What advantage does a hubless bike bring to the table?
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2024
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No way for street toughs to shove rebar through your spokes and send you flying over the handlebars so they can steal your baguettes and celery.
Same as folding phones I guess; novelty.
Folding phones does bring a practical use to the table, you get a phone that you can fold out into a tablet that fits in your pocket.
To be fair, flip phones prevent unwanted user input and protect the screen.
Looking neat?
Thst is a design advantage, I'll grant you that, but it seems way less practical than a normal wheel.
That's very likely because it is way less practical than a normal wheel.
That's my point, I don't see why a hubless wheeled bike deserves top billing in an article about new better biking consepts.
It doesn’t but it looks cool and intrigues people which means more clicks.
I don't know if it's an advantage, but I've seen one lately, and it was fucking loud.
Like eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee loud.
Stop trying to make hubless wheels work. A normal bicycle wheel is stronger, lighter, simpler, and the bearings only have to handle the lower speed at the center of the wheel, instead of the speed found closer to the rim.
"...bu-bu-but they look neat!"
Electric mountain bikes aren't allowed on mountain in Colorado but keeping those asshats out is kind of a pain. They bought the expensive toy, now it's everybody else's problem because the money spent justifies that.
I'm guessing this is mostly about what are effectively electric motorbikes. In Finland you're not allowed to drive motor vehicles on other people's land without their permission but pedal assist eBikes with 250W motor and limited to 25kph (15mph) are considered bicycles by law and those you are allowed to ride anywhere.
Vehicle culture is just generally different here in the United States. Even if sane, rational rules for ebikes were to be established they'd be ignored out of spite. For any idea of the quality of individuals I'm talking about, yesterday I saw two separate vehicles enter the bus station by passing the "DO NOT ENTER" sign, realize that the road they were on wasn't going to their fucking hotel or wherever they were heading, drive up onto the pedestrian portion of the bus station, turn around, and leave the wrong direction on a one way street. Speaking specifically for bicycles I've been doing trail maintenance and had a mountain biker come at me screaming because we were out there working and were in his way after he passed a sign telling him the trail was closed and climbed a fence we put up just after the sign as a result of previous and similar incidents.
Edit: I should probably clarify what I meant by 'on mountain' that's just kind of shorthand slang for the property controlled by the local ski resort. Though the feds have similar rules, so buying an electric mountain bike around here is stupid since all you've done is spent at least another $2,000 on a bicycle you can't legally use outside of your private property.
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