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Hubless Monster Motorcycle Rolls Without Spokes
jalopnik ^
| Mon Jan 26 2009
| Wes Siler
Posted on 01/27/2009 11:25:03 AM PST by martin_fierro
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To: martin_fierro; Constitution Day
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To: martin_fierro
Who’s going to be the first person to try to dive through the wheel while it’s moving?
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:34:01 AM PST
by
Just another Joe
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To: martin_fierro
“reduced structural stress (no spokes to transmit forces through)”
This is nonsense. The forks still see all the weight the whell sees - period.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:34:38 AM PST
by
Pessimist
To: FrPR
I was thinking the same thing, I am positive Billy Lane was doing this years ago.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:35:53 AM PST
by
MatD
To: martin_fierro
The back wheel looks cool, but the front just looks weird.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:36:39 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
(T.A.R.P. = Viagra for politicians and you get screwed.)
To: Pessimist
There is almost no stronger way to biuld a wheel than with spokes...What buffoons.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:36:40 AM PST
by
SENTINEL
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To: smokingfrog
To: martin_fierro
wouldn’t setting the forks that close to the bottom of the wheel REALLY screw up the steering/ handling?
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:40:25 AM PST
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: MatD
One of Billy's hubless bikes. OK, so it's just the rear, but hey, it's right.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:41:53 AM PST
by
P8riot
(I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
To: martin_fierro
OK, how do you change the tire and how long will it take to change?
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:42:23 AM PST
by
WellyP
To: SENTINEL
There is almost no stronger way to biuld a wheel than with spokes... Accept for all the other ways, right? Or are you talking about its strength versus its weight?
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:44:18 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Community Organizer: What liberals do when they run out of college, before they run out of Marxism.)
To: absolootezer0
“wouldnt setting the forks that close to the bottom of the wheel REALLY screw up the steering/ handling?”
Not sure how the handling would be affected, but there’d be much greater danger from road debris. Imagine snagging the forks on rocks or potholes instead of just riding over the bumps like with a normal wheel. It looks pretty cool, but I’ll definitely defer to others to do the beta testing.
To: WellyP
OK, how do you change the tire and how long will it take to change? In Obamaworld, it must be changed through Government, and with great haste.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:47:37 AM PST
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll)
To: martin_fierro
That rear tire is bizarre.
To: martin_fierro
There is still a hub but the hub is fatter and has a hole in it.
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:48:23 AM PST
by
posterchild
(Endowed by my Creator with certain inalienable rights.)
To: Constitution Day
I would love to try one of those, but would not feel comfortable sitting that close to the ground.
McLean Monowheel
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posted on
01/27/2009 11:51:26 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
(T.A.R.P. = Viagra for politicians and you get screwed.)
To: SampleMan
Spoked wheels most closely resemble "Perimeter Box" construction, which always results in the highest strength to weight ratios, materials being equal.
The spoked wheel is closest to a pure "tension / compression" stress loading with very small bending moments due to the left / right "overlap".
Even the "solid" fat boy type wheel design is not stronger, when matched for weight.
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01/27/2009 11:54:18 AM PST
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SENTINEL
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