View Full Version : check out this pointless invention


dillsrotary
08-16-2006, 08:50 PM
the human mind has limitless potential, as proven below

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/the-treadmill-bike-video-demonstration-194428.php :Freak_ani

of course if that video is down there's always the official website
http://www.bikeforest.com/tread/index.php :mdrmed:

Photic
08-17-2006, 09:16 AM
I like how you have to run to go walking speed.

Those spinners. "fo shizzle" I think she said. Spot on. :rolleyes:

youpey
08-17-2006, 09:33 AM
the first thing i thought of was why not just walk if you want to exersize

theCATALYST
08-17-2006, 09:50 AM
^ My thoughts exactly ^

dmc27
08-17-2006, 10:15 AM
I like the way they cut away from the video just before the dumbass getting on the bus catches the handlebars/wheel on the outside of the door to the bus and probably falls backwards.

Speaking of which - why the hell would you take that thing out if you were just going to the effin bus stop??

saturn
08-17-2006, 10:20 AM
Haha, this is great. You have to haul around this giant contraption which requires more energy than just walking yet seemingly offers only walking speeds.

N rider89
08-17-2006, 06:30 PM
oh man this thing costs:"$2500.00 Canadian, eh!"

N rider89
08-17-2006, 06:31 PM
video of them and sweet jumps (http://www.bikeforest.com/tread/treadmill_sweet_jumps.php)

otherside
08-17-2006, 06:37 PM
Its gotta be a joke.

moRotorMotor
08-17-2006, 06:38 PM
video of them and sweet jumps (http://www.bikeforest.com/tread/treadmill_sweet_jumps.php)
That has got to be one of the most intense jumps I have ever witnessed! :rock: :ylsuper:

murix
08-17-2006, 07:00 PM
Is this for real? Did someone really just spend all that time thinking this up?

BlueEyes
08-17-2006, 07:14 PM
You see all the other bikes on the website?

The best being the Couchbike
http://www.bikeforest.com/couchrental.jpg

Rhawb
08-17-2006, 10:08 PM
I don't know why, but every time they said "Treadmill bike," I thought "Manbearpig." I'm totally serial.

Also, is it such an enigma that these are joke products? Hell, the girl doing the voiceover was laughing!

WhiteDealershipRice
08-17-2006, 10:51 PM
I don't know, kind of sounded like a cheap college project to me (maybe even a high school senior year project)

Meowloud
08-18-2006, 05:34 AM
My favorite: "Take it off some sweet jumps!" -Uh, OK. :cwm27:
Reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite! http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/napoleon

Razpewton
08-18-2006, 05:49 AM
Geez Jen....where ya been? :kiss:

mysql101
08-18-2006, 06:53 AM
they sell it for $2400 CAD.

Good way to get traffic to your site though.

murix
08-18-2006, 10:25 AM
No ssl when you try to order. I went through the process to see how far it would let me go. It made it all the way to the end. I did not use real information of course. Funny site!