Bintz Shin
I agree with the developer about the possibility of More Power as an uphill machine.
Slowburn
I like being able to kick free of the bike if say the front rim fails.
SamB
At least your bike won't get stolen.
Stuart Wilshaw
Just what you need if the bike falls over at speed, stuck in the frame!
Jeff Rosati
There could be an entire website dedicated to failed bicycle inventions.
Mirmillion
Too funny. I thought that, for all the trouble and radical design, the rider's bobbing motion would be used to drive the rear wheel.
In this case, all he needs to achieve the same effect is a spring-loaded bar that attaches to the seat post (or bracket) which then arches around to the rider's back; the contact point being a padded & somewhat body-formed brace which can be disengaged and reengaged as the rider desires. The rider's will need to be able to set the tension according to their own preference or pain threshold. Staying with a seat will ensure that max force is transmitted through the legs as no rearward redirection of forces will be possible, as they would be with a simple sling.
Fredrik Pettersen
They should call it The Ball Squeezer 4000!
wle
how silly
would sell more as the DCJ-34B the "Decolletage Jiggler"
wle
" It’s worth noting that Jim Hurd, the former curator of the Bicycle Museum of America, says that at the turn of the century there were two buildings in Washington DC that held every patent in the U.S. One building held patents covering every type of product you can think of. The other building was reserved specifically for bicycle patents. It’s a manifestation of how much energy had gone into refining the bicycle and it’s the reason why it’s such a challenge for modern designers to make any sea-change improvements."
wle
also
there isn;t any need to add extra muscles to the quads
the heart/lung/oxygen can;t even fully support them in most people
this is why adding the arm muscles, for instance, doesn;t add anything
well - except for: weight cost, and indignity
wle
Al Dutcher
As in the article go recumbent, Way more comfy. Ive been bent for 20 yrs and wont go back.