带有减震功能的自行车一般通过前叉和后叉减震,缓解来自从上、下两个方向的作用力。英国工业设计师Sam Pearce对传统自行车车轮进行了重新设计,设计出了一款内置悬架装置的自行车车轮Loopwheels,通过中轴和瓦圈之间的弹簧系统减震。 正如其名字所解释的 ...
BikeRadar first reported on Loopwheels last month, during coverage of the Bespoked Bristol show. Since then, the spokeless suspension concept has thrived via a pledge on crowdsource funding website ...
When BikeRadar attended last week's Bespoked Bristol show the last thing we thought we'd come across was someone who had reinvented the wheel. How wrong we were... Step in Sam Pearce from Loopwheels, ...
When you have plenty of bicycle to work with, such as is the case with a mountain bike, it’s not such a big deal to design it with front and rear suspension. When the bicycle in question is a ...
Although most mountain bikes now feature suspension forks (and often rear shocks), road bikes are typically – but not always – still fully rigid. That said, a few devices have been created to help ...
The wheel is being taken for a loop. A British industrial designer has come up with a revolutionary alternative to the traditional spoked bicycle wheel that uses flexible curved springs to support the ...
Why reinvent the wheel? Because sometimes it makes for a better bike. Loopwheels are a completely new type of bicycle wheel, designed with a unique built-in suspension that makes for a delightfully ...
Entrepreneurs love to claim they’re “reinventing the wheel." So what do you say when you’ve actually reinvented the wheel? “I love spokes, I’ve just come up with something different," explains Sam ...
The Loopwheels project, funded by Kickstarter, is now in production, with tooling having landed with the inventors of the wheel concept last week. Working closely with Nottinghamshire bow-makers KG ...
The product in question is Loopwheels, a shock-absorbing wheel with a unique, integral suspension system. It was created with the help of an Araldite composite bonder and has been nominated for the ...