Little bit for me
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Little bit for me
The white thing looks weak.
The half-a-cycle
Kastan too
We have a medical office building in Fresno that looks like a glass pyramid, upside down, point planted well into the ground.
You can always defy mechanical logic, if you are willing to pay the price. Normally weight and complexity plus $.
Of course it’s always shocking to do such illogical things because they just look wrong. It’s how architects and car designers become infamous.
You can always defy mechanical logic, if you are willing to pay the price. Normally weight and complexity plus $.
Of course it’s always shocking to do such illogical things because they just look wrong. It’s how architects and car designers become infamous.
This one looks lovely. And logical.
It was created to be “functional art” by a guy that used to be a top fuel fabricator
Hence the use of the drag front wheels
Hence the use of the drag front wheels
4130 chromely steal hand weilded here in Canada I could hammer nails in with the frame I'm using the same frame for my build
I think its strange and unusual in the very fun way
But I also have a derkef I may use
= Not useful for racing.
(But then neither is my bike…)
It looks like it was designed by an engineer, and not some “seeker.”
Not some engineer just a guy in his garage that knew what worked
I love how it very unique and like you said half bike half weight
This chromag could work to
I thought I made my point. It’s a curiosity. A wall-hanger.
Remember on paper a bicycle should not work but it does.
Just making something beautiful, complex and different does not alone constitute technical advancement. If that complexity only exists to throw art in the face of science it becomes a burdensome facade.
If the half-a-bike was a really good idea, you’d see a lot of them. Because it was only a really odd idea, you never will.
The 200 hp Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Landau was a magnificent car in its day. Almost Cream of the crop. They sold very few because it was so expensive, and it was thus such a poor idea it nearly bankrupted them.
Packard, Pierce, Peerless . . . all were the most fabulous artistic cars, and all went bankrupt. Not a good idea to go bankrupt.
The 20 hp Ford model T sold 19 million. It was a much inferior car, but everybody could afford one so it was a really great idea. Simple and ugly, but still great.
If the half-a-bike was a really good idea, you’d see a lot of them. Because it was only a really odd idea, you never will.
The 200 hp Chrysler Imperial LeBaron Landau was a magnificent car in its day. Almost Cream of the crop. They sold very few because it was so expensive, and it was thus such a poor idea it nearly bankrupted them.
Packard, Pierce, Peerless . . . all were the most fabulous artistic cars, and all went bankrupt. Not a good idea to go bankrupt.
The 20 hp Ford model T sold 19 million. It was a much inferior car, but everybody could afford one so it was a really great idea. Simple and ugly, but still great.
It only works in the non-entropic situation where it is an extension of the human. We just can’t model the human part on paper. ;-)
Drawing/modeling a bicycle is pretty easy.
Some People say humans couldn’t have built the great pyramids, but yet somehow there they are. No magic was involved.
A bicycle doesn’t work by magic either, just because people can’t well understand its physics. It only becomes a good working idea as part of the human/bike symbiosis.
MattiThundrrr
Rattus All Terrainus
Lefty is not for people who are afraid to push boundaries, try new things. Cannondale has been making and successfully selling them for over 20 years. They have multiple versions, from mountain to gravel applications
There are even a few rigid versions if suspension isn't your thing
How many of those sold
