hubless

If I have to see another impossible, magical, hubless rim-mounted bearing system, I will hunt down the designer and slap them with a white glove to challenge them to a dual.

Soopa Scoota by Liron Bobrov » Yanko Design 2010

I'd go for ginsu-knife bladed spokes over hubless wheels

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

Perhaps now you can grind upside down on the rims of the new hubless BMX.

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

Scoff if you will, but this horrid hubless future is already becoming reality:

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

A trio of Penn State kids did a hubless trike and actually did all three wheels.

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

The latest fictional hubless creation I've come across is this BMX, which one design magazine called "rock-solid:"

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

Apparently, designers are growing bored with hubless bikes and vulvular bike racks that will never exist and have now moved on to designing make-believe hotels for us to stay in when we take pretend vacations from our futuristic lives.

Uncultured: The War of the Wardrobes BikeSnobNYC 2010

A trio of Penn State kids did a hubless trike and actually did all three wheels.

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

The engineering flaw in these hubless wheels is that they must be completely, perfectly circular to function.

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010

They should do a reality TV show with hubless bike builders in a huge house with a hot tub, add Grant Petersen and Richard Sachs to spice it up, also: Prolly, Gerhard Vroomen, the OSO bike guy and Frilly.

Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs? BikeSnobNYC 2010