Super fast bike could revolutionize transportation
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
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It's certainly a head-turner. Whizzing around the streets of Berlin - this is the "ErockIT". Half-bicycle, half-motorbike, Stefan Gulas has been working on his invention for the past four years:
[Stefan Gulas, ErockIT Inventor]:
"It's a motorbike and in a certain sense it's also a bicycle, because the motorbike works as a bicycle. So you have to pedal in order to travel forwards. The pedals act as a type of accelerator. So you don't have an accelerator on the handlebars but you have to pedal. And the quicker you pedal the faster the motor goes."
And this pedaling also charges up the bike's battery. Gulas is convinced the ErockIT - which can travel up to 80 kilometers, or almost 50 miles an hour, is a transport revolution.
[Stefan Gulas, ErockIT Inventor]:
"The thing I'm most proud of is that we've managed to make a cool electric vehicle. There are lots of vehicles with petrol engines that are cool - you just need to go and take a look at them, Ducatis or cars like Porsches and Ferraris. They're cool vehicles, but they all have petrol engines."
The bike may have the looks. But it seems people don't quite know what to make of it.
[Martin Alridge, Likes ErockIT]:
"From the speed, I'd say it's a motorbike, but he pedals it, so it's a push bike. So it's a bicycle. But an amazing thing, absolutely amazing. I want one."
The others who want one should be prepared to dig deep into their pockets.
An "ErockIT" costs 30-thousand euros - or around 44-thousand U.S. dollars - and customers have to put down 25 000 euros when they place an order.
For his part - Gulas says he expects the bike will appeal to creative, successful, people.
For those who don't know, electric assist bicycles have been around for many years, long before this guy built his vehicle. But his is not a bicycle. It's an electric motorcycle, because of its speed, power, and heavy construction. The pedals are really just for show. It takes a lot of power to overcome wind resistance at that speed, and the amount he is contributing with his pedaling is insignificant. It's really just an electric motorcycle with an unconventional throttle control. On electric bicycles, the rider's pedaling actually does provide the primary contribution to the propulsion, or at least a significant contribution.
The pedals are the throttle.
Phil Corris Yes, that's why I said "It's really just an electric motorcycle with an unconventional throttle control." The pedals are the throttle, but the amount of power being provided by the rider's legs is insignificant relative to the motor. You could throw away the pedals and replace the throttle with a traditional twist throttle without any significant effect on the performance. That's not true of traditional pedal assist electric bicycles that wouldn't have enough power to make it up a lot of hills without human power input through the pedals.
So true. Too bad most people without a technical background do not understand these concepts. It is an obvious scam in that sense. As far as being an electric motorcycle, looks dangerous to me. Too much like a bike!
Dan Sanger
The pedals power the alternator. Obviously, this does not provide enough power to operate this thing, but it will greatly extend its range. Energy is not free. It would give some resistance from turning the alternator.
ardvarkkkkk1 Nonsense... This bike is using kilowatts of electricity to achieve the kind of performance metrics being discussed and at best the pedal input may render 100W over an hour drive. This is hardly worth the effort other than the operator is getting some exercise which is what I think the designer intended. Dan Sanger knows what he's talking about...
This guy is a genius, he figured out how to sell ice to Eskimos!
oh look, he gave the eletric bike a different throttle and made it more expensive than the average car! How revolutionary!
lol
exactly. The press in general is soooo braindead and idiotic, it is tragic.
+97GoldDust IBM's first computer cost $55,000, the first calculator cost $2500, and the first cars cost nearly $100,000 (by today's inflation), that is until Henry Ford found a way to produce them more effectively and the price dropped to $18,000 (today's). Initial prices for new concepts are always high, but if there is a NEED for the item- we'll find a way to make it cheaper.
OPTIMAL GRAPHICS that has nothing to do with this electric bike. There are other electric bikes just as fast but way cheaper than this. The reason why it's so expensive is because he thinks it's "revolutionary" and people would be willing to buy it. The only difference between this and other electric bikes is that you have to pedal it to adjust the speed. It's a stupid idea if you ask me.
+97GoldDust I also noticed price of some of the other electric bikes you might as well by a used car. Anything over a 1000 dollars not worth it
this is just crazy and old school, its like the beginning from bicycle to motorcycle...
Yeah, yeah. I've heard it all before. Remember, "The Segway will revolutionize transportation". I haven't seen too many of them around lately.
