Design

Nulla Minimalist Bike Concept Dispenses With Spokes, Most of Frame

Designer Bradford Waugh came up with Nulla (meaning “nothing”) as a way of making bikes more stylish and lightweight. And visually stunning of course. Lacking spokes, it uses a direct-gear-chain drive system, which leaves the bike looking like a simple set of open curves. Whether or not it would ride well would be immaterial, methinks: rock up to a cycling meet on this thing and you’d have an instant bunch of admirers. Just a concept… but who knows, it looks exactly sort of thing we’re riding in twenty years time. [Tuvie]


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  • David

    Bike looks gay.

  • xenologer

    Direct Gearing the wheel from the rim is stupid. Defeats the mechanical advantage that wheels give to allow high speeds.

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