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Old 06-24-2014, 01:03 PM   #1635
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Originally Posted by flylock shox View Post
That's wild. I was just contemplating such a mechanism about a week ago, wondering how to engineer a bike that used something closer to a stair-master-type motion rather than the usual full rotation associated with pedaling. It's so weird to see (only a few days later) that someone's already done that. It's pretty much exactly what I'd been thinking about, and actually seems to work pretty well.

Somehow though, I have a feeling that I haven't missed out on millions of bucks with this one.

Would still love to try it.
Apparently millions of bucks was spent developing and marketing this in the 70s already (sites report trade shows with models in 70s lycra pedalling to disco beats) but it failed to catch on.
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