Cut the price by 80% and it may stand a chance.
Out of a lot of revolutionary designs I've seen, this looks very intriguing. The pedal concept is very innovative.
$44k. Yeah, brilliant. Won't revolutionize squat at that price.
The price is revolutionary I think 😁
A few years later and this is the main tech used in E bikes (pedal assist)
used motorcycle-style bicycle- $50
125 CC engine w/ 5 speed gearbox- $200
this thing- many complex parts with more room for something to go wrong, and cost 44 grand
It has a motor. It has two wheels. It is NOT powered by pedaling. It's a motorbike.
***** the pedal action acts as a throttle and is not the source of propulsion. What do you call the Volt? A quadcycle?
***** I could define a motorbike but it was quicker to point out why this isn't. Basically anything that isn't practically propelled by human effort is a motorbike. Regarding the ErockIT, the usual right handed throttle is merely replaced with pedal action. Nothing else is different to what would be called a motorbike. A bicycle's propulsion comes from electrochemical gradients in your body and for what we call eBikes in Melbourne, some assistance from an electric motor. Even with a motor attached to a bicycle you can still propel it by pedaling. With the ErockIT, you can't (because the pedals are a throttle and I think this is the source of people's confusion). I'd like to see a TT Zero competitor waddle his electric bicycle (your definition) around the track while the rest are averaging 175 km/h. The definition is important because I don't want my safety compromised by existing with this MOTORBIKE in my bicycle lane while commuting. It's obviously quick enough to keep up with car traffic. Plus I think I'm qualified to make comment considering I ride two motorbikes (sports and trail) and two bicycles (road and mountain).
***** haha, I'm currently selling my F4i and commuting on my 'tarded XR400. Mileage is better, rego is cheaper, it's safer (I can see over car roofs and it's loud), plus I get to have fun in the bush, unlike the F4i... just commuting had me bored of it. I commute on the bicycle some days but at 22 km one way I'm looking into eBikes. Hence why I saw this video. What mods have you got on the XR? I'm going to rebuild the top end because I need to fix the ACCT. Might upgrade the stator for night trail riding and install the mikuni carb, heard good things about it.
Какой мотоцикл?????? это мелкие шаги в будущее
***** Pedaling charges the batteries, the batteries power the motor, the motor propels the vehicle. So yes, pedaling does propel it.
What nobody is talking about is the efficiency of such a bike is over 100%. However, if that was to be brought up the entire project could be scrapped and the inventor killed (the fate of Stan Meyers). The laws of conservation of energy are rubbish when you have numerous examples that defy them. A law can only be considered a law when there are no exceptions.
Efficiency can not be over 100%.
All the same, fuckin' cool bike!
Efficiency CAN be well over 100% the laws of conservation of energy are bogus. The British turned Eisenstein into a celebrity because he was wrong.
Naoki Kashima It probably has to be plugged in, or it runs off of a motor that charges the battery.
The motor runs from the battery, but the battery is charged by the rider. The creator never said that the bike has to be plugged in in the interview. Maybe he uses Bedini charging circuit in that that uses high frequency high voltage DC pulses to charge the battery. Pulsed DC is also known as 'cold electricity' because it doesn't produce any heat in the wires. Also, over unity effects have been observed (by people like Konstain Meyel, Eric Dollard, Tesla, etc.) MUCH is out there.
Nothing can be more than 100%.
If it becomes "more than 100%" than new factor is the new 100%.
As for energy, nothing creates more energy than it uses to produce that energy.
You think you are a smart guy. Maybe you are, but that doesn't mean you get your own physics laws.
This idea was fucking amazing, but I 100% guarantee you it was stopped in the back room by Petrodollar fags. This needs to be remade immediately. It promotes health, and is self sufficient since you exercise to go where you want, and to charge it. The price was so high because it is greedy as shit. Such an invention should only cost a few thousand to make, but is meant to replace a vehicle, so it is priced at like 10x+ it's regular selling price.
The greed of humanity is the only thing holding the world back, this was revolutionary, but the money to be made realistically was very low, since it only appeals to the general public who can't really afford cars any more. It should have sold as it is, a really good Bicycle, and if it did, the world would have stopped using transportation by Oil, for the general public.
Time to make one of my own over the next few years, this is great.
IF NOT LESS..I mean what is it? A battery and a couple of gears!?
