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The Amazing Collapsing Bike

Having just gotten off my first bike ride in eight years (22 miles, one faint heart attack, and years of required therapy), this video struck a cord. Dominic Hargreaves has invented this incredible collapsing bike.


As for my bike ride, I expect this is another transparent effort of Leslie to do me in to make way for our young pool guy (the curious thing is that we don’t have a pool). Fortunately, the rhythmic stabbing chest pains helped me keep pace along the C & O canal.

I will send the rest of my afternoon looking into liposuction alternatives.

18 thoughts on “The Amazing Collapsing Bike”

  1. After being out of town on vacation with my wife’s siblings, it was neat to see this article about the folding bike. I do a lot of bike riding as I do a 70 mile bike ride for MS in June and my old body needs a lot of training to make it through that two day ride. This invention will be very popular and this guy will be making a few bucks. I have to echo what Dredd stated, I want one of these bikes!

  2. Good ole Nashville: One of the last position of “Hope” for the Confederate Army. I think this is Franklin County where one of the bloodiest battles where about 9,500 soldiers died in the Army of Tennessee. It remained at least in Brig Gen Hoods mind, it was his hope to route Sherman outta Georgia.

    Federalist: Victory
    CSA: Loss

    Drive safe and will see you when you get back.

    PS

    If I remember General Hood resigned his commission after that skirmish

  4. Swarthmore Mom,

    Glad you are back safely. I will see you tomorrow?

  5. Swarthmore Mom 1, August 4, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    I bike about five nights a week in the Dallas area when the temperature drops to 90 degrees at about 8:30. I started riding again about 3 years ago. It is so bad that I ride on the sidewalk.

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    I used to drive on the side walks as well. For some reason the cops, pedestrians and cyclist took offense that a 4wheeled vehicle would want to occupy the same space as them, go figure. The railroads tracks were too bumpy but I tried. Then I figured out the problem, there is a solution.

  6. I bike about five nights a week in the Dallas area when the temperature drops to 90 degrees at about 8:30. I started riding again about 3 years ago. It is so bad that I ride on the sidewalk.

  8. pardon me?

    Where do you live in Ft Worth area? I am in the Preston Hollow area. Wanna meet for coffee?

  10. Hells bells! Let me try again!

    (pardon me if this shows up multiplied.)

    dang prefix. i thought i wrote incumbent, when in fact, should be recumbent. it’s ergonomic and laid back.
    See “Recumbent bicycle” in Wikipedia.

    And please take it easy, Professor.

  12. Bike riding in Dallas is a circus act within itself. Austin, dedicated bike lanes and the fines are excruciating for the offending motorist that would chance a bike lane. It is good fun. cough cough.

  13. This would certainly create a stir pulling it through an airport and getting it through TSA security. I wonder if it would fit in an overhead bin.

  14. pardon me?,

    Thanks for the interesting link. As a kid who spent many hours with erector sets, I had a heartfelt pure geek moment. Those are neat. I’m not sure how practical in some locations they’d be (Dallas = Death), but I can see where they’d be fun to ride. A bit hard to be smooth on while chatting up any of the young ladies other than the rare and elusive Flintstones fanatic perhaps, but fun.

  16. A few months ago, a juggler friend (they have weird, neat stuff) rode me around on his 2-wheeled, 2-side-by-side- seated bike. Great for conversing, and i didn’t have to pedal!

    I’d like to try an imcumbent bike, or a rhoades car.
    http://www.rhoadescar.com/jumpshow.htm

  17. By the time you’ve prepped the bike for riding, and unprepped it at the end of the ride, you could’ve walked.

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