YikeBike - The world's first super light electric folding bike.

This is neat. A poor man's Segway?

A New Zealand inventor has created a cool-looking folding electric bike for scooting around the city. YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial expression of the mini-farthing concept, created up by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers.

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5kph faster, 80% lighter , the price is about the same (according to google - segway do not publish prices)

I saw something with the name yike 2 weeks ago, same basic shape but I'm fairly sure it was plywood and aluminium, with gel-electrolyte lead-acid batteries.

must have been a prototype.

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Jasen Betts

segway prices in oz dollars:

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so they are at least twice as dear Jason, perhaps a lot more when prices are finalized.

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Don McKenzie

WOW

He's Invented a Penny-Farthing....with a motor.

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son of a bitch

1 kilowatt, useless without law change in most if not all of australia. We need more sensible law makers.
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F Murtz

200Watts, as law in NSW, is ample for achieving the objectives. Of course, there will always be lard arses.

Simple mathematics says anything with a 1Kw motor will either weight more than the human body(econimocal batteries), or cost more that a medium car (lightest batteries) or have such a short range that it is effectively a lard arse device to save people working a few city blocks.

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terryc

They are the ones that say their machine is 1 kilowatt who am I to argue.If it is it can not be used without rego and it would not pass regulations.

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F Murtz

Original reaction DykeBike

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SG1

DinkBike is more like it. They'll make a fortune selling to the cashed up inner city crowd. Smart marketing.

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Bruce Varley

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