iBike: Συλλογή από παράξενες κατασκευές ποδηλάτων

Τρίτη 26 Ιουλίου 2011

Συλλογή από παράξενες κατασκευές ποδηλάτων

Isn't this special? An international "forbidden" symbol with the circle and slash over a traditional crankset. This was a sticker the Alenax company handed out at the bike show, symbolic of the intense publicity effort that failed to move this turd.

The BodySail is our most popular weird bike.

Is it just me, or does this guy look a little out of control? Note that in the largest photo, the negative has been reversed so the brand name reads correctly through the sail, but it puts the cranks on the wrong side of the bike. Could he have picked a cheesier bicycle to use for his demonstration?

Here is former Giro d'Italia champ Francesco Moser shilling for a bike whose name means "The Ant." The idea is that the bike comes as a modular kit. You have tubes, wheels and joints that you can combine in any number of ways to make several types of bogus little bicycles.

The Buddy Bike. All the disadvantages of a tandem and none of the advantages! I love the tagline on the last image of the couple riding into the woods.

This must be safer than regular cycling, since a helmet is apparently not necessary. What happens when the pedal hits the ground?

The CS-30 Slope Indicator is a little pendulum with a pointer that tells you how steep the hill is that you are either climbing or descending. Because as we know, that is the only way one can choose the proper gear. No wonder it has taken the cycling world by storm.

The Power Pedal slides in and out on the crank, so it's shorter on the upstroke and longer on the down stroke. Why does this remind me of a perpetual motion machine?

The Erich Split Crank Set eliminates...well, you get the idea.

Legacy 2 wheel drive! What a concept! It's going to take over the mountain bike world, or at least it was in 1991. Wha hoppen? Well, one thing that happened is that it didn't work very well. If the front wheel and the rear wheel turned at different speeds, sometimes things broke. But the brochure was beautiful.