{"id":13680,"date":"2016-06-24T09:13:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:17:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T16:17:45","slug":"check-out-this-walking-bike-tgif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/06\/24\/check-out-this-walking-bike-tgif\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out This WALKING BIKE!! TGIF!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is an amazing invention&#8230; a Walking Bike!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>via <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2016\/06\/23\/The-Strandbeest-Bike\/\">Neatorama<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Walking-Bike-640-640x428.jpg\" alt=\"Walking-Bike-640\" \/>\n<p><strong>It was inspired\u00a0by\u00a0Theo Jansen&#8217;s amazing\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbeest.com\/\">Strandbeest<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>kinetic<em>\u00a0<\/em>machines which walk with the wind!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/XDn6Cj4p-Z8<\/p>\n<p><strong>The creators of the <a href=\"http:\/\/carv.co\/walking-bike-unveiled\/\">Walking Bike<\/a>, California-based J.P. Blaine Elliot, and Roy Wright worked together to attach legs to an ordinary bicycle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>They started by making this\u00a03d prototype&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"413\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13684\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/3d-prototype-of-the-walking-bike.jpg\" alt=\"3d-prototype-of-the-walking-bike\" \/>\n<blockquote><p>J.P. had an\u00a0idea to adapt Theo Jansen\u2019s Strandbeest leg system to a bicycle. \u00a0He made a quick model and 3d print of the idea in Sketchup and showed it around to some friends. \u00a0Roy Wright came on board as the chief fabricator. \u00a0Soon after, Blaine Elliott joined the team and\u00a0added his special attention to technical details.<\/p>\n<p>We spent about 3 hours a night, on Monday through Wednesday each week, slowly progressing through layout, material buying, mockups, jigs, cutting, welding, and bolting. \u00a0In the end we had over 400 custom made parts, and couldn\u2019t believe the thing actually worked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>All in all, it took them six\u00a0months and 1000 hours to complete! [Check out their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iblaine.com\/building-a-walking-bike-strandbeest-bike\/\">entire build progress here<\/a>.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s what it looks like from behind:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Walking-bike-from-behind-406x640.jpg\" alt=\"Walking-bike-from-behind\" \/>\n<p><strong>Unlike the <em>Strandbeest<\/em> machines, the Walking Bike doesn&#8217;t use wind to move. It requires a\u00a0bicyclist who must pedal&#8230; slowly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Like so:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='flex-video widescreen'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Riding the Strandbeest Bike\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YKAxKrxFys8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Isn&#8217;t it amazing!? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By the way, if you&#8217;re in the San Francisco area and like this sort of thing, be sure to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploratorium.edu\/strandbeest\/visit?gclid=CjwKEAjwka67BRCk6a7_h_7Pui8SJABcMkWRuSb_JQuQBh53GGAOhjnTWl8eaUjGVJ-3K8N7jP2uiBoCckzw_wcB\">check out the <em>Strandebeest<\/em> exhibit<\/a> at the Exploratorium!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TGIF!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an amazing invention&#8230; a Walking Bike!! via Neatorama It was inspired\u00a0by\u00a0Theo Jansen&#8217;s amazing\u00a0Strandbeest\u00a0kinetic\u00a0machines which walk with the wind! https:\/\/youtu.be\/XDn6Cj4p-Z8 The creators of the Walking Bike, California-based J.P. Blaine Elliot, and Roy Wright worked together to attach legs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13695,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions\/13695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}