Walking Bike

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Hi

I’ve just come across your Walking Bike - it’s awesome. I work for a magazine called shots - it’s basically a trade publication for the creative industries - and I’d love to include a story about your Bike in the this week’s newsletter. I was wondering if I’d be able to email you with a couple of questions? The news goes up on the site on Wednesday so if you could get back to me before then i would be really grateful.
Cheers!

Laura

LOVE the design and how creative it is! But the friction must be incredible! Plus, you’ll need a lot of shock absorbers!!

[...] 3, 2008 at 1:09 pm (movies/video/clips, neat!) The Walking Bike (via) is a bicycle with a shoe on the end of every spoke, instead of a traditional wheel. Finally, [...]

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“Keep on going… ”

“I’m trying.”

“…uhh.”

I’m an engineer in Canada. It occurred to me that if you welded some bent plate the the ends of the spokes, such that the “feet” all follow a circular path, you might make the ride a little easier. I know it’s more art than functionality, but I would love to see this bike fly down the street past onlookers.

Idea from here? Either way it’s cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh-a7Ke-QqM

i came to ur blog by chance…the bike desgin is awesome…i m also into making all type of stuff from waste thing..so we can b frnds.also i have made my blogging site……………
u can ckh it out………..i m finding interesting topic 2 write on from day to day life…………….

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i want to buy one

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nice build, Black Label bike cub, brooklyn has a bunch of these

Wow…freakin great. If I had legs like Lance Armstrong I could pedal the freakin thing..

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What happens when the shoe laces are untied?

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This is quite utterly pointless.

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This is fantabulous!! For the possibly realted posts, it directs to my blog, but I have recently split all the fitness off and moved all my fitness posts to this blog: http://accountablility.wordpress.com

Thanks!

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Well, its never going to fly, but if you want it to be rideable for short distances, simply reduce the gearing a LOT by fitting a very small crankset: 32 teeth will be more than enough, 28 teeth would be good.

This assumes the shoes never, ever, collide with the frame and slow it down…

Martin

Oooh, this brings me back to the 70s when one of these was shown in a TV game show. The purpose was to drive as fast or as original over a plank 10 cm wide laying over a canal. This one won the original prize. The next year, the same guy had a bike with shoes that actually walked instead of turned.
Sorry no pictures, but it was on Dutch TV.

Beautifully pointless.

to the engineer’s point about the curved plate, it might also walk more smoothly if it had more spokes and baby shoes.

please contact me.

mgill at freetimes.com

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Hi Max - I am a Features journalist with the World Entertainment News Network; I would like to write about your Walking Bike and wondered if you could contact me asap?

Many thanks
Clare.