It would be a powerful electric engine with a lot of storage potential, lots of rotors and such, along with the engine being able to be charged while in use, of which the system would take quite a bit to create.
But after creation, the vehicle itself would take extremely little to create and mass produce. Remove a little bit off our stupidly high military production, and we could have a revolution in personal infrastructure.
I think that's exactly why it was hushed, because if this thing did get funded and mass produced so that it was cheaper, the oil economy would go down and those big corporate capitalist know that.... I wouldn't be surprised if these oil companies bribed the inventor so he'd shut up........ that's probably the reason why nobody hears about the water powered car
*****
This comment made my day, please don't delete it. I want others to see the low IQ talking trash for no reason.
It's a good idea because you can move motorcycle speed without spending hundreds of collars to drive it. It's clean energy with a simplistic design, and since everyone can ride a bike, it makes sense to make it into transportation.
The world is crumbling because of the reliance on fossil fuels to power all nations. Wars are more or less only fought to make money, and often enough, the way they want to make money is to control oil fields where they are fighting for.
Not to say there aren't wars other than this, but they are more like skirmishes or ethnic purges by religious fanatics outside of this.
Anyways, please no delete. Made my day. If you can't understand the info here, there is no helping you. Judging this by the language you used in your comment, I can expect this is the case.
To all the recent Comments regarding tech and price,
This clip is 8 years old. Since then batteries and drivetrain components have become way cheaper.
and most important, you can build a bike like this for much less but you won´t be allowed to use it.
Only speaking for germany, as the builder is german, you can expect another 6-digit-bill if you want to sell and register this kind of bike.
and btw, it sells for 13k€ now. very reasonable for a road legal 8kW build.
so don´t complain about a price from almost a decade ago....
I could buy a decent car for $10,000 and still have $34,000 left for gas to last for about 25 years. Not only that, I can drive the car anywhere and in any weather.
If pedaling supplied ALL the power necessary to maintain the charge in the battery, it would truly be amazing. But they didn't really cover that, did they?
+Fran Marzoa, Nothing is impossible only improbable based on the rules that man has made-up and has assumed are absolutely true.
wow $44K !
I would buy a 10K motorcycle and still have 34K for gas ... I'd probably invest some of that 34K to get a membership at the gym and peddle there as much as I want
If he could somehow get the price down to $500-1000, he could **change the world** with that machine. It's probably not even possible, but to make it accessible to average people would make all the difference in the world. He could singlehandedly change transportation in big cities. It would be an accomplishment of monumental proportions.
What about the one-legged men? Nobody ever thinks about the one-legged men,
E-pogo stick coming out soon.
Here in Boulder Colorado one legged people ride bicycles on road and even mountain biking on a regular basis. So that is a minor issue. I do understand you were joking..... :)
i like the bike:)..and yes i was joking
They have to double up - one with a right leg, one with a left.
universalsailor Straps. Just strap the foot to the peal and you can pull up when you aren't pushing down.
People please remember if you are going to ride ANY bicycle with a motor that is 48 volts or more, you must put a torque arm where the wheel attaches or a serious accident can occur if your bike spins out of your bike dropouts (the mouth that holds your wheels. Also, if mounting a motor on the front wheel, use a cromoly fork (look it up).
The idea of "successful" people buying your bike, may make you think that you have a market ... but ... finding a way to bring the cost down to be less than a small Honda motor scooter would put it where it could be purchased by the masses.
$44,000 is more than the average family car, its about a third of the cost of a new house ... so ... unless your just an elitist, you have not done your homework yet and figured how to make this something that will not just line your pockets or fill your Swiss account, but revolutionize how the world gets around.
There is no reason something like this should cost over a thousand dollars when brought on the market.
After watching this, I re-read the title as "Super fast bike could revolutionize fatality rates"
So, he put an electric motorcycle into a frame that looks like play-doh on a stick, and took all the convenience out of the electric motorcycle and replaced it with an incredibly annoying and pointless drive system. Then he charges 4x more than the equivalent electric motorcycle. Nothing revolutionary, just a waste of time and space.
did you ever drove one? i dont think so.
So basically it is a parallel-hybrid vehicle that uses the 'driver' to charge the battery.
However the point (AFAIK) of parallel-hybrids is that you can use a weaker/small engine to produce Input for later Output far greater than what it would normally be capable of. The reason this is a problem in this case is that the pedals are used to control (accelerate) the bike, so you can only charge it WHEN your are driving. The only way this could work is if you charged it in between uses.
