t ingermanson
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I LOVE IT! I would love to ride that thing! It's gotta be one of the most poorly concocted bicycles ever built. It is so bad it would be really fun to ride. Like, after a 12 pack, wearing a lot of pads, with a bunch of friends on a grassy hillside.
No seatstays and no pivot means there's nothing to stop the rear wheel from choosing a completely different plane in which to operate at any given moment. All the movement is coming from the chainstays (the smaller diameter tubes will flex way before that big diameter, thick walled tube wakes up from its nap). Which one of the stays will flex more over a given bump? Roll the dice. It's got horizontal dropouts (rear axle slots) with a cheapo QR skewer, so side-to-side rear steering movement is ON the table as well! That turd "rear shock" is just for show and will have zero effect on what direction the wheel will go.
No down tube and no pivot means there's nothing to stop the front wheel from choosing a completely different plane in which to operate at any given moment. The front end is gonna wag like crazy, with that long fork on the front and almost zero triangulation. Steering is overrated.
It'll never break because it's so awful, it'll NEVER reach its fatigue limit.
There's a lot of reasons why bicycle frames have been more or less the same double diamond design for the last 130 years. This thing threw all those hard-earned lessons completely out the window. It's perfect.
Someone will probably (definitely) get hurt (but probably not too bad).
@speirmoor, if you bought that thing, I wanna come over and ride it! I promise to wipe the blood off it when I'm done.
No seatstays and no pivot means there's nothing to stop the rear wheel from choosing a completely different plane in which to operate at any given moment. All the movement is coming from the chainstays (the smaller diameter tubes will flex way before that big diameter, thick walled tube wakes up from its nap). Which one of the stays will flex more over a given bump? Roll the dice. It's got horizontal dropouts (rear axle slots) with a cheapo QR skewer, so side-to-side rear steering movement is ON the table as well! That turd "rear shock" is just for show and will have zero effect on what direction the wheel will go.
No down tube and no pivot means there's nothing to stop the front wheel from choosing a completely different plane in which to operate at any given moment. The front end is gonna wag like crazy, with that long fork on the front and almost zero triangulation. Steering is overrated.
It'll never break because it's so awful, it'll NEVER reach its fatigue limit.
There's a lot of reasons why bicycle frames have been more or less the same double diamond design for the last 130 years. This thing threw all those hard-earned lessons completely out the window. It's perfect.
Someone will probably (definitely) get hurt (but probably not too bad).
@speirmoor, if you bought that thing, I wanna come over and ride it! I promise to wipe the blood off it when I'm done.
