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[url= http://www.****/sciencetech/article-1292986/Young-designer-puts-new-twist-folding-bicycle-idea.html ]benders - what could possibly go wrong[/url]
Brilliant. Not sure it is lighter and cheaper than just carrying a lock, but nice lateral thinking all the same.
[i]wraps around a lamp post so it can be locked-up safely - without the need for a lock or chain[/i]
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[i]with a regular bike lock able to secure the frame[/i]
= Huh?
Brilliant. Not sure it is lighter and cheaper than just carrying a lock, but nice lateral thinking all the same.
I tend to agree - not commercially viable and it would be about as stiff as an old man's willy, but an interesting solution to a problem.
but an interesting solution to a [b]non[/b]-problem.
Quite!
He'll never sell many with bent forks, a 1" hs and nae brakes 😀
I presume there is some kind of cable which pulls the 'bendy tube' rigid... could you not just snip that cable and make off with the lot? (on foot of course!)
Dave
All the rings would come off though, you'd be scurrying around trying to pick them up!
Its in the best tradition of British invention, ingenious yet utterly daft
could you not just get a bending robot to wrap your ordinary biek round a lamp post?
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Another Great British invention in the spirit of Sir Clive Sinclair, and his utterly impractical C5.
Who'd want to steal that?
I guess hes solved the problem by making a shit bike
I guess hes solved the problem by making a shit bike
Didn't [insert name of bike brand you dislike here] do that years ago?
the lad's got a great head of hair on him, though a bit 'feathered' in a 70's Farrah Fawcett way.
Round here drunk people will bend it round the lamppost for you, no need for a special bike.
Cables/hose to rear brakes or shifter are going to be troublesome.
Obviously he hasn't sorted the cable / hose problem and what happens to them whe you bend it round the lampost, as it doesn't have any brakes and appears to be a singlespeed.
Edit...beaten to it by boxelder
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Looks like one of the £90 Decathlon bikes thats been chopped up.
Good idea, looks well executed, daft tyres for urbane usage though
daft tyres for urbane usage though
What tyres for an bendy bike with no brakes or gears?
Cables/hose to rear brakes or shifter are going to be troublesome.
Yeah - that's why he left them off his prototype I bet. He could have a back-pedal brake though. They were so cool they were - ace for skidding as a kiddie 🙂
I guess you'd run it as a single speed with a pedal back brake and a normal setup on the front, quite cool for a runaround town bike.
Gosh, I would never have thought of suggesting a back-pedal brake.
😉