NASA funds a prototype of Hyper bike for its impressive design
This horse saddle appears more like an exercise machine than means of transport. I don't know how this weird design for this horse saddle came into the mind of Curtis DeForest.
Well whatever the design looks like it involves some very sophisticated mechanism that makes it far better than conventional design of bicycles. The innovative design has an advantage over other designs as those conventional bicycles had a drawback that the rider was easily exposed to the accidents. They were inefficient to use the full strength due to no use of upper torso lyind as dead weight.
NASA has found the design of their interest and has decided to fund a prototype of this design. It looks for the possibilities of using the vehicle in low gravity environments due to its contraption property the system exhibits great stability and balance of weight relative to spinning forces.
The wheels are 64 inches apart at the road and cant inwards to only 26 inches apart at the top of their 8-foot diameter. The prototype weighs in at about 200 pounds that can be reduced by the use of lighter materials like carbon fiber etc. The vehicle can race up at an incredible speed of 50 mph and also employs an innovative mechanism to accumulate energy for some extra boost when required.
I don't know what to expect from it Hype or Hope?
Via: gizmodo
