Looks amazing, however this isn't hubless, the commentator said it best, it's a giant sprocket. Essentially it's a big ass hub. If it were truly hubless it would be levitating. Looks sick though, kudos to this mad builder genius!

Franco Sbarro invented the hubless wheel in 1989

just like magic, giant bearing

Interesting artistic and mechanical designs, but for a vehicle that will need to handle street and highway driving in various weather conditions this is impractical. Get a little mud in a bearing...oopsie.

When is your breaka

awesome!!! never heard in real life could imagine NOISY??? but very cool and id drive one of those myself!

and why we dont see them on the rode or bikes ......hmmmm maybe to expebsive

10K for the bearing?!??!? fuck that.....couple hundy, maybe....oh, and beat on it with a hammer...

Does anyone anywhere have billy lane vs Russell mitchell biker build off dvd if yes let me know

People are copy catting now the hubless which is bs Billy you the man and did it first

lol. So glad we have KZfaq now.

How make hubless wheel

I saw him ask a question you have this huge ass piece of material that sticks out on the left-hand side of the tire how in the hell do you even turn. I mean when I ride my BMW I scrub that tire all the way out to the edge I’m gonna take and grind that chain into the asphalt. What a stupid design

You never hit or press both races of a bearing. EVER. You are transferring energy through the balls and making flat spots and bumps on inner and outer rings and the balls. Your video should be called how to screw up a precision $10,000 bearing!

Yes, that's exactly what I was thinking... where's the grease? Probably did behind the scenes to keep it clean?

Creative engineering is perfection

This guy must have been abused as a child. Equations and interpolate: does he even know the meaning of the words. And yes, Franco Sbarro came up with a perfectly operational design for the hubless wheel.

மழை தண்ணி ல போலாமா பெரிய மெக்கானிசம் Hub wheel ல விட ரொம்ப. விலை கம்மி

this guy is a zero. no wonder he moved to tenn hahahahahah better social services in tenn hahahahah

Why do you have to run a jack shaft?

wow , he loves himself but its all done before , interpullate ????? what an idiot !!!

"i had to make up an equation" lol every circle has 360 degrees dummy. you could evenly space any number of bolts you want. you won't end up with a fraction of a bolt. you end up with a space between each bolt that is a fraction of an inch.

How did you do the hard tail?

Goodjob👍

Is there a suspension for hubless wheel travel, back or front?

Oye por gue está tan bajita la moto

Still wondering how braking is done

Lived right by your shop in Melbourne, Good ole Billy, prolly one of if not thee best builder's out there!!

Shear you buy bearing

who invented the hubless wheel..

Gears of War, the early years

Muito top!

it looks cool but whats the range of useablity it doesn't look like its gonna take some rough use

10 thousand dollar bearing and continues to whack it lol

3 bolts holding the back end .maybe on bicycle.

Will the sound of that bearing I could make it on machine vice and ad ball bearing.crapy design no shocks wana se the power in right hand corners.

The hubless wheel was invented in Switzerland by Franko Sbarro in the 80's. Its good to see it in use.

I guess I'm more of a function over form type of person. There's no way in hell I'd add that much weight and complexity to a motorcycle of all things just to show off. That thing must weigh a thousand pounds all complete. Worked in shop where next door they were building bikes in the 800 lbs range. All solid steel structure and they still fell apart after a few thousand miles. Naa, not for me. Simple, light and functional. That's the ticket.

Amazing...I believe ill still use my wired wheel though...

I recall a cycle world article written by the fantastic Kevin Cameron on Billy Lanes shop, "Choppers Inc." its bikes, and in particular the hubless chopper. Billy took inspiration from helicopter propeller shaft bearing set ups amd materials and using his engineering education and creativity adapted them to his bike. It was ridable, reliable and durable. A watershed design in the chopperworld wasteland of the time.

Billy lane went to prison for 7 years for killing a person while he was drunk behind the wheel!!

That’s a big ass rear sprocket. Bike top speed.... 2mph

I wouldn’t say he created an equation. Simple gear ratios and tire diameter

$10k bearing....lets hit it with a hammer.

I have no respect for a man that took a life of a person because he was drunk behind the wheel!!!

Sounds shit when spun .....

Ghost in the Shell made in reality! That looks tight!!!

No loc-tite? No torque wrench? YOU ride it!

10k$ bearing eh?.....”appearance “ of hubless maybe but I’ll bet Billy had never seen an excavator swing bearing.

Sir I'm from Bangladesh want to work with byke making its my dream profession can i get a chance.