caotropheus
07-13-09, 05:44 AM
Enjoy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8147104.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8147104.stm
Electric Bikes - If you stop pedaling it will stop!
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suncoast_dan
07-13-09, 07:53 AM
Oh wow, that video is just FULL of goodies!
"Sorry, if you're too lazy, you can just schtay!"
Bike looks pretty awesome. Seems like everything else in this vein is EITHER a low powered assist, or a high powered bike with traditional throttle. This is a cool concept - would love to try a more reasonably priced example. . .
"Sorry, if you're too lazy, you can just schtay!"
Bike looks pretty awesome. Seems like everything else in this vein is EITHER a low powered assist, or a high powered bike with traditional throttle. This is a cool concept - would love to try a more reasonably priced example. . .
kbdog
07-14-09, 06:55 PM
Looks a bit fast for my liking. I noticed the bike seemed to be accessing controlled access highways. The inventor presumably had permission to do this.
The $40,000 price is a bit more than my Bionx kits.
Did anyone notice the 'inventor' seemed to imply he had come up with the idea of pedal assist?
The $40,000 price is a bit more than my Bionx kits.
Did anyone notice the 'inventor' seemed to imply he had come up with the idea of pedal assist?
GTALuigi
07-14-09, 07:34 PM
Not new at all....
it works, and rides exactly like the BionX, just twice as fast.
but also from the design and looks of it, the e-Rocket is also 3 times as heavy.
The price is not attractive at all.
eBikes can go much faster, if the government stops tagging laws into the manufacture to make them safe and the requirement of speed limiter.
if they abolish that law, i'm sure most manufacture will actually push out more powerful and faster eBike motors.
Enjoy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8147104.stm
it works, and rides exactly like the BionX, just twice as fast.
but also from the design and looks of it, the e-Rocket is also 3 times as heavy.
The price is not attractive at all.
eBikes can go much faster, if the government stops tagging laws into the manufacture to make them safe and the requirement of speed limiter.
if they abolish that law, i'm sure most manufacture will actually push out more powerful and faster eBike motors.
Enjoy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8147104.stm
cerewa
07-15-09, 08:38 AM
Looks a bit fast for my liking. I noticed the bike seemed to be accessing controlled access highways. The inventor presumably had permission to do this.
It's a motorcycle with electric instead of gas, and pedals added. Should be legal as a motorcycle just about anywhere, I would guess. (ask your lawyer if you really want to know.) The vast majority of the power for that thing, 90% maybe, is going to be coming from the batteries.
While the world's fastest bicycle (using human power on level ground) can go 82 miles per hour, it'd be very achievable to go 50mph using a 750 watt motor, a very-aerodynamic bike, and pedal power from a regular human. That'd put you at more like 30-50% human power (and really a pretty small amount of electric power) instead of the machine in the OP which I'm sure is a bit of a battery hog.
It's a motorcycle with electric instead of gas, and pedals added. Should be legal as a motorcycle just about anywhere, I would guess. (ask your lawyer if you really want to know.) The vast majority of the power for that thing, 90% maybe, is going to be coming from the batteries.
While the world's fastest bicycle (using human power on level ground) can go 82 miles per hour, it'd be very achievable to go 50mph using a 750 watt motor, a very-aerodynamic bike, and pedal power from a regular human. That'd put you at more like 30-50% human power (and really a pretty small amount of electric power) instead of the machine in the OP which I'm sure is a bit of a battery hog.
GTALuigi
07-15-09, 10:43 AM
basically something like this one :p
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-s-specs.php
It's a motorcycle with electric instead of gas, and pedals added. Should be legal as a motorcycle just about anywhere, I would guess. (ask your lawyer if you really want to know.) The vast majority of the power for that thing, 90% maybe, is going to be coming from the batteries.
While the world's fastest bicycle (using human power on level ground) can go 82 miles per hour, it'd be very achievable to go 50mph using a 750 watt motor, a very-aerodynamic bike, and pedal power from a regular human. That'd put you at more like 30-50% human power (and really a pretty small amount of electric power) instead of the machine in the OP which I'm sure is a bit of a battery hog.
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com/zero-s-specs.php
It's a motorcycle with electric instead of gas, and pedals added. Should be legal as a motorcycle just about anywhere, I would guess. (ask your lawyer if you really want to know.) The vast majority of the power for that thing, 90% maybe, is going to be coming from the batteries.
While the world's fastest bicycle (using human power on level ground) can go 82 miles per hour, it'd be very achievable to go 50mph using a 750 watt motor, a very-aerodynamic bike, and pedal power from a regular human. That'd put you at more like 30-50% human power (and really a pretty small amount of electric power) instead of the machine in the OP which I'm sure is a bit of a battery hog.