Here is Ballistic Cycles 30″ Hubless Wheel, Twin Turbo, Full Aluminum Body, Air/Liquid Cooled, Harley Bagger rolling in Sturgis 2014. This Bagger is the sickest you will ever see. We won Baddest Bagger at Full Throttle Saloon, Deadwoods Nastiest Bagger, and Best of Show at the Easy Rider Saloon.
One example of hubless wheels are those used in the Tron: Legacy light cycle. The illuminated, street-legal motorcycle was sold through Hammacher Schlemmer, inspired by the computer animated cycle from the 2010 film Tron: Legacy. Designed for casual cruising and slow ride-bys at shows, it is made from a steel frame covered by a fiberglass cowling that replicates the sleek look of its computer-generated imagery counterpart. Electroluminescent strips built into the tire cowlings, wheel rims, and body illuminate the cycle. It is powered by a fuel-injected Suzuki 996 cc (60.8 cu in), 4-stroke engine. Riders lie at a near-horizontal position astride the padded leather seat, with feet on foot pegs that control its 6-speed constant-mesh manual transmission and hands on the handlebars for throttle and braking. The hubless wheels are former truck tires built up then custom-shaped to fit onto one of two counter-rotating rims spinning within each other, providing the broad-tired authenticity of the computer cycles from the movie.
The Skatecycle invented by Alon Karpman, contains the first hubless wheels to be mass-produced. Its design consists of a double-jointed twisting axle connected to two standing platforms surrounded by 9″ polyurethane hubless wheels. In order to engage the unit, the rider needs to twist their feet inwards and outwards. It is the first hubless wheel to employ a practical use for the hollow space as a platform in the center where the user stands, and in recognition of this, has received the Bronze 2010 IDEA award in the transportation category-(as part of this award, the Skatecycle became part of the permanent collection at the Henry Ford Museum).
Another example of a hubless vehicle is the “Zero Bike”, a lightweight hubless bicycle whose non working prototype won an Industrial Design Excellence Award in 1991. Its design is based on the principle of magnetic superconductivity, also used in high-speed trains that are suspended above rails.
