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bubble wrap bikeVideo: the bubble wrap bike
Making your bike sound like a motorbike has been a staple for generations. Doing it old school requires nothing more than a cornflake box or ice cream tub, some scissors and a peg. And there's off-the-shelf solutions too: remember the Turbospoke?
Anyway, comedy magician Eric Buss has taken things to a whole new level with this invention, the bubble wrap bike. Okay it's an expensive and short-lived way to get your bike to go vroom vroom. But it looks and sounds ace. We want one.
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.
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Just the ticket for informing other users of your approach on a shared facility. Saves having to ring the bell........Bell? Whats' a bell?
You could throw the satnavs away, coz you could retrace your route, UCI might not allow it for racing though, is it a fairing???
Great idea, poor execution. Should have gone to Red Bull and get sponsored for a park rider to bust some moves with this. Or maybe the JackAss team.
With an internet full of perfectly good cat pictures why do we have to put up with this frackwit? At the design stage someone should have said "Even if it works, it won't be worth it".
Comparing pot holes are we....
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.3139,-0.000512&spn=0.001392,0...
Mines bigger than yours
That's not a Pothole. That's a Landslide!
Oh, those potholes on Hesiers have been there for years. They fill them in (badly), the stuff comes out. Rinse, repeat. Turn left after that and go down the hill - you get cars dumped and set alight, idiots dumping a lorry of rubbish - every time we take new club members out, we have to warn them.
Anyway - back on topic - I'd like to see this idea extended - in a group, you could do some good paceline training by requiring every bubble to be popped
Although I wouldn't like to do it in a headwind...
If this idiot wants to waste fossil fuel and make a noise, why doesn't he just get himself a Harley-Davidson?
Might get one for my road bike. Could do with it to protect my tyres from the Essex pot holes!
Trust me. Essex pot holes are nothing compared to Bucks potholes