Comments on: Steampunky concept motorcyle http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 04:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: timquinn http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644475 timquinn Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:24:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644475 You guys ever been to a car show? Take it on its own terms. Next you will be saying that that cape would never make Superman fly. You guys ever been to a car show? Take it on its own terms. Next you will be saying that that cape would never make Superman fly.

]]> By: timquinn http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644474 timquinn Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:21:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644474 yeah, but. yeah, but.

]]> By: timquinn http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644470 timquinn Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:13:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644470 As I look at it again I take it all back. Too much stress on those joints any way I can imagine attaching them. Would like to have a closer look though. To see if he gave it any thought. As I look at it again I take it all back. Too much stress on those joints any way I can imagine attaching them. Would like to have a closer look though. To see if he gave it any thought.

]]> By: timquinn http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644468 timquinn Sat, 02 Feb 2013 09:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644468 I think in this case we can allow that he knows how spokes work and is playing with you. Certainly one can imagine a mechanism whereby this could be accomplished. The attachment points don't have to really be where they appear to be. They could continue into the hub and be securely welded so they would not twist. This would produce some springiness maybe, but not when spinning. What I mean to say is it could be designed to play with your sense of proper design which seems wholey appropriate in a show vehicle, whereas in a staircase, for example, the visual awkwardness might actually lead to falls. I think in this case we can allow that he knows how spokes work and is playing with you. Certainly one can imagine a mechanism whereby this could be accomplished. The attachment points don’t have to really be where they appear to be. They could continue into the hub and be securely welded so they would not twist. This would produce some springiness maybe, but not when spinning. What I mean to say is it could be designed to play with your sense of proper design which seems wholey appropriate in a show vehicle, whereas in a staircase, for example, the visual awkwardness might actually lead to falls.

]]> By: Doctor Device http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644193 Doctor Device Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644193 isn't the rear shock in the wrong place? any load on the swingarm would be pulling on it instead of pushing. (that's the first engineering blunder I noticed) isn’t the rear shock in the wrong place? any load on the swingarm would be pulling on it instead of pushing. (that’s the first engineering blunder I noticed)

]]> By: Andy Kerr http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1644106 Andy Kerr Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1644106 An interesting cross between steampunk and the streamlined look of the '30s. Other than the spokes (I noticed that right away, too) I don't see anything that couldn't actually be built here. An interesting cross between steampunk and the streamlined look of the ’30s. Other than the spokes (I noticed that right away, too) I don’t see anything that couldn’t actually be built here.

]]> By: Andrew Singleton http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643876 Andrew Singleton Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643876 Yep. The 'saftey' bicycle' is also a steampunk thing. Then again so were the penny farthings. Hell cycling is a steampunk activity. Yep.

The ‘saftey’ bicycle’ is also a steampunk thing.

Then again so were the penny farthings.

Hell cycling is a steampunk activity.

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643804 penguinchris Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:31:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643804 Came across this wonderful 1931 creation in the National Archives of the Netherlands' flickr account recently: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4193508328/ Came across this wonderful 1931 creation in the National Archives of the Netherlands’ flickr account recently: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationaalarchief/4193508328/

]]> By: skeptacally http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643776 skeptacally Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:05:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643776 wait.  did he just old-ify the newest bat cycle? wait.  did he just old-ify the newest bat cycle?

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643747 dragonfrog Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643747 And clears speed bumps worse than one of those stupid sports cars lowered to within an inch or two of the ground. And clears speed bumps worse than one of those stupid sports cars lowered to within an inch or two of the ground.

]]> By: Sebastian Wiers http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643716 Sebastian Wiers Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:03:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643716 Ce n'est pas une moto.  Grab a grinder and a welder, spend a few hundred hours in the shop, then you have a motorcycle.  Pet peeve, given I have the blisters from doing the later. Ce n’est pas une moto.  Grab a grinder and a welder, spend a few hundred hours in the shop, then you have a motorcycle.  Pet peeve, given I have the blisters from doing the later.

]]> By: peregrinus http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643715 peregrinus Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:02:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643715 Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Lookin' for adventure Gonna take that exit Wait, darlin' Didn't really make it happen Gonna have to wait just a little while the next one just might be straight Then we'll explode into space etc Does look nice though.  Top score for lip-smacking beauty. Get your motor runnin’
Head out on the highway
Lookin’ for adventure
Gonna take that exit

Wait, darlin’
Didn’t really make it happen
Gonna have to wait just a little while
the next one just might be straight
Then we’ll explode into space

etc

Does look nice though.  Top score for lip-smacking beauty.

]]> By: destroy_all_humans http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643703 destroy_all_humans Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643703 i think they just invented a motorcycle that turns worse than an RV i think they just invented a motorcycle that turns worse than an RV

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643693 nixiebunny Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643693 I see a movie playing in my head of the wheels going all floppy and the bike falling over. I see a movie playing in my head of the wheels going all floppy and the bike falling over.

]]> By: dragonfrog http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643691 dragonfrog Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:37:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643691 I just looked back at the spokes and recoiled (slightly) in (mild) horror.  In the smaller front-page preview, the trailing spokes on the far side of the wheel look like leading spokes I just looked back at the spokes and recoiled (slightly) in (mild) horror.  In the smaller front-page preview, the trailing spokes on the far side of the wheel look like leading spokes

]]> By: CliffordS http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643665 CliffordS Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643665 Steam powered motorcycles were a real thing.  So if it actually existed?  Is it still "steampunk"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_steam_velocipede Steam powered motorcycles were a real thing.  So if it actually existed?  Is it still “steampunk”?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_steam_velocipede

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2013/02/01/steampunky-concept-motorcyle.html#comment-1643643 nixiebunny Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=210041#comment-1643643 That is indeed beautifully rendered. Guy needs to learn how spokes work, though. These ones won't hold tension. As an engineer, blunders of that magnitude ruin the experience for me. That is indeed beautifully rendered.

Guy needs to learn how spokes work, though. These ones won’t hold tension. As an engineer, blunders of that magnitude ruin the experience for me.

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