Flywheel Bike KERS

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[TheronGBurrough]

Oh, Boy! A homemade, high-speed flywheel rotating just beneath my groin!

[colinfurze]

Amazing, I love a bike build/project and this was spot on

[NicholasRehm]

Achievement Unlocked: Tom Stanton has advanced into the Iron Age

[tay-lore]

The sound coming from these gears made me appreciate how well made bicycles are

[Habakouk]

"However, you can't charge and discharge this batterys not nearly as fast as this flywheel..." Sounds like a new Super Capacitor Project :-)

[TCOmuns]

Get the flywheel up to high speed when going down hill, then use that energy to assist when climbing the next hill.

[Karatektus]

"from breaking loose at high rpm" - he means: "from slicing me in half"

[dolorlux]

You need a 19lbs plate and a transmission to a higher gear ratio to get more value out of the discharge. You'll see a dramatic change in how aggressive the takeoff will be. A sort of tapping of the clutch can get you up to a pretty high speed. I'd recommend doing the transmission from the other side of the bike.

A sort of 2chainz bike if you will.

[lovelessperformance]

Lube. Lube those gears. You’re losing a tremendous amount of energy in friction on those chunky cogs.

[RedFenceAnime]

I can already imagine V2 of this bike:
Tom pedaling next to you at a red light.
You look at him weird.
Then green light > clutch engage > zoom away.
You in dust.

[ursa_margo]

There's a HUGE problem with flywheels, as a large mass rotating at high speed introduces unpredictable changes in behavior of the entire system, when turning left or right.

[why_i_game]

Going down a hill you could get the RPMs up really high, then use it to help with going up the hill on the other side.

[ride_along]

Hey, that sounds like an amazing Sack Shredder

[LuizTheSnek]

Youtuber: talking about raid-
Literally every soul in this planet: *SKIP 10S SKIP 10S SKIP10S**

[ztirffritz]

UK Guy: I found people selling steel discs on eBay.
US Guy: targets. You bought targets.

[GlorifiedGremlin]

I found myself nodding in understanding multiple times through this video lmao you're so good at explaining these things without having to dumb down the concepts

[coatduck]

has the added bonus of sounding like a TIE fighter as you ride by your friends.

[deividux]

Tom, you need 2 gears for the fly-wheel, a high gear-ratio for slowing down and a low-gear-ratio for speeding up, think of this this way when equilibrium is reached you want fly wheel speed high relative to wheel speed, but when speeding up you want the wheel speed to be high relative to fly wheel, anything inbetween can "solved" with your clutch.

[suchyysuchar]

0.086mm error when drilling holes, 2cm error when hanging pictures on the wall ;-) priorities!

[zWjwRbiM_st]

Whoa, the flywheel’s almost as heavy as a whole lightweight bike 😂 No wonder it takes a ton of energy to get it going and keep it moving—and yeah, you don’t get much of that energy back, so it’s not exactly the most efficient setup. But honestly, as a huge F1 fan and someone who’s super into cycling, this was such a cool experiment to watch. Loved seeing an idea that feels like something a kid would dream up actually come to life. Thanks for making it happen—awesome vid!