Ron Arad re-invents the wheel

Chip \'oyler
Chip \'oyler Posts: 2,323
edited October 2011 in The bottom bracket
Very interesting design idea

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665045/sof ... ide-it-now
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  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    Interesting design but not sure we'll see it lighting up the peleton :wink:
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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Exceptionally striking look! Radical without radials. I wonder how the wheels grip around corners in the wet though.
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  • john-e-big-guns
    john-e-big-guns Posts: 489
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    I bet Park Tools have already made a tool to clean it.
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  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Not very aerodynamic!
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Not very aerodynamic!

    No but great if you 2 giant biscuit cutters.
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Guff says that the wheel is slightly bigger than normal to allow for the sprung part to give. But what happens when it isn't under compression - it'll hit the brake area of the forks won't it?
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Hmmm, cornering, braking & adverse weather performance?
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  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    this
    http://www.plokta.com/plokta/issue23/teapot.htm

    Form over function, its also SS. I notice there are other bikes there too designed by singers and other celebrities, can't wait until they start doing celebrity heart bypass surgery or the like.

    But I don't suppose old Ron bothers about that as long as people are talking about him
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  • MattC59
    MattC59 Posts: 5,408
    Nice !

    You can pretty much guarantee that it won't catch on, but it's a nice piece fo design. I'm sure that it would rumbe a bit at low speed though.

    As for the coments on cornering grip........... eerm.......... how about the equivalent of a tyre ? Perhaps a short section of rubber on each contact point ?
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  • The Ors
    The Ors Posts: 130
    I don't care about brakes, cornering etc. I just want to hear what it sounds like!

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  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    Johnny Hart did something similar in the 1970s with his BC comic strip. Thor the caveman invents the wheel, then invents an improved square wheel that's better because it won't roll away on a hill. His pal then invents a triangular wheel which is even better than the square one because it has one less "bump" each time it goes round.
    Coffee is not my cup of tea

    Moda Fresco track racer
    Kinesis Crosslight Pro 6 winter commuter
    Gunnar Hyper X
    Rocky Mountain ETSX
    Cannondale Scalpel 3000 (retro-bike in bits)
    Lemond Poprad Disc, now retired pending frame re-paint.
  • Escadrille Ecosse
    Escadrille Ecosse Posts: 164
    Johnny Hart did something similar in the 1970s with his BC comic strip. Thor the caveman invents the wheel, then invents an improved square wheel that's better because it won't roll away on a hill. His pal then invents a triangular wheel which is even better than the square one because it has one less "bump" each time it goes round.
    Coffee is not my cup of tea

    Moda Fresco track racer
    Kinesis Crosslight Pro 6 winter commuter
    Gunnar Hyper X
    Rocky Mountain ETSX
    Cannondale Scalpel 3000 (retro-bike in bits)
    Lemond Poprad Disc, now retired pending frame re-paint.
  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    MattC59 wrote:
    Nice !

    You can pretty much guarantee that it won't catch on, but it's a nice piece fo design. I'm sure that it would rumbe a bit at low speed though.

    As for the coments on cornering grip........... eerm.......... how about the equivalent of a tyre ? Perhaps a short section of rubber on each contact point ?

    Brilliant! Someone reinvents the wheel and you reinvent the tyre to go with it. What we need now is for someone to reinvent the rim. :lol:
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    What about the bike, cornering has dangers = four wheels.
    Get tired = engine
    Get wet and cold = encase in a metal cage.

    There you are :wink: Oh it is a car, damn I thought I was on to something there :oops: .
  • Squillinossett
    Squillinossett Posts: 1,678
    Nice looking, but I would prefer to have the 10 sets or so of 404's I could buy for the same cost!
  • tx14
    tx14 Posts: 244
    retarded, just plain retarded.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    Abit of modern art nothing more, no idiot would ride that on the road.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    pastabake wrote:
    Abit of modern art nothing more, no idiot would ride that on the road.

    Certainly not the pot holed grooved farm tracks that pass for roads round my way & I don't fancy its chances on the metrolink track
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    Looks awesome
    I like bikes...

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