I have been designing and manufacturing Impossible wheels over the last few months.
The Bedford Impossible Wheels are now in stock and ready to ride !
They have huge 14mm axles, 48 spokes with alloy rims. Hub, spokes and rim are black
The platforms are machined aluminum powder coated high-gloss black with grip-taped surfaces.
They look awesome !!!
Jeff Groves and Ryan Atkins have been testing a prototype. They have even mastered bunny hopping on them !!! Yep, bunny hopping over things on a impossible wheel !
Here is a link to some photo’s. More pictures soon.
That photo’s a keeper! They look really, really awsome! That red strip really goes well with all the black. How much will they cost? I’m considering getting one in the fairly distant future (as I have a long wishlist and already own a cheap impossible wheel with little round pegs). How much would shipping be to Australia? Do you ship to Australia?
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> I have been designing and manufacturing Impossible wheels over the last
> few months.
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> Here is a link to some photo’s. More pictures soon.
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> http://tinyurl.com/cgto
Okay, it looks cool, but unless you’re related to Johnny Hart, it’s hard to
see how this works…
… or maybe I’m just completely clueless. But for all us clueless folks,
can you post a picture of someone riding one?
> On Fri, 23 May 2003 01:19:23 -0500, Darren wrote:
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>> I have been designing and manufacturing Impossible wheels over the last
>> few months.
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>> Here is a link to some photo’s. More pictures soon.
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>> http://tinyurl.com/cgto
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> Okay, it looks cool, but unless you’re related to Johnny Hart, it’s hard to
> see how this works…
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> … or maybe I’m just completely clueless. But for all us clueless folks,
> can you post a picture of someone riding one?
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Never mind… I googled, and found some photos here:
>Yep, bunny hopping over things
>on a impossible wheel !
I wondered how one would convince the IW to go up. Hopping in sync
with tyre springiness? But now from the photo I suppose it is
squeezing the feet against the vertical part of the platforms and
possible hooking shoes under the nut, right? Even when I understand
that part of the physics, I stand in awe at the skill to do it!
Yes, they use the big chrome nuts to hold on to for bunny hopping.
These guys are awesome unicyclists and will be the pioneers of impossible wheel stunts/tricks.
There are 12 or 15 in stock right now if you’re looking for one.
here’s a picture of jeff riding his BC. This is about the 3rd time he had tried.
It is mainly just getting over being scared of jumping at high speed, to get around the gym once or twice. My favourite thing now, is jumping on at sprinting speed, and trying to juggle whilst riding the bc.
Out around the city, and down grassy hills is awesome fun. I even managed to do a pedal(peg) grab onto something about 15".
Next we’d like to see the movie with some jumps! Say some small ones, like a gentle skate board type ramp to ride up and over.
But seriously, The movie was totally awesome. Wow, the things that are possible with the right equipment and lots of daring skill and nerve.
That’s brilliant! I don’t know how many of you guys picked it up (because that part’s a bit dark) but either Ryan or Jeff was riding down stairs! Great work guys.
First off, the video is awesome… Ryan (and Jeff) continues to push the boundaries on what is possible.
I had a IW made where the pedal hangs down freely from the IW. The pedal can rotate in place. The Bedford one seems to have the pedals and crank in one unit. I was wondering if the Bedford one is a slight cheat or mine was a little harder OR it does not matter. Is there a standard definition of an IW?
I tried an Impossbile / BC wheel at Sem’s house which was similar, if not identical to your’s. The only difference i found, was that (if they had the same tires and rims) they’re equally hard to ride, sem’s was a bit less solid, and the only difference when riding was a smaller foot platform on sem’s. The balance was the same, and i was up and riding within 3 tries.
