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Look ma no spokes!
Who’s going to be the first person to try to dive through the wheel while it’s moving?
“reduced structural stress (no spokes to transmit forces through)”
This is nonsense. The forks still see all the weight the whell sees - period.
wouldn’t setting the forks that close to the bottom of the wheel REALLY screw up the steering/ handling?
OK, how do you change the tire and how long will it take to change?
That rear tire is bizarre.
There is still a hub but the hub is fatter and has a hole in it.
Is it really hubless...or just a really big hub with a hole in the middle?
Put me on the ping list, please sir.
The biker boys at Amen Design have built a chopper based around Franco Sbarro’s hubless wheels. And it really rides!Just great. There goes the 'Wheel Spoke' industry. Now THEY'LL want a bail-out too!
Of course they'll have to get in line behind the Buggy Whip and Lamp Wick makers. Not to mention all those poor Whale-Bone Corset makers who've been out of work since 1897.
dam NAFTA, all 'our jobs' are going overseas!
- Pot hole = death
- Soft ground or sand = death
- Front end geometry = poor handling, leading to death
- Tire removal = a day in the shop
Not interested.....
Interesting - but clearly no justification to accept the inherent negatives or extreme risk of taking this design on the road..
They may look cool but I can’t see any longevity out of those rims whatsoever what with moisture, water and just plain dust that is bound to infiltrate any seal on those things and corrupt whatever internal parts there are. Probably lots of bearings......
After the first pothole those wheels will be out of round.
That’s seriously cool. I look at it as a sculpture that you can ride. It’s like the custom bikes on American Chopper. Nobody buys those things to ride, but they’re cool and fun.