Duncan Fitzsimmons, a mountain biking enthusiast and industrial designer, has come up with a prototype of a full-sized road or mountain bike folding wheel. The folding wheel allows commuters and those who need to store their bicycles or wheelchairs to collapse the wheels into long and flat compact positions. This facilitates storing your ride, for example, in slim tall public lockers or above a train seats on a luggage rack.
Carbon fiber is Duncan's wheel material of choice in order to reduce the total weight of the wheel, given the added weight of the hardware and hinges. You can check out more photos and a video of the wheel prototyping process on Duncan's site.
Photos lifted from Duncan's site. Original link sent to me by Customer Shawn from bikeradar.com
