is this one of those bikes where you pedal really really fast and it barely moves or one of those bikes that could hypothetically reach 125mph through gearing alone but when you jump up and down on the pedals they won't budge

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Second one

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This has got to be an art piece, right?

There doesn't seem to be a way in the world the chain does that without being affixed to the upper cog wheels, rendering the thing useless

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

it's on a small cog fixed to a solid axle to spin the gears on the other side. there's a through-axle every time it switches sides to a new crankset, each crankset is only driving a small loop of chain.

[–] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

some background. It is an art piece but not in the way you're thinking

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

thanks and also: new commuter just dropped

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

That's why I'm always late, time everywhere else goes faster

[–] bleepbloopbop@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it is designed to exceed the speed of light if pedaled at 90rpm

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hop on loser, we fastforwarding to the future

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago

tfw when this is every bicycle I own

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

this must be the bike used in back to the future 4

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

It's giving me anxiety just looking at it

[–] abc@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

we can pump that gear ratio up. a bike that travels a googol times faster than the speed of light given the rider can provide the torque. sicko-biker

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

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[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

it would be a good bit for tourists if you had one of these you could ride where the rear wheel was like a stone block embedded in the ground or something

[–] Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago

So many points of failure