All-side wheels, also called omnidirectional wheels, can be found on robots. Tinkerer James Bruton, on the other hand, builds a bicycle with such a wheel. Riding it requires electronic tricks.
Tinkerer James Bruton has built a strange bike. (Source: Screenshot YouTube)
- If you want to ride this bike, you have to forget everything you’ve learned so far about riding a bike.
- Instead of a normal front wheel, an “Omiwheel”, an all-side wheel, is installed.
- In a video, inventor James Bruton explains the construction and shows how he can turn the wheel on the spot thanks to electronics.
We’ve seen a lot of weird things when it comes to two-wheelers and even maintain a collection of crazy e-bikes and bicycles. So far, however, we have not encountered an omni wheel in a bicycle frame (which, unsurprisingly, Collin Furze contributed). We’ll make up for it here!
In an omniwheel, several rollers or cylinders form another wheel that can move in all directions. Such constructions are often seen in robots. But what is all this about a bike?
The former toy designer has numerous self-balancing robots in his basement that he built himself. Bruton also benefited from this experience when building the bike seen in the video. Because a similar technique is used so that he can turn the bike on the spot.
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He can operate the electronics for balancing on the spot from a control panel. It takes some time before he can keep his balance. But after some practice, Bruton can’t just drive his creation in a straight line.
He can even turn on the spot without having to take his feet off the pedals. The trick almost reminds us a little of the Mercedes-Benz G-Move.
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