Pine on Bike (New Photo)
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Interesting bike.
Nice take on early-to-mid 23rd century bikes. Makes one wonder if the real thing will look similar in 100 to 200 years...provided bikes even exist anymore.
Are the wheels actually supposed to be spokeless as some folks have suggested, or is it just that the thing is in motion?
looks different than the one in the trailers... could be more less than adequate vision without glasses...
No, I thought the same thing, and had my glasses on.
looks different than the one in the trailers... could be more less than adequate vision without glasses...
Edit: Comparing them, however, it may be no more than the difference in lighting (trailer not in bright sunlight) and the difference in camera angle (most of the shots in the trailer in which you get a look at the bike are from a POV looking down on it, while this is looking up.)
I'd thought also that the one in the photo looked smaller, but I don't think it's really the case. The overall shape seems the same and both have the same stuff in front of the handgrips.
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I will only comment the wheel thing with this:
http://www.lgblog.de/2009/01/27/motorradrader-ohne-speichen/
http://www.lgblog.de/2009/01/27/motorradrader-ohne-speichen/
No, I thought the same thing, and had my glasses on.
looks different than the one in the trailers... could be more less than adequate vision without glasses...
Looks the same to me
I don't think that's quite the same idea, but still kinda cool.
Yeah, I went and looked at the trailer again and edited another comment into to my post above.
It is spokeless.
So Spock and Kahless walk into a transporter room...
"Take my Trek AWAAAAAAAAAY...."
Cool.
Love the spokeless aspect, different and kinda a way to let the audience know its not your usual bike of today.
Love the spokeless aspect, different and kinda a way to let the audience know its not your usual bike of today.
He should have rode this instead.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundabergtim/309204057/
The hubless wheels have been rolling around the motorcycle scene here and there. I guess there's two approaches: one involves a chain going around the inner wheel and the other is to have a smaller wheel that makes contact with the rear wheel and moves it through friction. The friction thing I guess is like those pictching machines that launch baseballs with spinning wheels. The chain seems a better design but there needs to be a larger area of contact with the drive wheel.
The front wheel where you don't have to work to drive it has two rims, the forks make contact with the outer rim, and the inner rim spins within it, resting on ball bearings I believe.
I'm no mechanical/motorcycle type guy, I just read up on these a while back out of curiousity as to how they work.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bundabergtim/309204057/
The hubless wheels have been rolling around the motorcycle scene here and there. I guess there's two approaches: one involves a chain going around the inner wheel and the other is to have a smaller wheel that makes contact with the rear wheel and moves it through friction. The friction thing I guess is like those pictching machines that launch baseballs with spinning wheels. The chain seems a better design but there needs to be a larger area of contact with the drive wheel.
The front wheel where you don't have to work to drive it has two rims, the forks make contact with the outer rim, and the inner rim spins within it, resting on ball bearings I believe.
I'm no mechanical/motorcycle type guy, I just read up on these a while back out of curiousity as to how they work.
Im not into mopeds or bikes myself, but if this thing actually existed on the open market I'd be jonesin' to own one.
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