By Robert Emslie
There’s a big difference between getting older and growing up, and most of that is a factor of the size of one’s toys.
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This appears to have no motor except for the guy's legs. And given the size of its sprockets and the assumed gearing, it could probably be outrun by a shaky toddler. Still, awesome!
I guess this would be called a quinticycle?
"He who dies with the most toys still dies."
Somewhere there's actually videos of that thing moving. It's slow. That thing will have a ton of inertia…
And he'll have even more fun when he finally starts going at some speed and tries to slam on the brakes…
Put a humongous hamster inside the wheel and it'll go much faster!
And I was expecting this…
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I think I would have put an axle in between the two hubs. Just to keep my brain from doing what it's doing now, which is something like a slinky on an inclined treadmill. This thing doesn't work because it makes mechanical sense, it works because awesome. Awesome can substitute for physics. Little known law of the universe.
Oh, I just noticed the lack of a front axle. I guess the hub to "fork" connection is strong enough, or something.