I was going to say "are we stuck with the same bicycle UX forever".

Because we've been stuck with the same bicycle UX for like 150 years now.

Sometimes shit just works right, just about straight out of the gate.

DangitBobby 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There have been absolute fucking gobs of UX changes to bikes in just the last 5 years. They just usually end up on mid range or higher end bikes. Obviously they don't fundamentally change the way a bike works, otherwise it wouldn't be a bike anymore.

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esafak 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is what bicycles originally looked like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocipede#/media/File:Velocip...

	▲	ErroneousBosh 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, something like 200 years ago. By the 1870s we'd pretty much standardised on the "Safety Bicycle", which had a couple of smallish wheels about two and a half feet in olden days measurements in diameter, with a chain drive from a set of pedals mounted low in the frame to the rear wheel. By the end of the 1880s, you had companies mass-producing bikes that wouldn't look unreasonable today. All we've done since is make them out of lighter metal, improve the brakes from pull rods to cables to hydraulic discs brakes, and give them more gears (it wouldn't be until the early 1900s that the first hub gears became available, with - perhaps surprisingly - derailleurs only coming along 100 years ago). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_bicycle