The bycycle.
Man with a bike he has owned since he was 12 but looks modern. The bike not the man. How much stuff do you own that looks younger than you?
Imagine what a car or plane or computer looked like 60 years ago and contrast progress with a bike.
One careful owner and 100,000 miles on the clock: Pensioner is still peddling around on the bike he received for his 12th birthday | Mail Online
Having said that, bikes are pretty efficient as far as the drive train goes (chain, gears, bearings), the human can be regarded as fixed technology though positioning and how muscles are used could be changed. Which leaves mainly aerodynamics and rolling resistance (tyres and road surface) to twiddle with. Tyres may have moved backwards with those knobbly things people use even in town. Aerodynamics are where most gains could be had and where little progress has been made to the bike itself except to allow a change in riding position.
Has the bicycle more or less technologically peaked?
Man with a bike he has owned since he was 12 but looks modern. The bike not the man. How much stuff do you own that looks younger than you?
Imagine what a car or plane or computer looked like 60 years ago and contrast progress with a bike.
One careful owner and 100,000 miles on the clock: Pensioner is still peddling around on the bike he received for his 12th birthday | Mail Online
Having said that, bikes are pretty efficient as far as the drive train goes (chain, gears, bearings), the human can be regarded as fixed technology though positioning and how muscles are used could be changed. Which leaves mainly aerodynamics and rolling resistance (tyres and road surface) to twiddle with. Tyres may have moved backwards with those knobbly things people use even in town. Aerodynamics are where most gains could be had and where little progress has been made to the bike itself except to allow a change in riding position.
Has the bicycle more or less technologically peaked?
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