Monday, February 28, 2011

Folding Penny-Farthing Is A Closet Unicycle

David Damshek's Diamove manages to parasite many of the boxes on the process bike clichd underline list. Take a look:

Hubless wheels '

Weird folding pattern '

Concealed cabling '

Clever seeking but unknown expostulate network '

Weak, non-triangular support '

The Diamove might have a tiny, gaunt head-tube receiving all of the bike's constructional stresses, a chair that is tractable by a small couple of inches, and a handlebar-stem that looks as if it would tear off in seconds, but it does have a few great looks. The bull-horn handlebars look great, and sincerely comfy, and the penny-farthing (p-far) design-motif is evidently the Next Big Thing. And the front-wheel-drive eliminates the danger of wheely-ing on the partial wheel-base.

But since that this bike looks flattering unstable, and that even when folded it is bigger than the Bromptons and Dahons you can already buy, you consternation because you'd bother. Oh, and there's moreover the small indicate that it would be unfit to float in anything but a true line: Imagine pedaling while moreover steering with the front-wheel-drive setup, and then suppose the consequent drop and successive slash on the bull-horn bars.

Single Motion Folding [Yanko]

See Also:

Retro-Looking Penny-Farthing Freak-Bike

Behold! The Car-Crushing Monsterbike

YikeBike: Cute Electric Penny-Farthing

Gorgeous Folding Bike Places Form Far Above Function

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