Folding Penny-Farthing Is a Closet Unicycle

[~IronMan~]

David Damshek's Diamove Concept is cute but flawed


David Damshek’s Diamove manages to tick most of the boxes on the concept bike clichéd feature list. Take a look:

• Hubless wheels ☑
  
• Weird folding design ☑
  
• Concealed cabling ☑
  
• Clever looking but unspecified drive system ☑
  
• Weak, non-triangular frame ☑
  

The Diamove may have a tiny, thin head-tube taking all of the bike’s structural stresses, a seat that is adjustable by a mere few inches, and a handlebar-stem that looks as if it would snap off in seconds, but it does have some good looks. Those bull-horn handlebars look great, and fairly comfy, and the penny-farthing (p-far) design-motif is clearly the Next Big Thing. And the front-wheel-drive eliminates the risk of wheely-ing on the short wheel-base.

But given that this bike looks pretty unstable, and that even when folded it is bigger than the Bromptons and Dahons you can already buy, we wonder why you’d bother. Oh, and there’s also the small point that it would be impossible to ride in anything but a straight line: Imagine pedaling whilst also steering with the front-wheel-drive setup, and then imagine the resulting fall and subsequent impalement on those bull-horn bars.

Single Motion Folding [Yanko]

See Also:

• Retro-Looking Penny-Farthing Freak-Bike
• Behold! The Car-Crushing Monsterbike
• YikeBike: Cute Electric Penny-Farthing
• Gorgeous Folding Bike Places Form Far Above Function

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