This is better than the bike that had no pedals, but still $44,000? i rather walk, at least it's free...
I have to admit, the concept is very simple... I pretty sure more then one person who knows a thing or two about motors, gears, and physics will have thought up something similar to this as they bike up a good-sized hill, or around a country, etc. I am one of them. That being said, I am impressed! Thumbs up!
Yeah, that's an interesting idea, but full electric motorcycles only cost ~$8000, so how does adding 150 year old pedal technology add $36k?
Truly. The Ford model T was such a success because many people could afford it.
Give it a little time and some big company will make one that's a quarter the cost, half the weight, and twice the distance per charge. If you can acquire the batteries cheap enough while still being efficient batteries you could easily make one just like his that goes at least 100 miles per charge and costs between 5000-8000 although IDK if they would have to conform to motorcycle safety regulations but if so the price would probably be more likely around 10-12 thousand dollars.
This answers one of my main complaints with biking: I hate getting too hot. But if pedaling at something like a normal pace and effort produced a 50mph wind, I think overheating would be less of a problem.
44K you can buy a Chevy Volt ,a high end regular bike and a bike rack and still have money left over.
Why cant i favorite this more than once. AWESOME concept. WANT.
44.000 dollars bro u mad ? thats 2/3 of the money for a dodge charger hellcat
What a revolution. A motorized bicycle!! Oh but wait... it was invented tens of years ago : the motorcycle. Try again for the revoution...
$44,000 pshh i'd rather by a full electric CAR.
E-Bikes are brilliant even for youngsters and every person who has a go on mine wants one. It isn't hard to get one that can go 50 miles on a charge, but remember; for longer trips you can always take the car anyway. The bike is ideal for shorter trips. It's dead easy to go much faster than car speeds in towns and cities on an e-bike.
half motorcycle, half bicycle... aka a moped. :P
Most of the start-up money for these type of inventions are government grants for reducing our dependency on oil and promoting alternative transportation. Translation: these types of products can be sold for half the asking price and still make a sizable profit.
So, who is willing to spend $44,000 on a slow, electric motorcycle that you have to pedal like a bicycle?
I really like how you're taking a pedantic tone whilst simultaneously saying you're building a prototype... of something that already exists.
Don't no what to call it ? Last I checked it was one of many trademarked "Moped" bikes. And before try to correct me, "Kia" the same car company that partners with Hyundai produced a pedal bike with not only a petrol motor but a rudimentary electric pedal bike was also offered. Way back in the early seventies. The electric version never took off, as the battery technology was not very good. Plus you can buy a modern kit with a three phases motor with the lithium batteries that can be retrofitted to any bike for less than 500 us dollars from China. And it also has regenerative capabilities to recharge the batteries. Top speed in stock trim is 35mph. So I doubt many would be bought for 40k that's just bloody ridicules. "Note" I'm not a hater. I think what he made is certain cool but not at such an expense.
I built the equivalent of this for under 200 dollars.
$20- Old Puch street bycicle
$0- motor from electric wheelchair
$20- Weld a gear to said motor
$100- 2 brand new car batteries and battery charger
$40- Misc.
It works.
Buy a 40k bike. Ride it to the all natural vegan store. Lock it up with a 10$ chain and lock. Come back out and discover that you are walking home.
This bike would be revolutionary if it ever dropped to a more affordable price for the general public.
Great concept however, the price is just way to much.
40 thousand dollars hmmmm I could get a Harley that gets around 70mpg and a new car that gets around 40mpg...
Too much money but great start to something new to come.
its like a crank radio except on a large scale motor.
It's an extremely expensive MOPED. For that Kind of money I could buy a really nice crotch rocket.
$40k for a bike? Sorry, that will not revolutionize transportation. I could buy 20 mopeds for that price.
Problem with all these fast bikes is you tend to die easily
Does it blend?
Charges as much as a high class luxury vehicle LOL capitalism at its best. I thought wow heres a guy that is really trying to help out...but then they say you need $40,000 LOL I would rather buy a luxury vehicle than roll around that thing for $40k.
yeah he is in it to make money . he told you how to do it as well. could build it pretty cheap actually . peddling 2 wind generators most likely wired directly to a motor or converter first . motor can take more juice than the generators put out or he has a regulator top voltage or diode which is cheap and simple. it just lets so much juice go through no computers. he is making a mint . lol. I may try solar and a battery or 2 . run and electric small as possible motor . turn wind generators to a converter for the engine . connect it to a solar car conversion kit. talking to you just gave me a better idea . lol. like buying a house or farm it's easy to build on or up grade . they already made the straight lines you just go off of what they did . getting excited . he is robbing who ever buys it .
