[jstimpfle]

The usual allegoric rebuttal is to show how many types of wheel there are, and how wheels have improved over time. The wheel as a basic concept is to mount a rotating circular shaped thing on a platform for moving. The first wheels were made of wood, at some point spokes were introduced, then other materials. Many more innovations (many of them mutually exclusive) are required to realize a formula 1 car, or a ralley car, or a bus, or a plane.

[bee_rider]

There is so much work put into bicycle wheels, and you can carefully select a wheel depending on if you are building a time trial bike, a regular road bike, a commuter bike, mountain bike…

If we could create physical things as easily as software, we’d absolutely see bicycle hobbyists and certainly little shops designing their own wheels.