While looking for instructions for lacing a bike wheel, I stumbled onto this lousy website of bike advice generated by an LLM. They also used AI to generate their images. Mostly that resulted in what you would expect: Spokes that split in two, spokes that disappear into nothingness, derailleurs floating in space.

But their AI took the lace part of lacing literally for one of the images, and accidentally created something like art.

@smellsofbikes we need to make you some wheels like this for your bikes
@MLE_online the very best kevlar, grown on the very best electronic sheep

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Kinda reminds me of the old Tioga Tension Disc. Been forever since I've seen one of those.

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If you followed mountain biking in the '90s, you might have dreamed about owning a Raleigh John Tomac Signature Carbon/Ti. This build mirrors Tomac's 1993/4 setup with an innovative carbon and titanium frame, Tioga Aviator fork, and the thundering Tioga Tension Disk.

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That wouldn't surprise me, given the technology at the time and the fact that it wasn't a dedicated hub/rim system. The system was basically tensioned Kevlar strands that replaced normal spokes, with a shell for protection.
@makingtolearn I totally felt like it was a solution looking for a problem and introducing other problems as it did so. I never saw one in the wild.