Mass production. Making one of something costs a lot more per unit than in bulk. Early adopters always pay a premium for new technology, but they are the investors that drive refinement, research and wider distribution.
I thought the Europeans hated evil profit and greedy capitalism. I guess not when THEY make the money. Kinda like entertainers.
Is that what you heard on Fox News?
surearrow
Well said, hahaha
surearrow 'the Europeans', because 700 million people from 50 countries all must share the same opinion on capitalism. but yes, you're so enlightened with your view of the world
Than I shall restate it more actually. The european educational system its governments, that teach and promote to their populations, hate evil profit and greedy capitalism. How's that?
Europe is fair profit and fair capitalism, in the US it is unfair profit and capitalism = communism.
So this bike is for rich people who really don't need to save money and not for poor people who needs a good helping hand.
Nice Job.
Not worth 44 thousand dollars get a bicycle
You're a bloody genius
worst electric bike ever
80k /bike is like a new bm? who would want a bike that inst a bike... it is a motorrised engine something soemthing bike... it aint really a bike! LIES
because you dont have to work hard to go fast. it takes half as much effort and saves the planet tremendously as it doesnt need any other power but man power.
Electric power designed to fail due to high cost .
High cost of materials to keep weight down so that electric power goes further ie carbon fibre ,magnesium etc not the cost of keeping it powered .
love the way he describes the bike: "it works as a bicycle, so you have to pedal to travel forwards...the quicker you pedal, the faster the motor goes"
that sounds like a bicycle to me
I've once driven a "bikecicle" similar to this one, it worked the same way, and I was able to drive 50 kph and it was much smaller and simpler, looked more like a bicicle
imagine if was available to anyone, that would be awesome
Since this video aired, the price has went down quite a bit, according to the price on their site. From what I see, it's 13,320EUR, or 18,361USD. The price is still high, but factoring in that this bike doesn't require gas to go, I think it's a good price, especially since the cost of gas in Europe is A LOT higher than in the US. So for the people in Europe, it makes total sense to purchase something like this.
I hope they drop the price down, more people should use this. I'd love to have one if it wasn't so damn expensive.
For that sort of money, you can get a very nice motor bike.
lmao,,yeah!
Price is insane. You can buy full electric scooters in the US with 40 mile range and 50 MPH top speed for < $8000.
The pedals in this thing are not attached to the drive train at all, they're just a funky art project throttle. I doubt you get enough power out of pedalling them all day to take you a half a mile.
An electric moped? Mighty slow revolution.
I can not conceive a build cost that could possibly warrant a $44,000 price tag. It's also hard to understand how energy can go from motion to electricity and back to motion with a net gain in output power. There's something we aren't being told, or this may be another miracle device that defies our currently known laws of physics.
What makes you think every person on the planet would even want one? Some of us like "real" speed,acceleration,comfort,good looks and can afford insurance and gas easily. If you have ever ridden an R6 you would forget about this toy for the rest of your life.
The Stealth Bomber for 10k goes where no motorcycle and dirt bikes can not go - they are e-bikes and can go on and off road where no motor vehicle is legal. It also has 20-50 mile range and top speeds way over 20mph legal limit in the USA.
Ok, lets see. A vehicle that does not require gas, emits no pollution, can be charged by sunlight, does not require registration or inspection, no insurance required. Does a Escalade make more sense?
No. An electric bike does not require any of that in the USA.
Under EU law, this is a motorcycle. To be an electrically assisted bicycle, the speed must be limited to under 20kph, weight is restricted, the motor is limited to about 200-250Watts [depending on local legislation] and you must pedal to accelerate. As a motorcycle, you must register it, display a plate, be insured and wear an approved helmet. You could get a very nice Yaris hybrid for that sort of money.
The voice over for the guy, including his appearance, gives him an air of Hipsterism.
