Will This Bicycle Ever Gain Traction?

When (mostly) young people with self-taught computer skills have too much time on their hands, they...hack, steal identities and scam people.

When engineers (again, mostly young)have too much time on their hands, they create technically sophisticated and completely impractical things.  At least they're doing it for fun, at least sometimes.

A case in point is a bicycle without wheels.

Now, this bicycle could, at least in theory, move across certain kinds of terrain and roadways. 

Here, however, the term "move" is somewhat elastic.  Yes, they can traverse said real estate but, as one commenter said, "Finally, some one made a mode of transportation that's as fast as walking with ten times the effort."

Just what the world was waiting for, right? 

A Concrete Example

During the many years I've cycled and worked in bike shops, I've seen plenty of "innovations" that made me wonder, "Why?"

Sometimes, of course, the answer is, "because we can!"  I'm sure would've been the answer from the creators of a concrete bicycle.  

Yes, you read that right:  a bicycle made from the same stuff that lines sidewalks and encases the enemies of organized crime bosses tossed into bodies of water.

Of course, there is no earthly reason for such a bike:  It's too heavy and inefficient to move faster than a crawl.  That's probably a good thing because the bike is too brittle to survive much more of a shock than a crack in one of the sidewalks that could have been made from its material.

At least they gave me a good subject for my weekly "Sunday funnies" series.