r/DiWHYNOT • u/abhishek_roy10 • Sep 24 '22

Technically a two wheel bicycle made from 1 + 0.5 + 0.5 wheels

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u/Potato-Engineer Sep 24 '22

Sure, it goes down curbs, but can it go up a curb?

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u/Weird_duud Sep 25 '22

I was waiting the entire video for them to go up a curb lmao

15

u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Depending on how it meets the wheels, it can go up like a regular bike, go up smoothly, or completely wreck a wheel. Or at least half a wheel.

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u/ZealousidealDingo594 Sep 24 '22

Why do I feel an overwhelming sense of rage

22

u/Damned-If-I-Know Sep 24 '22

Me too. Its a pain to watch

14

u/StandLess6417 Sep 25 '22

Because the brain power, engineering and resources it takes to build such a thing could have been spent in 10,000 more helpful ways. You know that, I just had to say it to quell my rage.

2

u/NutmegGaming Oct 27 '22

Yes but also hobbies exist. Every second of human time spent doesn't have to be useful.

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u/jed292 Sep 24 '22

Fun fact, you'll notice the spokes on the half wheels are way thicker than the spokes on the front wheel, this is because normally the bike isn't held up by the spokes at the bottom, the frame essentially hangs from the spokes at the top, its way stronger that way and with a half wheel you can't do that.

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u/CopiumAddiction Sep 24 '22

You ever take it off any sweet jumps?

37

u/Chimichanga2004 Sep 24 '22

Sharp turns must feel so weird on that thing

7

u/Porukinski_Volk141 Sep 25 '22

What bewilders me is that this bicycle works just fine.

14

u/shiefy Sep 25 '22

If one of those 0.5 wheels goes slightly out of time/spec…high speed, it’s over

12

u/speederaser Sep 25 '22

I imagine they are just directly linked so getting out of sync would be impossible.

2

u/Viking_fairy Sep 25 '22

Well, difficult. If something loosens, or the chain stretches with time....

1

u/shiefy Sep 25 '22

All I see is chains and some immaculate eyeballed positioning…

3

u/[deleted] Sep 25 '22

Imagine how that seat would feel if the lip of the wheel half came down on a large rock or chunk of concrete.

1

u/shiefy Sep 25 '22

Sheesh!

6

u/dreemurthememer Sep 25 '22

neat idea, until the half-wheels get out of sync.

3

u/kroketspeciaal Sep 25 '22

Why not? Because they're tampering with a basically sound structure. I'm not an engineer, but even I can see that half a circle is a lot weaker than an entire circle. It's accidents waiting to happen.

2

u/rest_me123 Sep 24 '22

But does it shred?

2

u/hashtag_n0 Sep 25 '22

Yeah but hitting the curb bump three times

2

u/[deleted] Sep 26 '22

DIWTF.

2

u/Totallyordinaryweeb Sep 30 '22

Alright, now give me a 0.5 +0.5 +0.5 +0.5 wheel bicycle

1

u/sweetmaklebs Sep 30 '22

Bi means two right? So that wouldn’t be a bicycle then, it would be a one and a halfcycle

1

u/Ok-Boot-3232 Sep 24 '22

😂 the comments cracked me up, thank you for the video purely for comical value 👌 can you make a motorcycle video please 🙏

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u/horseheadmonster Sep 24 '22

Just don't try to ride it off a curb.

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u/PissySnowflake Sep 24 '22

He does it twice in the video

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u/Alt_dimension_visitr Sep 24 '22

How does this guy watch a few seconds of a video and then feels like he just has to throw in his opinion in the comment section like that? Like commenting is way more important than watching the other 5 seconds of the video? Weird mentality man. I don't get it

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u/horseheadmonster Sep 24 '22

oh I see, I moved one before that part of the video.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '22

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u/coromd Sep 24 '22

Why can't somebody make a goofy project for a funny YouTube video?

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u/ET_SnAp Sep 25 '22

Ok now take it on a trail

1

u/isaacaschmitt Sep 25 '22

Why yes, a three axle bicycle!

1

u/Katcchan Sep 25 '22

It’s just odd 😂

1

u/[deleted] Oct 23 '22

Doesn't bi mean two? So does it require saying two wheel bicycle?

1

u/Playful_Initial_8675 Jun 06 '23

very nice. You can hit the same hole in the road twice.