TIL in 1896 a rubber tire company built an eleven-foot tall, 1,500 pound tricycle, powered by eight men to advertise its products.
Riding Giant Mechanical Tricycles, 1896
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Fun fact: due to the Vulkanization process, the rubber in tires is a single massive molecule.
Wow, that's an exceedingly fun fact!
Thats wrong. The entire thing doesn't cross link. Vulcanization increases the polymer chain lengths until it crosses into being more of a solid. Polymers are like big balls of spaghetti and longer noodles make them more solid.
I would like to subscribe to more fun facts.
Breathing and blinking are controlled by the autonomic nervous system, but now you're doing both manually.
Joke's on you. That trick stopped working on me years ago. I learned how to manually automate my normally automatic bodilly fumctions.
Does it help with the game too?
You can always see the tip of your nose; your brain just ignores it.
Except in the dark.
Now that's cool.
The very definition of the word Monstrosity.
It's an 8 man menstrosity.
...it's a real menstrual cycle.
You're just upset that you didn't think of it first.
Skookum, one could say
Michelin just wrote a guidebook to get people to travel more and use more tires. Probably a better strategy in the long run.
Hindsight is 20/20. For all they knew everyone would be riding around in huge tricycles... I see you point.
Much like EVs, fat-tired HPVs have been around for way longer than most people would've expected.
Simpler times
Something like this: [Lot #1075
With a hand brake and all!
Just noticed it has a Chevy bowtie on it too.