Can Split Wheel Bike Ride on the Highway?

Hard to see anyone improving on this design. You guys made history.

I love that this bike can cure world hunger and can cause massive diarrhea at the same time. Keep up the good work.

To get rid of the bucking you will have to go with a hardtail design and solid front suspension. Your design with suspension allows for the half-wheel's to become a pivot point depending on the compression/decompression of your front suspension. When the front suspension is compressed it causes the front half-wheel to become the pivot point and in decompression causing the rear half-wheel to be the pivot. Due to the wheels being cut in half this will allow for the pivot points to move up and down as the non pivot wheel comes into contact with the pavement. I am sure someone else has commented on this as well or your engineers described this better. hope this helps if you guys try to improve on your concept.

This is just awesome, guys. I love your experiments. If you are planning to do more work on this, there are a few things to consider that may fix the "up and down" bobbling issue that u may have. 1. Every circular object in rotation needs to distribute its center weight equally across its rotational plane (eg, flywheel). However, due to the wheels being cut, it instead can only do so by the remaining parts. Since its rotation is horizontal, it'll wobble horizontally. However, if you attach a counterweight disc that's small enough but also heavy enough to bear the rotational weight between the gab, it should fix this issue.

Many have commented about fixed front suspension but to me it seems the issue here is balance. You have 2 incredibly unbalanced weights (wheels) on different axes of the same plane. Think about holding a baseball bat horizontal, one hand at the base, and one hand at the top of the grip area. Now, move your hands alternately up and down. The unsupported end of the bat will behave like the front end of this bike. Making the front suspension rigid would likely cause front wheel hop, because the unbalanced centrifugal force has to go somewhere. Adding counterbalances to each wheel that obviously don't contact the pavement, would smooth out a lot of vibration.

That's exactly what I thought would happen. You have no counterbalance when you only have half a wheel and with the tire only being held on with quarter-inch pop rivets, there's no way you could exceed a certain speed. But I have to give it to you man you got some huge cojones to even try that.

The easiest fix for this dangling issue is to mount 2 half wheels on the same arm and then attach middle of that arm to the end of bike's swing arm (extended) with a pivot joint. Keep the chains tight, use the same size sprockets. Thats it.

The tire lifting you up in the air is where the original tire would be, not the extra tire. It's because of the angle where that tire attaches. Realistically, you should move both sets of tires back onto the metal bar you created for this, or try making the closer tire slightly smaller

For this to be smooth you would have to remove any moving part of the suspension. The angle of the swing arm will misalign the tires when the suspension moves. Also the imbalance of the tire will have more leverage in the rear vs front so to counter act you would need the front and rear half tires to be balanced differently. If you want the tires to stay on, leave the steel cable around the bead in tact and use it to secure the tire to the wheel, could just weld it to the wheel :)

Absolute beautiful save at the end. I'm wondering about putting 2 complete enduro tires on the back and testing the off road capabilities.

You guys are such dorks, I love it! Great job dealing with the tire coming apart and not going SPLAT in the process!

I hope you guys keep working on this and make it a fully capable riding machine. great video!

Here to make my monthly comment about how great the editing and production is. Keep up the great work behind the scenes bois!! We notice and appreciate it!

Moment of respect for keeping that thing under control when the tyre came off and the other one locked up. Don’t think I could’ve done that.

Literally just discovered you guys yesterday and Im hooked... Reminds me so much of watching OCC and other motorcycle shows when I was younger... NOT comparing you to them however your content leaves me feeling nostalgic... SUBSCRIBED!!!

Man this is awesome. Everyone has their own thoughts on this, so mine is put a heavy coiled spring on the front connection of your swing arm, one that will have tension in both directions, this should allow both rear wheels to have independent suspension

Dude, Shawn is insane. I mean he literally almost died to make me laugh so hard I shot coffee out my nose. So that is just insane. Keep it up guys, you'll win the Internet at some point.

Okay, what we found out is that bike is so awesome, you can ride it until the wheels fall off.

Really love your guy’s content! I’ve been riding 20 years, but took the last six off. Just picked up a softail to get back on two wheels. Thank you!!

Every time one tire exchanges load to the next tire, you are putting load at the very end of each tire. There is flex because nothing is supporting the open end of each tire. 1 of 2 things need to happen for smooth ride. Either reinforce the open end of each tire to eliminate flex, or extend the length of each tire so the ends are not taking load at the same time. Hope this was helpful, love your channel!