Riding Giant Mechanical Tricycles, 1896
TIL in 1896 a rubber tire company built an eleven-foot tall, 1,500 pound tricycle, powered by eight men to advertise its products.
https://vintagenewsdaily.com/riding-giant-mechanical-tricycles-1896/
https://vintagenewsdaily.com/riding-giant-mechanical-tricycles-1896/
Riding Giant Mechanical Tricycles, 1896
22 Comments
village604@adultswim.fan · 48 pts · 11d
Fun fact: due to the Vulkanization process, the rubber in tires is a single massive molecule.
turboshadowcool@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 11d
Wow, that's an exceedingly fun fact!
pahlimur@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 10d
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.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 10d
I would like to subscribe to more fun facts.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 10d
Breathing and blinking are controlled by the autonomic nervous system, but now you're doing both manually.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 10d
Joke's on you. That trick stopped working on me years ago. I learned how to manually automate my normally automatic bodilly fumctions.
pimento64@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 10d
Does it help with the game too?
village604@adultswim.fan · 4 pts · 10d
You can always see the tip of your nose; your brain just ignores it.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 10d
Except in the dark.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 10d
Now that's cool.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 11d
The very definition of the word Monstrosity.
antidote101@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 11d
It's an 8 man menstrosity.
...it's a real menstrual cycle.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 11d
Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 6 pts · 11d
You're just upset that you didn't think of it first.
safesyrup@feddit.org · 4 pts · 11d
Skookum, one could say
user1234@fedinsfw.app · 13 pts · 10d
Michelin just wrote a guidebook to get people to travel more and use more tires. Probably a better strategy in the long run.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Hindsight is 20/20. For all they knew everyone would be riding around in huge tricycles... I see you point.
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 11d
Much like EVs, fat-tired HPVs have been around for way longer than most people would've expected.
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 11d
Simpler times
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 10d
Something like this: [Lot #1075
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 10d
With a hand brake and all!
Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 9d
Just noticed it has a Chevy bowtie on it too.
antidote101@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 11d