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That front bike section looks so cool. I guess it's so alien looking because the whole section turns instead of just the wheel which affords it more creative license than a traditional handlebar attached to a fork.

I bet it also feels alien to turn a steering wheel with your feet on bike pedals.

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A USA company has/had a patent on a pivoting bottom bracket bike transmission like this and has been making bikes for a while.

https://cruzbike.com/

I'm not sure where you grew up, but in the US we had a kid's toy called a Big Wheel which your feet had to turn with when you turned the handlebars. It was wildly awkward, terribly designed, but we got really good at it, anyway. The pedals would even scrape concrete on turns often enough to wear them down.

There are also adult versions: https://youtu.be/moRE8IlNiMU

Those look dangerously fun. Looks like there's electric and gas powered versions, as well.

Much respect to the mad lad slowing his descent in flipflops, by the way.

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