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If he makes like some sort of vinyl platform below he could use it like a self-propelling boat. Would be really nice I think.
You should check out the Street Plane in Greensboro, NC. This street legal bicycle is the creation of a local poet/writer/blogger. He even pulls an advertising banner behind the plane like planes at the beach.
Ahhh cool bike *runs to look closer* … WACK WACK WACK *is slashed to ribbons*
There’s a wonderful flavor of anarchy about this thing – no wonder it upsets some cops, security guards and (no doubt) authoritarians in general. Goofing is its own reward. Heh.
Why wouldn’t you want to build something like this?
It’s a really cool bike…fairly useless but really cool. I’m sorry they didn’t shoot any night video.
I really admire the initiative to build something like that, but it just seems to me if you want to build a spinny blades of death device it should be gasoline powered.
Woman backs into propellor
Disaster
J/P=?
SN, check out this jet powered bicycle!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5437209871684663077
I question the wisdom of building something like this. The energy loss must be way over 50% compared to a direct drive bicycle. As several others have already mentioned, those spinning blades are a hazard.
Doing something just because you can does not imply intelligence. Solving a problem does.
10. I agree. Whenever I’m faced with this sort of project, I think how utterly complex and amazing it would be to build a popsicle stick bridge to the moon. And how equally pointless it would be. Merely because something is complex, difficult, or amazing to accomplish, does not in itself provide a basis to do it.