Phantom Bike

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An unusual bike design, “Forkless – Cruiser” by Olli Erkkila.He built it for his graduation project at the Institute of Design in Lahti, Finland.

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24 Responses to “Phantom Bike”

on Sep 21, 2009 at 5:18 pm 1 robb

riding a bike has never been more awesome.
on Sep 21, 2009 at 8:02 pm 2 mike

left turns only and you have to be very light weight.
on Sep 21, 2009 at 8:06 pm 3 mike

I guess you can turn right… the front fork swings out to the left side of the bike to allow the wheel clearance.
on Sep 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm 4 Wild Rice

Very clever and eye catching design…..I wonder how practical it is
on Sep 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm 5 Jo

It’s a pain pedaling those 1-speeders. Also, where are the brakes?
on Sep 21, 2009 at 11:52 pm 6 Delaroyas

Probably is a Fixed-gear bicycle meaning you slow down by “pedaling backwards”. Would also permit to go backwards, a must on a phantom bike!
on Sep 22, 2009 at 2:03 am 7 Chris Ronk

I wish I had gone o design school.

Very cool bike.
on Sep 22, 2009 at 2:13 am 8 daniel

you people are retarded, first of all it can turn right, the same way it turns left, just because the lever is on the left doesn’t mean it can only turn left, that much is obvious just by glancing at it, and secondly, for the people who made a comment about it being a ‘one speed’ or ‘where are the breaks’ first of all both those things have nothing to do with the front wheel design which is what the purpose was. And its a classic beach cruiser design by inspiration (obviously) so it should be a one speed, and you brake by peddling backwards
on Sep 22, 2009 at 2:42 am 9 Seanfalloy

@Jo
You make it sound like you know what your talking about when it comes to bikes but then you finish off with “where are the brakes?”. If you really knew what you were talking about you would know that most single speed hubs (as long as they are not cassette type single speed) especially with the big hub have a pedal brake. When the cranks are rotated backward shoes in the rear hub are engaged causing the bike to brake. These were quite common 15 or more years ago. If you truly know that it is a pain in the ass to pedal a single speed you should have known this already

by the way that is a neat white bike useless but neat
on Sep 22, 2009 at 4:28 am 10 kendra

Actually it looks like it turns left and right just fine!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qiR7E3dpjk

Such a gorgeous design. I’d like to see something like this actually go into production.
on Sep 22, 2009 at 10:28 am 11 Adriana

Thanks for sharing the video Kendra.
on Sep 23, 2009 at 12:27 pm 12 Chris

WYKOP KURWA!!!!!
on Sep 25, 2009 at 10:10 am 13 Doug

They’re called coaster brakes.
From the vid it appears you could use any kind of drive system from the single speed up to whatever the max is today.
I think the only real issue with the design is just that long front piece – it’s going to flex and bend as you hit bumps and I think it might be a place for the system to fail.
Very cool looking design.
on Sep 27, 2009 at 1:50 am 14 Adelaide DJ

i like how it also happens to be an albino twitter(at)locspoc
on Sep 28, 2009 at 10:01 pm 15 pligg.com

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on Sep 29, 2009 at 10:55 pm 16 Mark

Hi!

Really nice bike I must say!

Regards, Mark
on Oct 01, 2009 at 2:38 am 17 www.glossygames.com

How is this happening??? How???
on Oct 03, 2009 at 12:08 pm 18 yazan ali

Nice
on Oct 04, 2009 at 5:25 am 19 graphic designer

Nicely done. Beautiful less is more design
on Nov 04, 2009 at 7:05 am 20 waseem

hi,
its really beautiful and an eye catching design creation.

wasi
on Dec 01, 2009 at 9:51 am 21 Design Ideas

I love the color of this bike
on Dec 01, 2009 at 8:42 pm 22 Web Design Maidstone

Very cleaver, great design… not sure how safe i would feel though!
on Dec 02, 2009 at 5:39 pm 23 eric the designer

While I know little about how bikes work, lol, I love this design. But personally, I think it would look a little cleaner and better, if it had the bar lever on the left AND right of the front wheel–creating a symmetrical balance. Plus, it’d prolly add support.

But yeah, Bad ass.
on Dec 08, 2009 at 4:25 pm 24 Future Webs

Brilliant Design, this site has a lot of really cool inspiration, thanks!