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Incredible Folding Bike Concept from Cannondale called the Jacknife
treehugger.com — Cannondale has developed an amazing folding bike concept with a unique frame design, hydraulic drive and integrated lighting. This thing is damn beautiful, just check out the photo. I really hope it's brought to market as it's designed, though that doesn't sound likely.
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- nickburka, on 10/12/2007, -17/+2Here's an image of it folding: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4881/1620/1600/JackKnife300.jpg
- dburka, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14A little small, but here's another photo of it folding... I think this link works. http://www.hizone.info/data/2006/02/20/images/02.jpg
- acorn22, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yeah. At least 10 years old. Ah well.
- ccheath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3larger pics of folding action (tho they're rendered, not real)
http://212.227.38.137/web/radsport-rennrad/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=920&imgid=1218&subtopic=370&photonr=4
http://tinyurl.com/y96c6e
weird how digg is handling these links - BassCadet, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2If you live in a place that is so congested that there is no room to park it in a rack...how the hell are you going to ride it in the streets? Any of you people been to Manhattan lately? Things are so bad now that even bike couriers are having a hell of a time getting through the sea of yellow.
pointless contraption for people who masturbate to Wired magazine gadgets. - carapi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2BassCadet...this bike does look stupid, but your comment is asinine. You DO realize that A LOT of places do not even HAVE racks, don't you? More don't than do.
And even if they did, how does having a rack near where you want to park it being full (with a whopping 5 bikes tops to fill a rack) equate to the streets being so full that you can't ride on them?
Not to mention the assholes who decide to lock their bike up PARALLEL to the bike rack thus ensuiring that only 1 other bike can be locked that that rack.
- Pluckie, on 10/12/2007, -14/+5I'd feel like such a clown riding that thing in public.
- MikeToth1001, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I saw something like this about 10 years ago. And, it looked better, too.
Ahhh... The days of CNet TV and Soledad O'Brien... - pathy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+8So, I assume you were pretty god damn wasted when you called that... thing, beautiful?
- SpazticChips, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7...You linked to a news article from February,
BTW It's November
Seen it here before. - ScottMaximus, on 10/12/2007, -11/+7Wow....That is a seriously ugly bike.
- deedas, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Ooh, I like this bike. I hope it'll eventually get made. I really don't like the folding bikes I've seen so far.
- OpCzar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Rather than making the bicycle more compact, why not make the surroundings more compatible with this ecological transportation. I've noticed a multi-level bicycle rack in the recent movie "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift " that might might render this expensive design obsolete.
- Geener, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Storage isn't necessarily the only benefit to foldability. In a metro situation where transfering between various forms of public transit during a commute is common, compact foldability is a total boon.
- inmatarian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"make the surroundings more compatible with this ecological transportation"
Second this motion. Bike Lanes are a good thing. - Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1I think bike lanes are dumb because they cross turning lanes for cars. Cars and bicycles don't mix.
I also hate nothing more that waiting at a left turn light with some numb nuts biker sitting in the middle of the left turn lane waiting for enough room to peddle his/her slow bike across the street.
I lived it Tokyo for several years in the early 90s and everybody rode bikes on the sidewalk. That's how it should be (of course, their sidewalks are 3 or 4 times wider than ours; where they existed). - Grrrrrrrr8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cars and bikes don't mix that well, it's true, but bike lanes make it a whole lot easier.
Sorry to hear about you waiting for a left turn. I'm usually too busy trying to avoid getting killed by drivers who feel like running reds and driving way too fast.
There's stupidity on both sides, but the drivers have a few thousand pounds on their side so excuse me if I take your complaints a little less seriously.
- Orion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1These bike concepts have been around for quite awhile now....this is nothing new. You won't be seeing anything like this in the cycling tours anytime soon.
- krismon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5what's new is the hydraulic drive, not the folding.
- pixelguru, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Engineers are constantly trying to find a better bicycle drivetrain, but nobody has been able to make something that is simple, light and efficient enough to replace the linked chain and chainrings. I've seen various shaft and belt-driven attempts, but this is the first time I've seen hydraulics. I wonder how variable gearing would be accomplished. I also wonder what kind of fluid pressures would be generated, and how the resulting heat would be dissipated. 10 years ago, I wouldn't have thought that hydraulic disc brake systems could be made light and strong enought for mountain bikes, but they're now common, and quite an improvement over rim brakes, so I'd be the last person to say it isn't possible.
- GameCat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pixelguru:
I use a mountain bike for commuting. Its done 3200k in the last year and I maintaned the brakes this afternoon. Admittedly I didn't touch the hydraulics but the disk calipers would have to be 10 times easier to work on than traditional brakes.
You drop the wheel out, and the brake pads just flip out of the caliper. Everything stays aligned.
Its a thing of beauty.
Getting back to the driveline I would also be interested to see how efficent it is. For the type of commuting I do I already trade efficency for convenience by using a mountain bike.
A fold up bike like this would be really useful for plane trips where I want to ride at the other end.
- alikizmaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1folding a bike seems kinda pointless unless, someone come up with a really light design and make it fold into a size to fit in or hang on a backpack of some sort. but these guys' take on hydraulic-drive is kinda cool.
- rootneg2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As far as folders go I really digg the frame design; I'm not so sure about the hydraulic drive though, sound like self-maintainance would be impossible:
http://www.powerengine.com/aitx000liquidbik.htm
(different people, same idea..)
As it is though, I love my fixie :o)
I just think it's amazing that the good old double triangle frame with a fixed-gear chain drive is still around virtually unchanged, even on high-end racing rigs, after nearly two centuries. Somebody back in the 19th century deserves a design award... - xeno439, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Are there any pics of this thing actually folded? Seems pointless not to have those.
- lolwtfhaha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wow I didn't realize that a car takes like 1,500 Calories to go one mile while a bike/you uses like 50 Calories.
- peeter5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That's not surprising at all considering the car probably weighs 20X more than you. Actually, it's a testimony to how efficient the car is considering all of the moving parts required to move the car vs. the bike.
- Sottilde, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'm going to have to give peeter5 a big "hell no" here...
Efficiency numbers for cars are in the 20s to 30s. A bicycle is basically 100% efficient. Try basing your comments on fact.
- irie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1MTB= 'Ride Fast , Take Chances'
- UU7etc, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://www.foldingbikes.co.uk/dahon_folding_bikes_20.htm
not exactly a new design- ToddML, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Right, but that bike looks like its designed for a 60 year old woman.
- carapi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0AS an avid cyclist, it is hard enough to tell people I enjoy biking. IF anyone saw me on that ridiculous looking thing, I could never show my face again.
- macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually find it looks nice.
I personally own a 2003 Kona Scrap with discs, so it's not my type of bike.
- macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I actually find it looks nice.
- franksmith, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's not a bike...
IT'S A CONCEPT!
(in other words... never happen) - samatarosman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0I bike a ***** bike. I don't care it folds, eats, drinks or ***** fights. The purpose of a bike is to ride it, not fold it! i usually don't comment on stories but u sir mad me mad for just a stupid story! *****
- falloutsyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I like the compression scheme.
- GerryDaman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Folding bikes are EVERYWHERE in Korea...so this is not new at all.
The Daily Kimchi : http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com -- my blog on Teaching English in Seoul - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'd like a folding house.
- aadam819, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1screw tree huggers
- hutectro, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Cannondale is a great bike i own one i ride it all the time it gets me back and forth to Church every day and also round the city.
- Kwipper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This bike is not new. I have seen this bike advertised years ago. Or at least one like it.
No digg - oatilo, on 09/10/2008, -0/+1http://www.ve9.info love cannondale
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