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Posted by hipstomp | 6 Apr 2011
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Similar in minimalist philosophy (if not in form) to JRuiter + Studio's city bike is this Gravity Bike by Jeff Tiedeken, a.k.a. Monkey Likes Shiny.
As you can see there's no drivetrain and the crank has been locked, with the pedals replaced with mere foot peg holders. In testing, Tiedeken has reportedly done 60 m.p.h. plus on this thing. Someone get this man a GoPro camera.
There's a Flickr page full of shots of the finished product here, and MLS has a blog entry from last year featuring the prototype shots.
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Did this 20 years ago flip over bmx frame use avoxet slicks and bannan seat
Drive up mtn pass fly down :)
Gorgeous! Even the stand is amazing.
I'll race ya!
FUN.
Wheelbase seems short, and I question the flip-flop disc brake mounts, but it sure looks fun.
looks like he really, really liked the design of the worlds fastest indian that stars in the eponymously titled, 'the worlds fastest indian.'
@Me You gotta check those things before you go. What if someone was taking pictures? ;-)
We used to do downhill 'bomb-runs' all the time as kids. Wasn't until I got a motorcycle years later, that I figured out we must have been doing 50+ on our old Schwinns.
Had a hill at the gravel pit where us kids played with a bump at the end. After going over the handlebars and knocking my teeth out at 8, I've never been able to look at a hill the same way.
Love the look of this bike but I'm going to need to see a 60mph gravity unicycle before I'll be impressed.
might wanna throw some zipp 808 tubies on there
lOVE the look of the bike, but i cant help thinking its just a "cafe racer" frame without an engine. Not that that is a dad thing!
I know it makes a good headline for folks who don't know much about bike racing, but 60mph is a fairly common speed for a stock road bike in a very fast descent.
The world records are more than twice that speed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_records#History_of_downhill_records
The flip side is that your Schwinn never went that fast. People always over-estimate their speed on a bicycle without a speedometer.