This amazing walking bike is engineering at its best

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This amazing walking bike is engineering at its best

It's a walking bicycle. That's what it is. And no matter how much we explain why and who and what and when, it's still a walking bicycle, and it's still absolutely bonkers. 

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It's not actually meant to be practical (as you can pretty much tell from the video above) but the creators - CARV - describe it as "a mechanical artwork". 

Eight months ago, the designer, known only as J.P, got the idea from Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest leg system, and a team came on board to create the 400-part bicycle we see in front of us today. 

"We spent about 3 hours a night, on Monday through Wednesday each week, slowly progressing through layout, material buying, mockups, jigs, cutting, welding, and bolting," J.P wrote on the CARV website

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All the hard work paid off in the end, however, because 1) walking bike, and 2) the project is now featuring in the Strandbeest show "After Dark: BYOBeest" at The Exploratorium in San Francisco. 

Danielle de Wolfe

As a former Shortlist Staff Writer, Danielle spends most of her time compiling lists of the best ways to avoid using the Central Line at rush hour.