future, STILL!

So I seem to be on this futuristic kick for some reason. Im still thinking about designing bikes and motorcycles and what not. Right now Im sorta working on this design for a recumbent bike, my original design wasnt recumbent, in fact it had the rider almost laying down on his stomach to ride the bike. I dont really know why it switched to recumbent, oh yeah! I remember now. AAAAAAANY way, i had this idea to have the rider be suspended, and i thought that one of the easiest ways would be to have the rider in a sitting recumbent postition, and then there would be a simple framework that connects the two tires from above the rider.
This is a very rough sketch I did on paint of my idea. The wheels would be hubless and connected by the framework to a fixed part on the sides of the wheel. I was working on a magnetic motor design that would fit inside of the wheels so that it wouldnt have to have a large motor in between the tires, giving the rider space to actually sit between the tires. Im assuming that the controls of powering up the bike could be settled by some wiring that would be in a small panel or something like that in front of the rider. The above sketch isnt quite what i was thinking of for the contour of the frame, but its actually not too bad. I was hoping to come up with a design thats rather simple and looks very minimal, but also looks fast and sleek, and i was hoping to achieve this in just the sketch of the idea, without and detail work to the color or texture or material of the frame. So the curve on the sketch is a little too high for what i was looking for. I want something thats a lot closer to the rider and closer to the ground.
As far as the details though, I figured that there would be a visibility problem based on having the frame in front of the rider. Thinking about this, thats what makes the design of a real bycycle or motorcycle such an appeal as far as a get up and go vehicle. Its already pretty minimal and there are no windshields on a bycycle and on most motorcycles. I dont like windshields on a motorcycle either, but I sort of wanted there to be some sort of a full screen panel/windsheild on this bike. So my idea is to have a metalic material, that looks pretty much just like sleek polished metal as the casing of the bike, or the frame rather. This would serve to make the bike basically one uniform color and overall look. Any pedestrians or onlookers would not be able to see inside or through the metal, but it would be see thru to the rider. Basically like a 2 way mirror, but made of a durable enough material that you would feel a lot safer if you crashed into a wall in this casing. It would have a sort of flight of the navigator look to it I suppose.


I was also working on a new idea for the wheels. This would mainly apply to the rear wheel and its not really a nessesity cause im sure the physics of it would work even if I didnt add this feature, but they might now. Anyway, its an idea to have the rear wheel able to sort of inflate so that it goes from being a really wide and flat tire to more of a robustness in the wheel. This would be so that no kickstand is required and so that the rider could travel at a very slow speed without tipping to either side. Then, when the rider increases speed, the tire could change its shape so that it could lean easier on a turn.

It would go from this shape...
to this shape.

The tire would be made of a series of panels that could sort of morph to create this more rounded shape. It would also allow for the rider to drive over sharp objects or bumps in the road and not feel it because the panels could respond to the terrain and allow for a little bit of a give.

Theres some more stuff to go along with this, but I should get to sleep now. My internet just turned off and even though this post gets saved while Im typing it, Im not going to take any more chances. That and I have to work in 3 and a half hours.