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Not content with looking like a dumbass on a regular tandem bike, Taiwanese inventor Chen Yugang decided to kick it up a notch and develop a bike that is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. Apparently, his new design can be ridden face to face, conventionally or (and here is the real kicker) back to back for couples looking to add a little rush to their romantic life. Seriously though guys, there isn't a damn thing that is romantic about the emergency room okay? Still, Yugang plans on getting it mass produced. Yeah, good luck with that dude—I just hope you have a great lawyer. [Daily Times via Geekologie via DVICE]
Face to Face Tandem Bike Makes First Dates Last Dates
Not content with looking like a dumbass on a regular tandem bike, Taiwanese inventor Chen Yugang decided to kick it up a notch and develop a bike that is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. Apparently, his new design can be ridden face to face, conventionally or (and here is the real kicker) back to back for couples looking to add a little rush to their romantic life. Seriously though guys, there isn't a damn thing that is romantic about the emergency room okay? Still, Yugang plans on getting it mass produced. Yeah, good luck with that dude—I just hope you have a great lawyer. [Daily Times via Geekologie via DVICE]
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Walking Bike, Perfect Use For Old Keds, Jordans
We're not going to oversell this one. It's a bike. And it's had the wheels replaced by spokes tipped with shoes. In other words, it's quite possible the greatest invention ever.
Ad Dugdale celebrates that there's finally a bike to give the Bitchcruiser a proper ass-kicking. We celebrate the sweet, awkward video of someone riding the thing after the jump.
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Ride the Bitchcruiser Bike, But Wear Protection (NSFW)
Once in a while we come across an invention that's so ludicrously chauvinist, even our testosterone-fueled rants sputter to speechlessness. Just check out the NSFW photos (and plenty of 'em) after the jump. More »
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CyCool Uses Your Own Cycling Energy To Cool You
Stationary biking may be fun and healthy, but unless you're sitting right under an air conditioning vent, you're gonna get hot. Real hot. So why not use the energy generated by all that furious pedaling to power a fan that cools you off at the same time? Sounds brilliant to us as long as you can shut off the fan occasionally so you're not always getting the cooling effect. There's nothing worse than cycling in the wind when it's cold. [Yanko Design]
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Jumping Stilts Race Bicycle - Guess Who Wins
Vanessa of DVice has a video up of her learning how to use these crazy jumping stilts with the people who are selling them. The stilts are definitely cool and let you get a little bit more jump than man was intended to, but things get a little tricky when you fast forward to about halfway through the video when one of the guys decides to get cocky and race a guy on a bike. Things go well at first (the stilts guy takes a head start), but he eats it hard when one of his goatman-like stilts hits a leaf. He's OK, but it shows that these jumping stilts have a little ways to go. [DVice]
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Crossbreed Bike Wheels Fold Automagically
A UK Designer has come up with a full-sized wheel that can be completely folded. Duncan Fitzsimmons' Crossbreed wheel doesn't have the poor-performance delivered by the tiny wheels on folding bikes and despite sounding pretty dangerous it actually works, as you can see in the video.
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Google Contest Winner Delivers Clean Water via Bicycles
You may not have heard of Google's Innovate or Die competition, but it was a $5000 contest for coming up with a method to provide rural communities with water—an endeavor that doesn't sound glorious, but is quite important to thirsty people. Aquaduct, the winning team, created a bicycle that can both help transport water quickly and easily, but clean that water at the same time! Congrats to Aquaduct, whose team of 5 easily averted a tense situation by being able to divide up the prize with simple math. [Google - Thanks Diem!]
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Soon you'll be able to set up a computer network on your bicycle that's just downright useful. The Cerevellum's main unit mounts front and center on your handlebars, and then you plug in USB modules that give you GPS capability, heart rate readings, and even the amount of energy you're expending pedaling that bike. Heck, it even gives you eyes in the back of your head.
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Cerevellum Bike Computer Does It All, Including Video From Behind
Soon you'll be able to set up a computer network on your bicycle that's just downright useful. The Cerevellum's main unit mounts front and center on your handlebars, and then you plug in USB modules that give you GPS capability, heart rate readings, and even the amount of energy you're expending pedaling that bike. Heck, it even gives you eyes in the back of your head.
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