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Don’t Try This At Home: Building a bicycle out of springs with Colin Furze

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One of our favorite tinkering madmen is at it again. Many of Colin Furze’s ideas could certainly be considered totally crazy, and this one is no different. This time it seems that Colin wondered, if bicycles are speced with shock absorbers, why not just make the whole bike frame a shock absorber?

Of course there are many reasons why this shouldn’t be done, but there is also one big reason why it should – youtube. Enjoy the madness.

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Crash Bandicoot
Crash Bandicoot
6 years ago

Vertically compliant and laterally compliant

Tom in MN
Tom in MN
6 years ago

and axially compliant and torsionally compliant…

caliente
caliente
6 years ago

Challenge: ACCEPTED

rogsim
6 years ago

That thing looks terrifying.

Derron Tanner
Derron Tanner
6 years ago

Seems like you’d want the seat stays to be springs also. LOL. #FAIL

Trent D
Trent D
6 years ago

This is a fun experiment but it’s not a bicycle made out of springs as the title suggests. This is a bicycle made of metal tubes that were cut and removed to have three springs installed in the main triangle. Just saying….truth in reporting is helpful

Padrote
Padrote
6 years ago
Reply to  Trent D

[a loud groan, lasting hundreds of years]

BigCottonwoodKid
BigCottonwoodKid
6 years ago
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Eggs Benedict a.k.a Darth Baller
Eggs Benedict a.k.a Darth Baller
6 years ago

Where to begin. After seeing some of this his other contraptions, how is he still alive?

Can’t believe he put his face that close to the cake-o-matic.

The built in anti-bunny hop device is called 30 pounds of springs (or 30 pounds of anything).

f*ingsteve
6 years ago

Nobody bunny hops mountain bikes, almost all of which these days weigh ~30lbs?

Eric Daume
6 years ago

It’s like a Slingshot taken to the next level. Or maybe the level after that.

David Milner
6 years ago

I’d very much like to see Dany MacAskill on that

cousin it
cousin it
6 years ago

Ball Epilator 9000 (patent pending)

glen evans
glen evans
6 years ago

well done

FFM
FFM
6 years ago

It’s 2018 and no disc brakes? Would not buy.

Andy
Andy
6 years ago

His name is funny in German…thats it.

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