Precisely. The device itself has a number of useful (and noble) applications in itself, and if its price was a bit more reasonable, it would make sense as a cost-effective conversion for individuals seeking a tricycle, but already own a bicycle. I have no problem with that.

What ticks me off is the method of marketing - it insinuates that perfectly capable Americans lack the ability or desire to balance a bicycle correctly. Typical American mentality of attempting to solve a problem through a lack of desire to learn or perform the proper method.

If it were not for the fact that a half-century of conditioning the general public into perceiving the wheelchair as being a un-chic method if invalid transport, someone would have long ago invented a motorized wheelchair and marketed it to healthy adults as an alternative to "stressful" walking. Come to think of it, they did - they made the rider stand up and called it a Segway.

-Kurt