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.
Cheers Don...
5kph faster, 80% lighter , the price is about the same (according to google - segway do not publish prices)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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segway prices in oz dollars:
so they are at least twice as dear Jason, perhaps a lot more when prices are finalized.
Cheers Don...
WOW
He's Invented a Penny-Farthing....with a motor.
1 kilowatt, useless without law change in most if not all of australia. We need more sensible law makers.
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.
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.
Original reaction DykeBike
DinkBike is more like it. They'll make a fortune selling to the cashed up inner city crowd. Smart marketing.
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