Chapter 167 Bicycles that Have Nothing to Do with Magic

In the middle of March, the cold of winter has completely faded away, and the land outside Bangta that had been frozen due to the severe cold began to become hot and humid, and countless green grasses broke out from the soil.

In this season, it is a good time to go out for an outing, so when the weather is fine, there will always be countless young masters and young ladies from noble families riding their luxury carriages out of Bangta City towards the green fields outside the city. set off.

Although the outside of Bangta City is now surrounded by several straight and flat roads, the western suburbs have been identified as industrial areas by the city lord and are full of various factories, leaving little green space, but the southern suburbs have been blocked by the city lord The adults determined that it is a leisure and entertainment area, not only retaining green grass and trees, but also opening a canal to bring in the water of the Sandy River, transforming this southern suburb, which was originally just a wilderness, into an existing green hills and green waters. , and the perfect place for birds and flowers.

Today is another sunny day, the sun has just risen in the sky, and the carriages of countless noble families in the city are driving out of the south gate of Bangta City, heading towards the greenery in the south of the city.

Countless aristocratic young masters and young ladies plan to take advantage of this good weather to go out to the countryside and hold a relaxing and joyful wild feast.

Today, however, was a little different than usual.

Among the countless carriages that rushed out of the city gate, there were two different things mixed in.

The young masters and young ladies in the carriage heard the exclamations outside, and opened the curtains of the carriage one after another, and saw two people sitting on the road leading to the southern suburbs. Flat, weird-looking stuff on top.

The two people stepped on two pedals under their feet, and they kept pedaling with their feet, spinning rapidly around a disc.

With the turntable, the two wheels on the iron frame kept rolling forward, driving the two people to keep moving forward on the road.

What surprised everyone was that the strange thing the two were sitting on obviously looked very thin, and there was only a bracket for everything except two wheels. However, he was able to lead the two people above at a rapid pace, and even surpassed several carriages in an instant, and ran to the front of many nobles, young masters and young ladies.

Watching those two people stepping on this unknown strange thing galloping fast on the highway, no matter if it is the nobles, young masters and ladies on the carriage. Or the pedestrians on the road, can not help but stunned.

What the hell are those two people sitting under their butts? How can you run so fast with them?

However, those two people actually disappeared in the distance of the road, so that the questions in everyone's heart could not be answered.

The next day was sunny again.

As usual, countless carriages drove out of the city gate and ran out of the city.

But at the same nine o'clock in the morning, those two grotesque things rushed out of the city gate carrying two people again, overtook countless carriages once again, and disappeared at the far end of the road.

The doubts in people's minds deepened.

On the third day, it was sunny again.

The same situation played out again.

Day 4...

Day 5...

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For a whole week, every day was a rare sunny day. Every day, countless nobles and young ladies wanted to go out for an outing. But every day, those two monsters rushed out of the city gate with two people, and then quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

The accumulation of seven consecutive days made this mysterious strange thing spread throughout the city of Bangta, arousing the curiosity in everyone's heart.

Some good people have been waiting outside the South City Gate in the next few days, and painted the appearance of the two strange-looking things.

After analysis. Everyone found that the principle of these two strange-looking things is actually very simple. They are only pressed on the ground by two flat tires, supported by an iron frame, and then driven by two connected gears. Finally, let the top People use the pedals as power.

However, the principle seems to be very simple, these two strange things can run so fast under the drive of human power. It's just kind of incredible.

At the beginning, people didn't know what this thing was and where it came from, but then some careful people guessed a little from the two tires.

Now only the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce produces such things as tires. In addition, the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has always been able to produce all kinds of strange things, so these two strange things are most likely to be newly developed magic machines by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce!

All doubts and guesses were finally answered on the eighth day. .

Early in the morning on the eighth day, the newly released "Banta Daily" finally revealed the answer.

People guessed right, these two strange things are indeed the latest products developed by the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, but it is not the same as everyone imagined, and this thing has nothing to do with magic.

This thing called a bicycle is a human-powered machine. Completely human powered, no magic involved.

But even if it is only driven by human power, as long as the person riding the bicycle is strong enough, the speed of the bicycle can still be made very fast.

According to the internal information obtained by the "Banta Daily", it is said that when the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is testing the bicycle, it can even start from the city of Bangta in the early morning and arrive at the Rainfall Valley before noon.

You must know that Rainfall Valley and Bangta City are 60 kilometers apart, and it takes more than three hours to run even with the best carriage.

The speed of this bicycle is actually not much slower than the best carriage!

