]

only from Yale:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/yale-students-build-spokeless-bicycle-in-one-semester-now-looki/

Needs some refining, but pretty impressive, considering it only took them a semester to design and build.

 

[eaterofdog]

I'm not sure why designers feel as though they must constantly molest the cycling world with their idiotic and useless bike designs, since there are few machines in this world which require less improvement. - Bikesnobnyc

 

[jonKranked]

I'm not sure why designers feel as though they must constantly molest the cycling world with their idiotic and useless bike designs, since there are few machines in this world which require less improvement. - Bikesnobnyc

:facepalm:

 

[Bushwhacker]

Wait...what?

 

[I Are Baboon]

I wonder what they got for a grade. Pretty cool stuff.

 

[Brian HCM#1]

I wonder what they got for a grade. Pretty cool stuff.

I'd give hime an "I"




Incomplete

 

[badphish]

Liars!!! I can clearly see spokes on that bicycle. Spokeless Bike Fail

 

[stevew]

billy lane is thrilled.

 

[Polandspring88]

only from MIT:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/yale-students-build-spokeless-bicycle-in-one-semester-now-looki/

Needs some refining, but pretty impressive, considering it only took them a semester to design and build.

MIT huh? The title of that article would disagree!

 

[jonKranked]

MIT huh? The title of that article would disagree!

yale, mit, same nerds different college.

 

[MMike]

No-one? REALLY?? NO-ONE??

sigh



"Looks flexy"

 

[Bushwhacker]

I see your tired, old, rehashed, spokeless lies and raise you one truly spokeless bike...

http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/chain-free-bmx-concept-promises-a-silent-and-comfortable-ride/#comment-646556

 

[jonKranked]

I see your tired, old, rehashed, spokeless lies and raise you one truly spokeless bike...

http://www.ecofriend.org/entry/chain-free-bmx-concept-promises-a-silent-and-comfortable-ride/#comment-646556

I'll see your rendering made by a graphic designer, and raise you a bike that actually exists, made by actual engineers:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/yale-students-build-spokeless-bicycle-in-one-semester-now-looki/

 

[Wingnut]

Looks like it'd be easy to change a flat on the side of the trail...

 

[TheTruth]

I wonder what they got for a grade. Pretty cool stuff.

Ill give them a Z.

 

[DRB]

Front wheel has spokes. What's the big fvcking deal?

 

[Bushwhacker]

I'll see your rendering made by a graphic designer, and raise you a bike that actually exists, made by actual engineers:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/17/yale-students-build-spokeless-bicycle-in-one-semester-now-looki/

Ha...I thought the BMXr was real! I just looked at it real quick. But I still semi-sniped you..

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3399242&postcount=1371

 

[UiUiUiUi]

honestly it's a fun little project but thiese kind of wheels are not new by a long shot...

just look up franco sbarro...

 

[DRB]

honestly it's a fun little project but thiese kind of wheels are not new by a long shot...

just look up franco sbarro...

What the hell does an italian food mall restaurant have to do with wheels?

 

[kazlx]

That totally looks like a valid, simple replacement for spoked wheels...

If it ain't broke...

 

[Prettym1k3]

Imagine taco'ing that wheel.

Yikes.

 

[4130biker]

I like the one that connects near where the wheel touches the ground better. Who cares if it doesn't really exist yet. Obviously it's possible. That bmx rendering, or whatever it is, has the potential to make a pretty sick single pivot dh bike... Especially if you ditch the one sided swingarm thing.
Sure there would be tons of problems with mud, but if it could be sealed, it could shave some weight and work quite elegantly with one of the gearbox things goin out there..

 

[tylerpier137]

Does it come in root beer?

 

[Rip]

Can you fit 3.0 gazzalodis on it?

 

[pencil_sr]

My uncle has a Christini AWD bike, and using similar drive technology i think the BMX concept that Bushwhacker posted the link to could definitely be made into a reality.

 

[Bushwhacker]

yale, mit, same nerds different college.

I have to disagree... Here are some MIT nerds in action. (It even has bike related parts)

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2010/amos-wheelchair-0218.html

 

[Icantdrive65]

This would be terrible on a mountain bike. Every narrow rocky section would be smashing the frame and fork to death.
The Yale bike keeps the footprint small, but I suspect that it really is FLEXY.

 

[4xBoy]

yale, mit, same nerds different college.

Lets here it for Yale.

 

[w00dy]

I think the BMX concept that Bushwhacker posted the link to could definitely be made into a reality.

You're kidding right?

Shaft drive is spongy, heavy, and rife with reliability issues. The slightest ding in that rim would cause it to bind. Any serious bmxer would bend the **** out of the fork and rear stay in about a day.

 

[say 10]

spokeless is an interesting concept, how about the foldable wheel

http://folding-wheels.com/index.html

 

[eaterofdog]