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Old 12-23-13, 12:30 PM
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It sounds to me like the controls and sensors, including GPS, are integrated in the bike and the mobile app is more of a user interface and navigation processing. This is a good idea; I can't really fault it. The LED array navigation, excellent! I hope that the lights at least have a physically activated on/off switch - many of us sometimes just want to get on and ride, no phone, no setup, just flip the switch and go.

I imagine that not many people here have personally started a bicycle company, so you're on your own about that. But I can tell you that one recurring mistake that I've read about is taking a good idea and then specializing the end product so much that the business won't scale. So my only suggestion is to make sure that the bicycle is designed for as general a market as possible. I think that means that you'll have to pay as much attention to the bike's design as you do to the innovations. The bike has to be suitable to ride, no matter what else you do to it.
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