Comments on: Didi Senft keeps it Real

Didi Senft keeps it Real

rageagainsttherobots — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:44:25 -0800

Bike fanatic Didi Senft, who's been building crazy cycles for years, shows off his latest "angular" bikes.

By: rageagainsttherobots

rageagainsttherobots — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:45:30 -0800

Didi Senft would be one crazy Grandpa. Could you imagine Christmas as a kid with this guy as your Grandpa?

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:54:38 -0800

Those are some crazy bikes. There's some sort of crazy curve the can be used to define a surface where triangular wheels maintain a constant height above the ground but I forget what it's called - a carotid? My mind is failing as usual.

By: R343L

R343L — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:15:21 -0800

That man is my hero. If only I could do something so fun and beautiful with my life!

By: i_am_joe's_spleen

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:22:00 -0800

GuyZero: Reuleaux Triangle.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:25:25 -0800

No, I was thinking of catenary curves. Not sure if it's the same curve for arbitrary polygon wheels though.

By: rocketman

rocketman — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:32:12 -0800

Hey, I just invented a car that TOTALLY DOESN'T FUCKING WORK, can I get on the news too?

By: tim_in_oz

tim_in_oz — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:43:44 -0800

Could you imagine Christmas as a kid with this guy as your Grandpa? I'm reliably told that Didi Senf - at least while he is being the devil - has weapons-grade body odour. So yes, I can imagine Christmas with him. It would have confirmed my long-standing childhood observation that all old people smell funny.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:45:17 -0800

~~Holy~~Bike Fool.

By: Icky

Icky — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:49:18 -0800

I can confirm the B.O. rumor as fact. We managed to park our car in a slightly hidden drainage ditch at the 2002 Giro d'Italia and Didi summoned various passers-by to push us out. This was in the last week of the tour and both he and his van were rather ripe.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:12:26 -0800

He's the original. Antler man, the Pope, all those other ATOC shcmucks are just a pale imitation. The Devil!

By: fenriq

fenriq — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:23:31 -0800

Count me in the minority, I find the bike fan kooks to be annoying as hell. In fact, I rather enjoy this photo of a fan getting his comeuppance by Michael Rogers quite alot. The bikes in the link are interesting but worthless as bicycles.

By: alexei

alexei — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:30:36 -0800

They'll never sell. Everyone knows carbon fiber is where it's at.

By: StickyCarpet

StickyCarpet — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:02:58 -0800

Who would have thought that the boundary between a vehicle that transports you, and a pile of junk that you drag around, could be such a permeable one?

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:52:00 -0800

That triangular-wheeled bike was obviously invented by a man who hates his own balls.

By: Skeptic

Skeptic — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:00:20 -0800

I can confirm the B.O. rumor as fact. posted by Icky So very Eponysterical

By: mannequito

mannequito — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 05:47:35 -0800

That boy's got the devil in 'im

By: Wild_Eep

Wild_Eep — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 14:44:55 -0800

SLYT to catenary bike in motion.

By: DU

DU — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:58:19 -0800

A reuleaux triangle is indeed a triangle and it does have a constant width the same way a circle does, but you can't build a wheel out of it because it doesn't have a constant center to attach an axle to. That catenary bike is pretty cool, but to be fair to joe's spleen, Guy Zero said "triangle" and the catenary bike has square wheels.

By: GuyZero

GuyZero — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:06:32 -0800

In my defense, where am I and why am I naked?