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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday November 14 2019, @02:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the great-for-low-branches dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

For those of us who were children in the late 80s and early 90s, we may have dreamed of one day owning a gigantic tractor trailer that could transform into a colossal fighting robot. Or of simply having a toy that could approximate this change from one form into another. As adults, though, we have come to realize that this is wishful thinking. That is, unless we decide to build this transforming bicycle.

You're thirty years late, you bastards.

Source: https://hackaday.com/2019/11/13/bicycle-transforms-mid-ride/, and a video of it in action for those who want instant gratification.


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  • (Score: 2) by EvilJim on Thursday November 14 2019, @10:09PM (1 child)

    by EvilJim (2501) on Thursday November 14 2019, @10:09PM (#920520) Journal

    I would have to disagree with that statement, although I was rather inebriated, think I rolled it three times... my reaction time was a bit slow to let go of the handlebars.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday November 15 2019, @02:21AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Friday November 15 2019, @02:21AM (#920587)

    I've never ridden a chopper bike, motor or pedal, but I did have one of the late '80s "highly maneuverable" early mountain bikes. For a very short time what they did to set these bikes apart was give them really low caster angles - close to straight up and down. It made it almost impossible to ride hands free, always wanted to dart off to one side or the other. Later "mountain bikes" went back to more traditional caster angles and were much less tippy. I rode that bike a LOT for about 5 years, and to make matters worse I installed some fashionable "aero handlebars" where you put your elbows on the normal handle bars and grab this thing that sticks out front, never did transfer the brake handles up there, so: no brakes for a couple of seconds when riding in the "down" position, and then I took it touring with 40lbs in saddlebags on the back - but, hey, I was 20 and immortal (apparently). Wiped out on the B5 between Hamburg and Berlin thanks to that setup - federal highway, lots of traffic, one lane of cobblestone and one lane of dirt, when the bike started to wobble I basically just put myself into the weeds rather than risking ending up on the ground in front of a bunch of West German tourists driving their BMWs far too fast for the road conditions.

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