What I love about this is that they took a contraption that is defined by having two big wheels, and set it atop eight tiny wheels.
3000 Cyclists of Uncle Sam
(I’m on .world ncd anymore though)
sorry I don’t get your phrase in parenthsis?
I post on !noncredibledefense@lemmy.world instead of !noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
why? did something happen?
There was some… drama with the NCD mods on sh.itjust.works,
and now the NCD community there is banned from Blahaj.apparently unbanned, but I’m still wary of returning after that.It’s not banned on blahaj, it was mostly a big misunderstanding.
@CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works who is the power poster behind the community is banned from blahaj for “genocide denial”, therefore when viewing the community from blahaj it looks kind of empty.
damn, the recoil on that will have you speaking several Octaves higher
Great for fighting retreats!
Back then, this would have been a bold combination of emerging technologies.
Wow, the general shape of a bike was figured out earlier than I thought
And that’s 1897 AD - the BC ones were similar!
Yeah, but it was still a very different ride.
Wooden rims and solid rubber tires rattled your bones to bits on the prevailing cobbled roads
Ergonomics weren’t well understood. With that saddle and grip position, you sat hunched over the bars in a cramped position for no good reason.
No gears or freewheel means as long as the wheels are turning, so are your legs - lot’s of fun up and downhill!
No brakes. You brake by countering the pedals’ movement with your legs which is really hard on the knees.
No foot retention means if you slip off the pedal with your leather-soled shoes, you’re gonna have a bad time.
And the steel frame’s tubes were a lot thicker, so even without the MG that bike has about twice the weight of a modern one.tbf, this was cutting-edge technology at the time! The Penny-Farthing had just become obsolete.
I’m gonna need this next time I’m in the bike lane. No SUV is gonna cut me off now.
Need.
When this getting added to execitebike???
C/fuckcars
