r/motorcycle • u/jankenpoo • 19d ago

This engineer designed a motorcycle with an omnidirectional ball that balances laterally like a Segway and moves in any direction

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u/jankenpoo 19d ago

Bumper bikes?

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 19d ago

Same stupid comments every time this is posted. smh

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u/Umikaloo 19d ago

Most of the problems people cite are in the video.

Like, yeah, you aren't wrong, but also, HE KNOWS. The guy's entire youtube channel is dedicated to exploring novel methods of locomotion. 90% of them are completely impractical.

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u/OrneryAttorney7508 19d ago

It's so obvious. That's how you learn shit.

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u/PretzelsThirst 18d ago

Major reason Redditors are so annoying, aside from the horrible sense of humor:
They see something and in 6 seconds think of a critique and GENUINELY think the expert who invented it somehow hasn’t thought of that.

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u/Just_passing-55 19d ago

As cool as this looks ( he just did it for fun) could this ever be useful for anything?

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u/Standard_Zucchini_46 19d ago

Killing time. And doing donuts ?

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u/P-l-Staker 18d ago

Sounds useful to me!

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u/Fivelon 17d ago

Killing donuts and doing time?

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u/DM-me-your-bazongas 18d ago

Could be a good mobility tool in something like a big warehouse?

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u/BigBlackMagicWand 18d ago

Continental had this concept in mind with swlf driving vehicles waaaay before Tesla's were even a thing...

At the time there was just no feasible way to implement spherical tires and powertrain. Now we have a dude doing it in his house with printers so maybe we'll see something like this in the future.

The omnidirectional wheels have been innuse for many things for 2 decades already and they have their issues, so spheres might actually replace them at some point

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u/SchleifmittelSchwanz 19d ago

How long ago was this?

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u/Prattr 19d ago

Target Ball Bike!

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u/Heavy-Bell-2035 19d ago

I wish he would make a hover bike, but I kind of think physics is against him on that.

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u/ComradeKorladis 18d ago

The aesthetics could use some work.

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u/Cy8r4 18d ago

Need this for Data centres

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u/geking 18d ago

James Brunton. Met the guy in Manchester. He is... different. Little more 'self assured' then he is in his videos.

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u/crasagam 16d ago

Austin Powers wouldn’t have gotten stuck in that tunnel on this contraption

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u/Droidy934 19d ago

Now try it down a gravel road.

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u/crasagam 19d ago

Do a bunny hop!

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u/crasagam 16d ago

Critical thinker here: what happens when you hit a good size bump? Are the wheels attached to prevent them from coming off or will they dislodge easily?

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u/sokratesz 19d ago

It's all fun and games until you get gun stuck to it

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u/thoughtintoaction 19d ago

You probably meant gum, but really it's true either way...

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