Interesting frame.

[just jim]

You could get a some of those modelling balloons and blow them up inside the lattice tubes to add colour and keep out the dirt.

Now that's thinking ahead!

 

[Night Train]

It looks like fishnet stockings.

 

[Carwash]

As my mother is fond of saying, 'It looks nice, but I bet it's a pain to dust!'

 

[Mr Pig]

same as bird's bones..

Thank you for the illustration/explanation :0)

I agree that it looks hideous though..oh and Standard-Issue, I have your Pantone mug at work ;0)

 

[Shaun]

Don't take it out in the rain - there's nowt to stop the road crud flying off the front wheel, up through the perforated frame, and ending up on the underside of your chin.

Bet it rides nice though ...

 

[Kirstie]

I bet if you held it at a certain angle on a very windy day it would whistle constantly, which would keep everyone on here really calm, by all accounts...

 

[Fnaar]

Don't take it out in the rain - there's nowt to stop the road crud flying off the front wheel, up through the perforated frame, and ending up on the underside of your chin.

Bet it rides nice though ...

You could make mudguards out of string

 

[Carwash]

You could make mudguards out of string

Or aerogel.

 

[red_tom]

I'd be very tempted to set about it with some tissue paper and cellulose dope.

 

[Graham O]

, but I don't understand why it would be stronger than solid tube?

Couldn't find the part of their site with that information, but I doubt it. Assuming they mean that it is as strong as a solid tube of equal outside diameter, then also need to define "strong". In a sideways impact, it is almost certainly much weaker, although it may be elastic to small impacts.

The bird's bones analogy is not correct. Bird's bones are hollow to provide strength with lightness, but it does not make them stronger than solid tube.

Consider a square section bar with a load in the middle. The top bends down, so the top surface is in compression. The bottom surface also bends down, but is being stretched, so is in tension. Somewhere inside the bar, there is metal which is neither in compression or tension, i.e. it is doing nothing except adding weight. Get rid of this useless material and you have a box girder bridge, a bird's wing or a bike tube. Strength without weight.

 

[domtyler]

Wonder if you could a similar job on the inner tubes?

 

[walker]

the air would get caught between the bars causing unwanted drag. good idea, but crap

 

[Keith Oates]

It's certainly not one that will be on any shopping list I make in the future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!