Inventor Who Came Up With Square Bicycle Wheels Is Back, This Time With Reuleaux Triangle Cycle Wheels

Recently, an inventor took the internet by storm when he came up with the idea to whip up square wheels for his bicycle adventures. Now once again,?the engineer Sergii Gordieiev has set out to make a cycle with triangle wheels for his creative and bizarre inventions YouTube channel, "The Q."

Inventor Makes Triangle-Wheeled Cycle Following Square-Wheeled Viral Bicycle

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Sergii is an intellectual who enjoys making bizarre yet functional inventions, mostly concerning?bicycles. In the past, he tinkered with a bicycle that could ride on ice. He has also worked on making the world’s smallest bicycle. In short, the man likes building his bicycles.

Well, his new idea of adding triangle wheels to his bicycle has once again impressed an army of followers, along with people who knew nothing of him on the internet. Just like the absurd project of making square wheels, triangle-shaped wheels are too unusual and unconventional, which has made his name popular on social media once again.

On Twitter, user Massimo posted a clip from Sergii’s YouTube video and explained, "A bike with wheels shaped like a Reuleaux triangle, the simplest and best-known curve of constant width other than the circle."

How Does It Work?

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If you are wondering how the engineer could make a functional cycle out of triangle wheels, then you must know that Sergii used his knowledge of engineering and decided to use Reuleaux triangles as his main ammo. For those wondering what reuleaux triangles are, they are simply a "curved triangle with constant width, the simplest and best known curve of constant width other than the circle."

This means these triangles actually have a better chance of working on the road than the square wheels he had made before. The three-wheeled bicycle is ridden like any other bike by pedalling and keeping the wheels in balance. At first glance, the triangle wheels seem like they would have no chance of moving on the ride safely.

Unlike the square-wheeled bicycles, the wheels actually rotate, while in the square wheels, it was much of the channel around the tyre that was rotating.? But by slightly curving each side of the triangular wheels and building a pair of articulated yet limited arms that allow the centre of each wheel to move up and down, the bike can be ridden with almost any up-and-down motion felt by the rider altogether.

The rider seems to have experienced a subtle increase in ride speed every time the triangular wheels move from the apexes to the flat sides, but otherwise, it feels like a very drivable model and would probably be quite adept at navigating rough terrain.

Check out the video below:

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