Bendy bike for benders

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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    "Never buy anything that looks like a bike from anyone with a beard".....thats what my bike selling bearded grandma used to say.
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  • Lillywhite
    Lillywhite Posts: 742
    guilliano wrote:
    As for being road legal.... if it's a fixie it needs no brakes to be allowed on the road surely?

    Needs a front brake even if it has a rear fixed sprocket.

    However, it looks as if it's a got a rear derailleur from the first photo above. :shock:
  • Monkeypump
    Monkeypump Posts: 1,528
    White Line wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    I didn't write that!
    Whoops! Seems I deleted the wrong part when I copy and pasted the whole post. :oops: Fixed now. :)

    No worries :wink:
    White Line wrote:
    Also, the designer is clearly not a cyclist. Look at that saddle height. Plus, everybody knows that the bars shouldn't be that wide on such a bike. :roll:

    Agree 100%
  • Monkeypump
    Monkeypump Posts: 1,528
    Lillywhite wrote:
    However, it looks as if it's a got a rear derailleur from the first photo above. :shock:

    Chain tensioner.
  • Lillywhite
    Lillywhite Posts: 742
    edited July 2010
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Chain tensioner.

    Havn't come across one of those. :oops:

    But then I've never been into single speed MTB or BMX. Apparently cannot be used with a fixed gear system when requires you to stamp on the pedals to slow down. :wink:
  • guilliano
    guilliano Posts: 5,495
    Lillywhite wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    Chain tensioner.

    Havn't come across one of those. :oops:

    Used on singlespeed or hub geared bikes with vertical dropouts
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Crapaud wrote:
    Why? What's wrong with it? Plenty of things fail, eventually, through fatigue / wear.

    Sorry fella, I was talking about the brake / gear cable comment.
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Monkeypump wrote:
    I'm not sure there's a difference.
    It's a design project, part of his course, it's essentially an exam. I'm sure that we've all sat exams that bear no relevance to the real world.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    MattC59 wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    I'm not sure there's a difference.
    It's a design project, part of his course, it's essentially an exam. I'm sure that we've all sat exams that bear no relevance to the real world.

    Sometimes I think this forum has no relevance to the real world :D
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    MattC59 wrote:
    Monkeypump wrote:
    I'm not sure there's a difference.
    It's a design project, part of his course, it's essentially an exam. I'm sure that we've all sat exams that bear no relevance to the real world.

    Sometimes I think this forum has no relevance to the real world :D

    Neither does the vuvuzela but, let's face it, we've all heard it. :wink:
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,490
    Surely part of being assessed on a project like this would be to identify potential problems and state how you would overcome them? It's usually the sort of thing a lecturer likes to see to boost a basic pass to a good pass. Also, surely you should identify a requirement for a product? If going into design R&D funding is tight and you wouldn't be thanked for coming up with a concept with little or no end users, it should be part of a design course to know that.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    glauciaregina9 wrote:
    I think it's an interesting alternative approach.
    Clearly a bit of a Marmite concept from the comments so far...

    Baffling how several posters have written it off already, based on one picture :?



    "theres also plenty of 26 inch wheelers that hinge already that are goint to be more stable in use"

    "I wouldn't want to be pelting downhill when the cable - as it must inevitavly do - snaps!"


    Seems to be a lot of people who are suddenly experts in something they've never ever seen before :wink:

    baffling how some people think I didn't click on the link and read the article :?

    I've never ever seen the inside of an erupting volcano but I'm pretty sure that it'll be hot :wink:

    the bendy bit is a cable and ratchet mechanism that is alternately stretched taut then relaxed (and bent.)

    much the same as brake and gear cables and chains, all of which stretch, stress, bend & fray needing regular tweaking, attention and relatively frequent replacement - many times over the life of a frame.

    to make the vast majority of the frame out of something that has less shelf life than a frame........

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