That the wheel is round is something that has been like this since it was invented. It is precisely its shape that gives it its value and it is such a good design that the phrase “no need to reinvent the wheel” makes it clear that it is not necessary to touch what already works. However, there are always those who want to give an extra twist to any concept… and thus triangular wheels were born.
They are the work of The Q channel, which is dedicated to presenting curious inventions with a lot of engineering behind them and which, without explaining how it reached its goal, set out to see how feasible it was to use a triangle as a base to make a wheel.
The truth is that this shape has many drawbacks when it comes to rolling, the main one being the fact that the length of the radius changes constantly, being maximum at the vertices and shortening noticeably at its sides, which results in quite a rebound. uncomfortable for the bicycle user.
However, it is something that he manages to deal with very effectively thanks to two solutions.
The first is to install, at the top of each wheel, a straight section with rollers, which acts as a limit and ensures that the wheel always maintains the same height from the ground. The second is the type of ‘sub frame’ used for the rear wheel, which acts as the suspension and prevents the swaying from being transferred to the entire bicycle.
Thanks to this, although logically a traditional model will always be better, it seems that this bicycle with triangular wheels is not completely uncomfortable.
As a curious fact, it seems that in recent months on The Q channel they have been quite focused on ‘reinventing the wheel’, and it is that they surprised some time ago with the presentation of a bicycle with square wheels.
Of course, given the peculiarity of the shape, the focus of the invention changed and that is, instead of being a wheel that turned, it was a square that had a kind of caterpillar on its perimeter, which was the area that moved when pedaling. .
