They say riding a bike is fun, this bike seat intends to make it waaayyyy better, well at least for the ladies. Happy Ride seat from a UK company vibrates while you are on it, making the ride a pleasurable experience. Well, we guess that ought to encourage people to ride bicycles more, so it should be a good thing, right? Oh, oh, and I got a line:
Is that your bike seat, or are you really happy to see me?
Bicycles are very useful contraptions; you can pedal to reach your destination with relative ease, and get some good exercise. This pedal-less bicycle takes all the useful out of the bicycle, and reduces it to a very ridiculous burden. With this pedal-less bicycle, the user has the frame on their shoulders, they are supposed to run gather speed and then freely suspend themselves while the bicycle runs for maybe a few meters. You’d be lucky if you found a place to go downhill, and extremely terrible if you have to go uphill. Even the Flintstones probably wouldn’t find this much useful.
A Ferrari and a bicycle are the polar opposites in almost everything, except when they are the same thing. Austrian artist Hannes Langeder’s Fahrradi Farfall FFX is a custom made Ferrari, and a bicycle. Built to look like the track only supercar Ferrari FFX, the Farfall FFX does not boast a V12 engine, F1 technology or the magnificence of the prancing horse, what it does have is street legal status in Austria and pedal power.
Jeni Oye mixes up old bike tires with aluminum to create these wonderfully creative puffs and pendants. We’re pretty sure bike lovers would appreciate these things.
Via Design-Milk
Developed by Dr Geuro, the Primer V2 is a tiny robot that knows how to keep its balance on a bicycle, and can even push his miniature bicycle to speeds up to 6mph. The robot makes use of centrifugal force from the front wheel and a gyroscope to stay balanced and drive the bicycle.
You can make a bicycle the traditional way, finding metal and parts and bending them to shapes that would eventually form a bicycle. Or you could go the way of Alexander Vittouris who just went on to “grow” his bicycle. Plants are usually made to grow into various shapes using a technique called arborsculpture, Alexander used the same technique to have bamboo grow into forming the skeleton for his bike, Ajiro.
In some different dimension, this removable windshield and roof system would actually serve to protect the bicyclist from bad weather. In this world, the poor cyclist won’t stand a chance again gusts of wind, and will have to deal with the weird appendage limiting visibility.
Via: Toxel
Danube Bicycle is a kinetic sculpture that artist Zoltan Kecskemeti intends to have installed in the Danube River at Budapest, Hungary. Flow of the water moves the wheels of the bicycle, which in turn moves the legs of the rider, getting the kinetic sculpture in motion.
Via: designboom
Via: BeautifulLife
We’ve seen Bond driving classy and expensive cars, but never has he touched a bicycle. Well Mr. Bond, here’s a bicycle for you. This bike has flamethrowers in its handles, an ejector seat, caterpillar tracks for the rear wheel, and a ski up front. All that should be enough to make it a Bond bike. Created for London’s cycle show by ilovemybike, the bike is just a concept and won’t be available for sale. Also, we’re pretty sure that even though James Bond is shedding his high-tech out of the world gadgetry, he still won’t be seen on a bicycle.
Via: Gizmodo