Watches video
quiet contemplative construction …
gets on bike for test drive …
CLANG CLANG CLANG!!! GRINDING GEAR SOUNDS!! CLANG CLAG KAAAALLLLNNNNNNNNGGGG!!!
My ears! 😭
Shitload of tire sounds, too.
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“Do you like nails on a chalkboard? Well do I have a bike for you!”
Gotta give the dudes credit for a really nicely made video. And I wonder how many hours were in welding and screwing this tracks together.
They clearly dido this for fun/video content, so I’m not mad, but they shoulda added some chain guides (like engine timing chains have), or at least filled the steel tubing with foam maybe.
Cool that the guy made something original but fuck all of that. It does not look like it can take miles of hard work.
He just does crazy stuff like this for fun
“What if we had worse bike?”
Big “just because I can” energy
Dumb? Dumb. No improvement, only less comfort, less speed, much more noise.
I kinda love how insanely stupid this is. It makes no sense but this man made it anyways and I think that’s beautiful.
You do realize the bikes of this guy are meant as jokes, not serious attempts of improvement, right?
I comment the facts, not the intention.
You are of course free to woooosh around as much as you like, enjoy!
I don’t know if I’m blind or what, but I couldn’t find the link to the video in the article so here you go https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5b0DKfhPc4
Like gliding on chainsaws
I miss NewPipe bot
Not that you asked, but I recently installed the Redirector extension for Firefox and have all YouTube links automatically redirected to an Invidious instance. I also have it set to redirect amp urls.
Ooh, I like that. I’m gonna check it out, thank you.
Holy shit that thing is loud
One of the “side effects” of a round wheel is holding the bike vertical. I wonder how awful this is to balance on too
Literally reinventing the wheel
What is a tread but an overly complicated wheel?
Wait till you see his Slipper Bike AKA
de Pantoffelfiets
Hah!
Absolutely hilarious!
It looks like a Bike Party kind of bike. Bike parties are events where the city’s bike community can come together. At least out here, they publish the path for that night’s ride, and then the bicyclists will basically take the lane with a kind of parade of weird bikes lit up with LED lights, playing music, and socializing. In several cities around me, it’s a year round monthly event, and homeowners along the route will frequently come out to see the bikes and wave to the riders. This is where you’ll see people pulling out their pennyfarthings and other weird bikes. I could definitely see this used for that kind of thing.
There’s a square wheel bike that I think is similar in terms of the use cases.
In a different orientation, I think this could possibly work as a snow bike!
I’ve seen an ebike rear wheel replacement that is literally just treads for riding in the snow. I think I’ll just stick with thick tires but it’s still a neat idea.
Is this the same dude that made a square-wheeled bike?
Do you want the ultimate tracked experience? Do you want the bicycle equivalent of a mechanical keyboard? Do you like all things tanks? Well, we have the vehicle for you!
