John Villareal, a senior designer, designed a Futurist Bicycle. He says, it is "a design that shows a peek into the future as materials and manufacturing advance. Our ability to manufacture lighter frames with increasing strength of materials will allow us to make shapes that today would structurally fail." What makes this design really cool are the hubless wheels, hubless pedal-crank assembly, and the connection for the crossbar, which looks like it is adjustable to make the bike smaller for storage. Another cool feature are the wheels. they appear to have only two pieces of rubber and chain in the middle of them. I have seen a prototype bike from students from Yale who had to create a similar bike for an assignment for class. I can almost see, that this is how our bikes will look like in the future, when we have the right materials to actually manufacture them.
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