Seeing the report of the "Banta Daily", people immediately boiled.

With such a good thing, it will be much more convenient when traveling in the future!

Although the carriage is good, raising a horse is simply unaffordable for ordinary families.

Although the urban public transportation system in Bangta City has also begun to be gradually established, it is possible to take a carriage to most of the places you want to go, but it costs money to take a carriage, not to mention that there are many places that cannot be reached by a carriage.

Compared with this simple and lightweight bicycle, the carriage is undoubtedly much bulkier.

So after confirming that this bicycle was indeed produced by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, the gate of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce Product Service Center in the city was instantly smashed by countless people, and countless people came to ask when the bike would go on sale. Everyone can't wait to buy one.

"It seems that there is no need to worry about the sales of this bicycle." Xu Yi laughed, put down the "Banta Daily" in his hand, and turned his head to look at the magic machine tool R&D workshop. Driven by a wind-based magic engine, the tires are turning at high speed. bike.

Strictly speaking, this bike is just an accessory developed by Xu Yi to develop the engine.

Although the bicycle is only an unimportant commercial product in the light industry system, the bicycle product contains a lot of like extremely important engineering technology.

Such as power structure, bearing drive, gear casting and a series of technologies that can be applied in many aspects. will be used in bicycle production.

Xu also asked Camby and others to develop bicycles. In addition to adding a new product to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, it also allowed Camby and others to gain more experience and theoretical knowledge about these technologies during the research and development process.

This is very different from Earth.

Mechanical engineers on earth first learn theoretical knowledge and then start practical production.

And the mechanical engineers represented by Camby in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. However, under the guidance of Xu Yi, he first carried out practical production, and then learned theoretical knowledge.

This is also impossible. Xu Yi wants to speed up the development of the industrial system, so he can only forcefully instill his theoretical knowledge into them like this.

Fortunately, the dwarves such as Camby are really super talented in this regard. Xu Yi just mentioned it a little, and they can deeply understand and even draw inferences.

Through the development of bicycles, Camby and others have become mechanical engineers with a better understanding of dynamic theory.

The next step, Xu Yi is to let them combine the wind-based magic engine that has been developed to a certain extent to the bicycle.

If a magic bicycle with a wind-based magic engine as the driving force can be manufactured again, it means that the research and development of the magic engine can really be used in practice.

Now the experiment being done by Camby et al. It is a power output stability test of the wind-based magic engine and a test of the bearing strength.

Now this test has been going on for a full ten days, but the effect has always left Xu Yi unsatisfied.

The first is that the wind-type magic power engine cannot maintain its output all the time, but it often stops without warning, and the output power has always been sometimes fast and sometimes slow.

After careful inspection by Xu Yi and several researchers from the Magic Research Institute, it was found that this was because the wind magic circle engraved on the inside of the engine was caused by the high-speed rotation of the bearings inside the engine. The air flow inside the engine is turbulent, which has a certain impact on the magic circle, thereby affecting the output power.

If this influence accumulates to a certain extent, the magic circle will temporarily lose its effect, thereby causing the engine to lose its driving force.

Another very important issue is the material issue.

The gears and bearings of the bicycle are not too problematic at low speeds, but after maintaining high speeds for a long time. Loss will be greatly increased.

According to the evaluation, if the wind-based magic engine is kept running at the highest speed, whether it is the bearing of the bicycle or the bearing of the engine itself, it may not last for ten hours, and there will be extremely strong wear and tear or even breakage.

Xu also has no way to do this for the time being.

Because this is a material problem, and the material problem happens to be the hardest problem to solve in an industrial system.

Although the celestial dynasties on earth have basically perfect industrial systems. But it has been lagging behind in material technology.

As a mechanical engineer in the Celestial Dynasty, Xu Yi was not particularly good at material issues, and coupled with national restrictions, he was even more unable to master the most advanced material technology.

Regarding this issue, he can only pin his hopes on the Materials Research Institute led by the patriarch Shi Lui.

before this. This material research institute, led by the patriarch Shi Lu, has given Xu Yi a lot of surprises.

Now Xu Yi handed this question to him, and then waited until the non-ferrous metal ore veins on the black rice wasteland were mined and smelted, I believe Patriarch Shi Luby would give Xu Yi a satisfactory answer.

Until then, we can only wait patiently.

No matter how eager Xu Yi is about engine research and development, mechanical technology research and development cannot tolerate the slightest negligence.

As a genius mechanical engineer on earth, Xu also has this awareness and also has this patience.