Comments on: Forkless Bicycle Design by Olli Erkkila

By: Westy

Westy — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:53:39 +0000

It’s a great bike and a great show of imagination and ingenuity, for all you Lycra clad tools, a bicycle does not have to be an instrument for you keep fit or just get to work, they are for fun, fun to ride, fun to build and just darn nice to look at, or do you hate getting on your carbon fibre, light as air (due to imagination and ingenuity) multi geared speed machine?

By: freda davies

freda davies — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 10:39:05 +0000

Love the design.
It will certainly get folks intrigued.
Freda, National Cycle Museum, Mid Wales

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:00:59 +0000

Its cool and very eye catching. If I saw one I may just fall off my own bicycle.

By: Bojo

Bojo — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:06:03 +0000

Cool, but useless and dangerous. I’d love to see one try and get it up a curb or make split second decisions on this. It’s like a fixed gear or big wheel bike, there’s a reason people don’t use them, same with this.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:35:08 +0000

that steering mechanism is sweet! you’ve given new meaning to the term ‘white knuckle ride’

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» Forkless Bike 8 days a week — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:25:14 +0000

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By: gordon

gordon — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:07:49 +0000

its cool and all but whats the point. its awkward and pointless

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:07:43 +0000

To the idiot wondering how it steers, just look at the pics. Self explanatory. To the idiot about going up slopes, your a f-ing moron. The world is fool of idiots. Sweet bike.

By: bill

bill — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:58:25 +0000

After reading other comments I must give some answers. First, for those who’ve never ridden a bike, most of the turning is done by leaning. There’s plenty of room for a right turn. Two, brakes, (breaks for those who can’t spell). the rear hub has a drum brake inside. Back pedal a little to apply. That’s right, no cables, calipers and levers to clutter the design. Three, its a pleasure bike for tooling around the neighborhood.Its not for road racing, mt. biking or BMX. Wearing your rainbow, gay, spandex and toy helmet won’t get the girls to look. They will be over with Olli fawning over and begging for a ride on his way cool bike!

By: bill

bill — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:12:47 +0000

Oh wow! A very clean, visually striking look. How does it feel to ride? Love the white-out too.