Recently, I’ve been thinking about buying a new bicycle because I could do with the exercise. I really should return to learning to ride my off-road unicycle, but I’m starting to think that’s more of a younger man’s game.
Ideally, I’d like something that would stand out in the crowd and separate me from the herds of cyclists that roam around our neighborhood.
There’s an old saying that tells us: “Don’t reinvent the wheel.” Apparently, an engineer called Sergii Gordieiev failed to receive the memo about this. My chum Jay Dowling just sent me a link to this video that shows Sergii reinventing the wheel like an Olympic champion.
As one commenter said: “You really are the personification of ‘Trust me, I’m an engineer!’” But I think it was another reviewer who really nailed things as follows:
Everyone: “You can’t reinvent the wheel.”
This guy: “Hold my beer!”
Of course, watching this caused me to wander off into the weeds looking at a weird and wonderful collection of wheeled implementations. How about you? Do you have a favorite bicycle-inspired video you’d care to share?
From the rabbit hole your video sent me down… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lzUBCRBJeg
OMG — I want one!!! As always, I’m brought back to the “Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out” video https://youtu.be/K_7k3fnxPq0
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1629893843986894/?multi_permalinks=2850847045224895¬if_id=1656550964066799¬if_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif
Hi Rafe — I usually don’t approve links on their own, but I checked it out and it’s for the “All Things Bicycling” group on Facebook so I OK’ed it (you shoudl have said 🙂
I use ebike and metro in los angeles. Last Friday did about 140 miles with 35 ebike rest metro.
Raced a dump truck with trailer down wilshire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNsgLWAR8Rs
Hi Rafe — this is an AWESOME video — in return, may I share “Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out” video https://youtu.be/K_7k3fnxPq0
Hi clive
Pls do. I built worlds fastest lightest ebike. But everyone laughs at me. Sob..
Rafe
Said it before and I’ll say it again. Some guys got waaaay to much time on their hands….
But you would love to have one of these little beauties, right? 🙂
If I had one of those little beauties, the chain would come off and the wheels would get out of sync, which would make for an even bumpier ride… (It’s called Sod’s Law…)
One thing I did wonder, how did he keep the half tyres pumped up? I did see him using rivets to hold them on but I assume he used solid tyres or something?
I think he used solid tires — I really would love to have one of these 🙂
Why not just use two complete wheels at the back? Then if one got damaged, you could still ride. Not sure, but the front wheel looks the same size. Difficult to organise probably, but make the wheels interchangeable with a couple of tools and you’ve got a pretty fail safe mode of transport…
Did anyone notice he blew out the front tire to trigger the reinvention of the back tire? Talk about a solution looking for a problem! 🙂
That’s why he’s my hero — he thinks outside the whatsit 🙂