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Weird Wooden Bike Has Back Legs That Walk

Weird Wooden Bike Has Back Legs That Walk

This article in Popular Mechanics is about Ron Schroer's Boneshaker Bigwheel superficially resembles the kind of old-timey bicycle called penny-farthing, but don't be fooled: the all-wood machine actually crawls on a set of legs on the back. He was inspired by Theo Jansen...

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penny-farthing bicycle, design, mechanical engineering, bicycles, Boneshaker Bigwheel
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Open (Access) Journal-Article
Date Added to MERLOT:
February 15, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:
February 15, 2016
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Sally Robertson
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High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division, College Upper Division, Graduate School
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English
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