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11 December 2005

Behold! the square wheeled bicycle

post by: dhruva at: 20:40 | 9 comments

Does the rider swing one of his arms around in the air while pedalling?

posted by Smart Dalek 11 December | 20:46

Is it bad that I immediately thought "Well, as long as it's riding on a series of curves, it'll be fine" before I clicked the link?

posted by Triode 11 December | 21:34

Yes. Yes, it's very bad.

mrs.pants drew an impossibly cute square-wheeled bicycle in her flickr sketchbook but I can't remember her flickr username. It's like...'feather duster' or something.

posted by iconomy 11 December | 21:50

Oh yeah...featherbed!

posted by iconomy 11 December | 21:57

"whole cities will be built around it!" /old segway hype

posted by amberglow 11 December | 22:26

The streets in L.A. are already set up for it.

posted by wendell 11 December | 23:40

This is an animation that has come with Mathematica for quite some time to show off its abilities.

I had a homework problem involving such an imaginary bike whilst working toward my degree. /geek

posted by teece 12 December | 00:06

i was just going to post what iconomy said. :)

posted by terrapin 12 December | 09:10

So far, no one has found a road-and wheel combination in which the road has the same shape as the wheel. That's an intriguing challenge for mathematicians.

Uh, how about circles?

posted by mendel 12 December | 14:22

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