I went shopping for a recumbent bike the other day, and the sales clerk told me to come back when my beard was bushy enough. Just kidding (about buying a recumbent – my beard is actually quite lush), although these combination bike/couches are usually associated with facial hair and fleece-jackets. The OOPHAGA, from designer Milos Todorovic, smashes this otherwise sound opinion with its high-tech good looks and built-in weaponry.
The OOPHAGA, named after those brightly colored dart-frogs you always see on wildlife magazines, looks more like something from Akira or Tron than from Portland. And like Tron’s light-cycles, it exists only inside a computer. Were it ever made, though, it would be constructed from carbon fiber, and the laid-back position and reverse-trike layout, with two-wheels at the back, would keep it both comfy and stable.
Todorovic’s specs include customizable everything, which is of course easy to do when you’re tweaking pixels in a CAD app. The part I really love, though, is the Mad Max-like chain-wheel up front. Look at it, stuck out there and ready to chomp on the tires of any cars that dare to get in its way. Maybe Todorovic could revisit the design and add some pop-out, wheel-mounted dagger-blades. Forget about the carbon fiber. I want weapons.
OOPHAGA trike [Bicycle Design]
See Also:
- 3X3 Recumbent Trike for Scary Bearded Children
- Bike Hack: Recumbent Trailer Made From Walking Frames
- Modded Recumbent Bikes Rip Through NASA Ames
- World's Fastest Cyclist Hits 82.3 MPH
- If Computers Were Bikes, What Bikes Would They Be?
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