The Official Hubless Wheel hater thread.

You’re only anti-innovation if the hubless wheel is innovation.

I’m with you, looks cool but impractical. Most of the bicycle concepts with hubless wheels get lots of other things wrong- geometry, gearing, brakes, no cable runs etc.
Also the BMX you’ve posted and todays Core77 example, the ‘axel’ (where the wheel joins the frame and fork) are in stupid places- any stone on the road or curb would smash into the frame.

This is wheel innovation (rimshot):
http://www.michelin.com/corporate/actualites/en/actu_affich.jsp?id=17448&lang=EN&codeRubrique=4&actu=true

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7gANJWRWIs

53 seconds in- kaboom