People Draw Bicycles From Memory, Artist Actually Builds Them

[geardaddy]

http://www.eatliver.com/impossible-bicycles/





Many more at link.

[missingthebigdog]

1. Lol

The seats are SO far from the handlebars in almost all of the drawings!

[Brother Buzz]

2. Looks like Graeme Obree's creation would be right at home in this collection

[uppityperson]

3. That's neat. k&r for something fun

[hunter]

4. Let's see, a bike that flips over backwards when you hit a bump, a bike that can't be steered...

... it's a museum of dangerous, useless machines.

[geardaddy]

5. I'm not sure they're meant to be functional.

It's an art project.

[hunter]

7. And an awesome one at that!

[TeeYiYi]

6. I'm a little confused....

...about whether the bikes were actually physically built, or if they are just really good 3D rendered illustrations.

Over several years designer Gianluca Gimini collected hundreds of drawings where his friends and strangers tried to draw a bicycle from memory and he started building realistic renderings of the bikes based on these sketches. Featured below are some of the funniest examples.
Read more at http://www.eatliver.com/impossible-bicycles/#wJT9kEkOlF81YlQx.99

Actually, if you look close, the perspective is off on a couple of them.

Still really cool, but I wanted them to be actual, rideable bicycles.



TYY