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11.23.09

Surf Anywhere, Inside a Giant Wheel

This all-terrain board concept would thrill the PopSci editors of 75 years ago

By Dan Smith Posted 07.24.2009 at 12:24 pm 12 Comments

In-Loop: The curl on the street today is pretty gnarly, brah

Ever feel ripped off that you can only surf or snowboard in the confines of the ocean or on a snowy mountain? The new Loop-In design concept hopes to allow you to shred out of those constraints. Looking like a surf-/snow-/skateboard hybrid attached to two gigantic hoop wheels, the In-Loop promises radical movement just about anywhere, dude.

The Loop-In is still only a concept at this point, based upon the often-theorized, rarely used, huge overhead hoop wheel. In the wild 1920s and '30s, Popular Science had a mania for predicting revolutionary transport concepts that incorporated similar wheels.

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