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Friday, April 18, 2008

Not so much a taco'd wheel as a burrito'd wheel

Here's something from the whacko files that you may actually see in production in coming years: the folding bicycle wheel.

Or, you know, airlines could stop fleecing cyclists and actually allow regular bike boxes on planes. But that would be too easy.




It's not entirely clear what sort of tire/tube setup this dude is using, but safe to say it ain't sewups.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lordy, if the lawyers are having a field day with quick release, can you imagine what would happen if they got their mitts into this?

Matt said...

I took my bicycle to England in 1980 on a Northwest Orient (now Northwest, soon to be Delta) 747 in a United bike box and it was no additional charge. Ahh, those were the days.