(most likely bonkers, actually)

Fed up with chains, dont like belt drives. Check this out:

bonkers can also be brilliant

however that’s not guaranteed

I’m oot

I’ll let the tech bed in for a decade or two, then give it a try.

Stringbike 2014 🙄 😆

Solution in search of a problem.

dumb, over complicated and uses poxy twist grips. 🙁

Intriguing and admirable but I won’t be an early adopter

Kind of cool – but over-complicated!

Amazing how far they’ve come in 2 years

Over complicated solution to a non existent problem. Cool idea though.

No disc brakes, not interested. 😉

Kind of cool – but over-complicated!

This. I wonder how durable it is; maybe the answer is to give one to MidlandTrailquestsGraham to try?

Bobbins. (See what I did there?)

Fantastic solution to something that isn’t needed.

What would be the benefit over conventional ?

I can’t see it working very well when it’s wet or muddy either

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It’s one of those ideas – and I see them quite often – where the inventor gets so emotionally invested in the design that they can’t take a step back and say “why would anyone want this?”

At least the old baler twine I always have in my back pocket would have a use. I could be the most popular riding companion out there 🙂

I saw that at the NEC last year, it’s a great idea when everything’s nice and new and clean and dry but give it a day soaked in rain and road grime and it’d be just as manky as a chain.

Their thing to turn a wheelchair into a tricycle may not be such a bad idea?