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Video: Madcap genius Colin Furze builds tall bike for social distancing
You can trust our favourite YouTube inventor, Colin Furze to think outside the box, even in these times of social distancing.
While we at road.cc, and some rather more clever people at universities in Belgium and the Netherlands have been grappling with how much space you should give between yourself and the rider in front, the madcap genius has found another solution - by going upwards.
We love it.
You can find other bike-related shenanigans from Furze that we have featured on road.cc, including his hover bike and that time he fired 1,000 rockets from a bicycle, here.
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Local 'nimbyism' dismissed as consensus is new scheme will 'increase footfall'...
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If they're formally recognising phone addiction, and have noted that our eating habits (driven by stuff people want to sell us) are obeseogenic ......
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I believe the Road Traffic Act 1988 disagrees with you.
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Yes. Just like there's no push rod brakes or U brakes any more. Get with the program granddad.
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Brilliant, except for the fact that C19 is carried by water droplets, which means that his clouds of vapour and sweat will be distributed far wider....
Love his work. Super
That just looks dangerous to me. He's liable to get injured kneeing himself in the nose at any moment.
His rotating belt of knives is useful in the queue at the supermarket.
i dont get how its stable though, when he climbs up onto it, how come it doesnt fall over? is there a stabiliser i havent seen?
There is a strange stability to any bicycle in motion that is really quite difficult to fully explain. Some of it comes from the gyrscopic stability of the rotating wheels, but that seemingly cannot account for it all. Tall bikes are a thing and require no stabilisers.
It's easier to keep a long broomstick upright on your open palm than a short stick. Try it.