"Oh yeah you WOULD say it's a motor bike, but I wouldn't expect YOU to know anything about why it's the most brilliant thing anyone has ever invented." *tosses hair*
The way he is pedaling, appears that he is putting in a great deal of effort to move that speed. I cycle a lot under my own power and keep up with traffic no problem. That's all it appears to be to me. It may just charge the battery only at speeds lower than 10 mph and assist you as you go faster, making upper 30's much easier to sustain for longer periods of time. With the great strides in battery making I can see this being quite a nice bicycle if it doesn't get too cumbersome.
Extremely awesome invention. Driving that in the city like he's doing would appear to me to be suicidal.
I take it the pedals are to satisfy some out-moded regulations. Otherwise they serve no purpose other than to add weight and complication. If I remember correctly, motor cars used in London in the early days had to carry a whip, for a similar reason.
Wow, and pedalling even charges up the battery of this battery-powered bike. I've got something similar without a battery.
Half-bicycle, half-motorbike, so that would be a moped then.
Before anyone screams, moped not scooter, theres a difference, moped's have pedals to assist them mostly used when starting or pulling away.
I know this technology is old, but its uses are modern. This is badass..!
This would save me from spending money just to go shopping in town!
It's Called E-Assist it's available on many electric hybrid bicycles.
You inveted the motor-bike! Awesome!
Best Electric Bike Ever!
the folks that can afford this would definitely prefer to drive.
I remember back in 95 a Chinese company launched motor cycles in Pakistan which were petrol powered, but also included pedals in case you run out of fuel, despite that they didn't cost more than normal motor cycle, they quickly flopped because company was unknown to market and the added benefit of pedals didn't make any improvement as it was tedious and hard to pedal the bike and 44000$ is lot of money when you can get the normal (decent) bicycle for 70$ and motor bike for 700$ with running cost of 0.05$ per km, lets see if they are mass produced and price gets in sensible range
This video was uploaded nearly 6 years ago. Surely the price could've dropped or the technology could have improved significantly by now. Where is it?
IF you could incorporate this technology into a car where you could seat at least 2 people, this would fly
I would ride and buy this.... If it didn't cost this much!!!
Get version 2 on kickstarter!!
in the philippines the price tag for a E- bikes range from $232 to $ 342...40kph to 60 kph...
In the UK, Electric Assisted cycles are motor limited to 15mph. If the motor powers at faster speeds its a motorcycle, needing type approval testing, registration tax insurance.& a bike driving licence & helmet, & thats probably a good thing.. The only real use of the peddling is to keep the rider warm. . Perhaps germany is different?
Wow. Blacktrail really defeated this thingamajig at price department.
This guy is "riding" like a maniac. You wouldn't last 5 minutes riding like that in the US. You would be roadkill!!
$40,000!!!! :O That's about what i paid for my Mercedes o.O, I Love it but the price is ridiculous, But props to him if he does sell this because I'm sure it only cost about $1,000-$5,000 to make so his profit potential is insane.
obviously.
i didnt say that with pedals he extends his range endlessly.
he just adds just a bit more
it would be smart if it has variable gearing between the pedals and the generator, so for example someone who has no strong legs can go with light gearing (and of course, less charging) and someone who is fit and strong can use a heavy gearing and add more charge to the battery.
in Italy we had this since the 60's it's the Piaggio Ciao
Interesting idea. Though charging by pedaling won't get you far. A person is going to only generate 100watts or so, where as the bike is going to need 1000-5000+ watts to move the motorcycle. This is more like zero calorie ice cream, no guilt, rather than a transportation revolution. A new take on a pretty old idea. They had go-peds back in the day. Scooters that had to be pedaled to take off, so that the rider was providing that starting energy to get the scooter moving and to start the motor up which shut off every time you stopped. They were great on gas. All and all a very cool implementation.
wow, amazing! cheap and efficient travel for the wealthiest people! they need it MOST, after all.
And to offer an interesting concept, much more complicated, gentlemen opponents
A NEW IMPROVED VERSION OF A MOPED
Thats as cool as the Portland Uni-Electri-cycle....Good luck!!!
Interesting setup several months ago I had a dream (while sleeping) that my Chevy pickup had the same pedal system in it to make it go
It might actually incorporate your pedaling power into the drivetrain, after all, humans can easily propel themselves to 15-20mph with a good bicycle, so you could add to that with a motor and get up even higher. If it doesn't, it should.
2- stroke 100 mpg which is pretty good and you goes speeds of 30 to 40 mph which is good (on a bicycle)with price of gas one gal is what i use in a month