A bicycle with SQUARE WHEELS??!!!

[ScoobMaster]

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A square wheel can roll smoothly if it travels over a roadway of the right geometric shape.
Stan Wagon, a mathematician at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., has a bicycle with square wheels. It's a weird contraption, but he can ride it perfectly smoothly. His secret is the shape of the road over which the wheels roll.

 

[skace]

Is the road made out of triangle formations?

 

[isekii]

what happens if you want to make a turn lol

 

[Excelsior]

I care about this <-> much.

 

[VictorLazlo]

Thats it!! Time to repave the US so we can take advantage of this revolutionary technology!

 

[jfall]

Cool, but useless

 

[rh71]

Those divets need to be spaced equally too.

There can't be much work for mathematicians these days, eh &not;

 

[Yossarian]

I wanna see a Segway with square wheels.

 

[geno]

A) People have too much time on their hands, did Killbat invent this or something?
B)It's still the same concept as what we use now, round surface comes in contact with a flat one = smooth ride. There's really nothing amazing about this, it can me done with many different shapes, it all depends on how kooky you want the surface of the "road" to be.

 

[TMPadmin]

"Why reinvent the wheel!?"

Some people have too much time on their hands.

 

[Bootprint]

He invented the round road.

 

[Homerboy]

thats a tricycle... he failed.

 

[Ness]

it may move smoothly but I would be willing to bet that the effort required to make it move is greater than that of a bicycle with round wheels.

 

[Mani]

Did it really take a mathematician to figure this out?

 

[ThisIsMatt]

This is nothing remotely new. There have been railways with square wheels and obviously custom track...making it easier to get up hills...

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: ness1469
it may move smoothly but I would be willing to bet that the effort required to make it move is greater than that of a bicycle with round wheels.

Sherlock, is that you?

 

[opticalmace]

Originally posted by: jfall
Cool, but useless

 

[VictorLazlo]

<-- Remembers South Park episode where all the Canadian cars had square wheels.

 

[TitanDiddly]

Originally posted by: Mani
Did it really take a mathematician to figure this out?

:beer:

 

[NickE]

Originally posted by: TMPadmin
"Why reinvent the wheel!?"

Some people have too much time on their hands.

Because there is a patent on the round one that stops you using it without paying licence fees?

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