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How Skeletal can an H Bike Be?
Made to be above all minimal. Should I be funny and just leave that one sentence as a description? Nay! Naw! Heck naw! Let’s talk all about this bike right here, buddy! The lines on it are simple yet dynamic. The shape is extreme, as if we were living on an alternate timeline where this bike had grown from a bizarro world history. And what is it made of? Carbon! And what’s its name? Hybrid City!
Yes, this is a carbon-based life-form. This makeup allows for maximum weight reduction in the end product.
So let me tell you. The one thing I got a big problem with. HUGE PROBLEM. Is that it’s not covered with butterflies. Ever since I saw that design so many months ago, I just cannot get it out of my head. BUT! I’ll tell ye what. The matte black on this bike does quite the trick. If anything is going to blank my platter, it’s going to be matte. Very wild! And why is it called hybrid? Because it’s half electric? No way. It’s because it’s got high fashion and extreme styling at the same time as being ready to be considered a premium city bike for commuting and extensive rider base. That’s it!
Designer: Peter Dudas
24 Comments »
VaniPod says
Is it actually sold somewhere ? I’m very impressed by the design !
Carsten says
Where are the brakes?
Gunnar Tveiten says
Wheels like these are very popular with “designers”, they don’t actually -exist- in a usable, practical, durable form though.
The bike would also be lighter AND stiffer with some kinda connection between saddle and rear-wheel, but then it’d look less “cool” I guess.
Marcelo says
Somebody know this is usable??
brack says
love that it has fewer parts, but just doesn’t look like it would function as a bike is advertised. the product would need to be tested by those skeptics before purchase.
mif991 says
Good school project.
ch says
Powerful design… I love it !
Reuben says
This is pretty cool design, however I can see a few problems regarding weight:
1) frame – There is a reason why bikes are a truss with all loads axial. Trusses allow very light sections. To have a bike designed like this you would need a lot of meat in those members as they are functioning as beams and cantilevers most likely making it pretty heavy.
2) wheels – There is a reason why bikes normally have spokes. The spokes reduce the required thickness of the rim. If you had these spoke less wheels you would have to have a very solid rim which I believe would be very heavy.
Get an engineers to verify the design next time.
Keep up the good work
Reubz
Tanguy says
Spokes keep the wheel round. Hubless wheels indeed need to find their rigidity elsewhere somehow. Putting the wheel/frame connection so high is a geometrical flaw. The rim and the frame would endure much less strain if the connection was close to the wheel/ground contact point, it’s a matter of leverage. So keep the frame going straight down after the pedal axis; going up without reaching the seat is just a non functional retro approach. Same principle applies to the front wheel, a fork reaching the rim near the ground would hold better. Bike design is first of all about physics and geometry… the good old stuff like gravity, strain, fatigue, water, dirt… and looking cool !
SkyWay says
Then again, if he puts them where the laws of physics would require, the connection would be exposed to a lot of dirt, sand, mud, all those nice things you have in the real world
If there is a need for coolness, I’d go with those wheels for track use, with fewer spokes or those solid types.
Additionally, the way the frame is done, open-ended triangle, is a bit shaky in my mind. Can’t find the durability in that, at least not with a connection as thin as that.
Doohickie says
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
powers says
Aha!
Cara says
design with no engineering is a fantasy.
i-sa says
I think too.
and I don’t like it.
hjippe says
nice surface treatment on the frame, though useless design
I’m so sick of seeing these silly bike designs popping up on a frequent basis. DO SOME RESEARCH.
powers says
But what does Zippy have to say about it?
Elepski says
Hubless wheel designs work just fine… they are just a bit more complicated and expensive… that’s why they have not gained widespread use yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPTSaARlvs
ted says
lOVE THIS. iT MAKES ME ALL WARM AND FUZZY. i WANT ONE. “zOOM…..zOOM, wHATARIDE!
tED
anon says
That “matte” black is awful glossy.
lulapalula says
very nice pj peter
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