âSo dumb. Wonder if Nicholas has an engineering degree?â
âImagine riding that âbikeâ down a serious hill at 30-40 mphâ¦â
âOne of the many designs that are just pure fantasy. It boggles my mind that stuff like this wins awards ⦠We could make a flatpack bike, but not out of plywood.â
They say everybodyâs a critic. Certainly these commentators on treehugger.com are. The object of their collective wrath is an award-winning plywood flatback bike, plus its little brother scooter, designed by Nicolas Belly, a student in Bordeaux, France. The coolest feature is that all the of the parts, including the wheels of each transport device, are nested from a sheet of plywood and designed for quick assembly.
Bellyâs creative entry won second place in Lâargus design competition under the title, âLess is more: traveling in the era of simplicity.â The basic concept of the Lâargus contest is for college-level European design students to invent a vehicle that is useful to society.
I donât imagine that I would actually want to ride one of Bellyâs contraptions. But it would look wicked cool on the wall of my man cave.
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Oh, and here's a completely different opinion of Belly's designs.
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