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Jruiter is a product design firm that seems to always be challenging itself to reinvent the wheel, taking a different approach to products that don’t necessarily follow the established design traditions. I’m not so sure about this one for it’s stated use in the city, and not just because of the limitations of even an internally geared unicycle hub let alone a simple direct-drive one as pictured. As a freak bike however, I certainly approve.
Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.
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“Bicycling at this level can be more about fashion and culture than speed and performance.”
…and sore balls, and sore hamstrings, and the scorn hurled upon you by ‘real’ cyclists.
I like the idea behind the design but you can tell there was no cyclist involved in its building. There is more than ample evidence of that with the disc brake and a 80-100mm travel fork. Ditch those, go with a coaster or just a light V brake get a rigid fork and things would be different
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Get two of them, put a big pan of some kind between them, and you could have a neat wagon.
Really, it looks like the pedals would work better on the front wheel.
I dunna-know.
UCI illegal G-Obrea inspired seat position. Super short wheel base. Minimal componentry.
Build this thing with some 36in cockers. Use a Maverik fork, red rave 409 rotor and some clipless pedals hooked to a schlumph drive and this thing would be the shit in a tight situation. I could crush some hills with that seat position. I WANT ONE!!!!!!!
say what you will but i wouldnt mind mind adding one to the arsenal.
I didn’t know they had training wheels for a unicycle.
I think that design can work. They just need to work out the geometry and seat design; if not then the words: Knee Surgery and Vasectomy will be used in the application of this bike.
With a geared uni hub you’d get about 45 gear inches maximum out of that design. Along with incredibly bad geometry and ergonomics. My balls hurt just looking at the seat/crank relationship.
Why do “design” firms always turn out concept products that are totally unresearched, depend on magic to function and ignore their own primary function?
I’m all for defying convention and doing things differently, but only if its actually better in some way than what already exists. This is worse in every way. It is a terrible design.
I know of a good home for that uni-hub, those forks and the wheels. Somehow, pedaling behind the hips seems like a waste of energy.
26 gear inches is ideal in infra-office transportation.
The suspension fork is necessary for smoothing out the wall to wall carpeting.
looks like it would be nearly impossible to pedal while seated. not to mention the damage it would inflict on the man-glands as noted above.