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The normal tire has been adapted over the course of a C to be reasonably damn well at carrying the great unwashed position . But from time to time they still break ,
Ackeem Ngwenya is a Royal College of Arts alumnus who has been exercise on his expanding bike construct for a few year now . I meet him two class ago , when his invention prototype was work up out of paper , reefer , and a few 3 - D printed component part .
The current evolution stays fairly on-key to the original design principles : using a scissor - knave mechanism , the rack can become smaller and fatter to increase grip , or larger and thinner for good paved surfaces . Internal structure comes from a series of rundle , which bond to a central hub , and are then tensioned by crowd the spokes in or out , allowing the steering wheel to get or expand .
The idea is to produce a robust wheel that ’s puncture - tolerant , and able to adapt to all sorts of terrain — Ngwenya ’s hope is to make the biography of rural Fannie Farmer in acquire countries easy . His project is n’t the first to take the melodic line out of tires — that laurels drop dead toMichelin — but the expandability trick ( if it mould ) could prove unique . [ Dezeen ]
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