Week 10 #2: silly patents 2

In this blogpost I will be talking about Be the Bike patent.

As you can see from the picture, the patent name pretty much explains it. The patent says "the body of the rider acts as a connecting means between the front and rear roller assemblies and allows high performance riding, exercise, and competition".

The first thing I thought of when I saw this was how dangerous this could be. For one, this requires incredible amount of stabilizing muscles in your body because you want to keep yourself in that position the entire ride no matter what kind of road you are going through. If your body stretches just a little bit too far, it would be incredibly difficult to get yourself back up. Even in a regular bike, people find it hard to balance themselves during bumpy roads because it requires a lot of strength.

Also I noticed how since there were no pedals, this could only work downhill or if the parts were motorized. Given that it is a motorized means of transportation, it would also be extremely dangerous because there is no safe way for you to stop in case of an emergency. If you fall, then you would be rolling over yourself in high speed and could easily break your bones.

Overall, although this patent might be non obvious, I think it is way beyond what we can truly use to roam the streets. This means of transportation would create so much liability and be extremely dangerous for the average user.