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as the chequered flag waves, designboom looks back on the two-week-long, world’s most extreme racing adventure – the dakar rally.
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the SONDORS metacycle is equipped with a 4000 watt hour 72 volt battery that gives you the ability to roam free up to 80 miles.
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the mink 2.0 sports camper is a fully-equipped heated mini camper with an outdoor kitchen and a panorama roof.
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both the mechanical and R&D teams at sunreef yachts worked on every aspect of the car to combine a knowledge of green tech with a passion for motorsports.
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bad taste
Karl Drais introduced his Wooden horse in 1817. Pierre Michaux, a Frenchman, introduced the pedals to the bicycle around 1865. So there is no German connection to the design of this modern bicycle and the ones who came up with the story in this article didn’t do their homework. BASF has no history in early bicycle design so why trying to make this connection? And there is one other thing I don’t understand. BASF is known for making life more practical. So why do a remake of an inpractical bicycle design.
Just a note; Karl Drais invented the ‘laufsmachine’ in 1817, and Nicéphore Niépce coined the term ‘velocipede’ the next year, as he improved the design (and later invented photography!). The ‘big wheel’ bicycle, called the ‘ordinary’ or Penny-Farthing, appeared in the 1870s, and was made obsolete by the ‘safety’ bicycle, a design still dominant, in the mid-1880s.
They have done their best to make it ‘flashy’, but the construction and ergonomics seems to be very outdated, and unstable.
Watch both men cycling in the movie at ’47 and ’55. Looks to me like a two year old child on a tricycle…
Whats the advantage of this “old” layout over the modern one?
This pedaling position is probably the least ergonomic I have EVER seen