Sometimes, you just want to go ride your bike in the great outdoors, but you can’t be bothered throwing it in the back of the car. That wouldn’t be a problem if you rode this latest build from [The Q]: a bike small enough to fit in a handbag.
The build starts by customizing a rollerblade wheel to act as the driven rear wheel of the bike. It’s fitted with a tiny sprocket allowing it to be chain driven. Welding some steel tubes then nets a small diamond-layout bike frame. It’s fitted with a chain ring, pedals, and steering assembly just like a full-sized bike, just in absolute miniature.
Riding the bike is “uncomfortable,” in [The Q]’s own terms, but entirely possible. It basically requires the same level of contortion and technique as displayed by the clowns of your local circus. Don’t expect to use it as viable transportation, though. Walking would be much faster.
We’ve seen [The Q] build some wild bikes before, too, like this great hubless design. Video after the break.
Including the seat is very optimistic.
Bah, without the loop, it’s nothing… 😋
These are fun. Not too hard to ride. One tends to put their foot down and fall UP when there’s a problem, or just slowly roll onto one’s back in slow motion while laughing hysterically.
Does this come with circus music?
I already see the EU Commiession directive ordering people to commute using these green, environmentally friendly, low carbon footprint, planet cooling thingies. Eat insects, maggots!
Pretty large compared to this one. https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/trending-globally/sergey-dashevsky-russia-worlds-smallest-cycle-8075006/
My interpretation of a functional bicycle is a little different from this one.
Oh yikes, and I thought what I said to Lewin yesterday was mean.
There’s another “worlds smallest bike” in the collection of the technical museum in Vienna/Austria build (and actually ridden as a show act!) in the 1950s. https://data.tmw.at/object/181996 and it seems like there are a few other…I’d love to see a comeback of tiny bicycle riding 🚲🐁
I feel like we’re going to see that bike on an x-ray soon.