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Actually a bike.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/choka/choka-air-inflated-bikes#

WTACTUALFLIPPINGFLIP?

I mean, why? Solution in search of a problem here, chaps!


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 8:02 pm
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I quite like the ingenuity of it. Not a totally daft idea but I wonder how much the frame tubes need beefing up to take reliable pressure or do you wrap em in gaffer tape in a getto inflator style.


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 8:14 pm
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"I used to design luxury goods in Paris.... Tsssk."

Sounds like she's pissed at something: having to design bike tubes inside frame tubes - or the Paris thing.


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 9:00 pm
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I was hoping for a pump driven by the cranks in some way.

Disappointed.


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 10:15 pm
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It's an interesting idea to embed what is effectively an Airshot into a frame, but I can't see it being enough of a killer app for anyone to chose a bike specifically because of this.


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 10:27 pm
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I had a very similar idea a while back and then thought "nah, nobody would ever want that!"... But it's not a bad idea at all.

But we live in a world of SWAT boxes and other crap hidden inside frames now, I don't think a compressed air tank inside the downtube is a bad idea at all when you actually think about it...

Their Kickstarter won't go far, they might get funded and flog a few, but these things almost all fizzle out... Of course if the IP is well protected they might just be able to sell it to the likes of SBC or Trek?

I should have thought "hey we're designers" like those two and then flogged the bloody patent.
Bloody millennials, daring to have conviction in their own ideas!


 
Posted : 16/10/2020 10:38 pm
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Hmm, I wonder what else you could pressurise in there. You know how some motorbikes hold fuel or engine oil in the frame? Maybe you could fill this one up with liquid haribo at 100psi


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 12:12 am
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I don't like the idea of a frame full of air at 100psi. Think of the extra weight.

What happens when you get a second puncture?


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 12:30 am
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What happens when you do a Greg Minaar and wrap it around a tree?


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 12:37 am
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Could they set the valve facing backwards with a Knight Rider style 'turbo boost' button on the bars?


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 12:40 am
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Clever idea, the frame should hold pressure easily.

My concern would be condensation build up in the frame.

I always thought a droper that was a pump would be genius


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 9:28 am
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Fill it with helium, instant weight saving.


 
Posted : 17/10/2020 9:59 am