Meet the Yike, a super light, teensy weensy electric bike
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Lemon Eddy
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I reckon it'd look awesome with carbon forks and aero bars
Splendidly played, sir.
Lemon Eddy
Disliked by dwyer
By your logic, I should judge the suitability of cars by Formula 1. I take it you agree then that cars are only useful if you have the reactions of a fighter pilot and are prepared to wear flameproof overalls?
Biglittlefish
Active Member
I guess I'm alone in think it's good. Lame advert and all but so what. If it could get me to work with out the nightmare of the tube or the sweating like a cuntness of a real bike then I'd have one. (Assuming a few others did too so I didn't look like a nob)
That bike is just poop.
If you took one hand of the bars your screwed. Its so poo & its beyond understanding that any one would give $100 just register an interest in ever owning a piece of utter useless brittle crap.
Imagining trying to ride that thing on any open road with out feeling so vunarable to the flow of heavy traffic.
I hate the idea of people trying this useless gadget out & getting into all sorts of disastorous situations.. Hoodwinked into beleiving they are improving the enviroment with this cack.
Oh i want to smash it to pieces before any poor sod buys one.
If you took one hand of the bars your screwed. Its so poo & its beyond understanding that any one would give $100 just register an interest in ever owning a piece of utter useless brittle crap.
Imagining trying to ride that thing on any open road with out feeling so vunarable to the flow of heavy traffic.
I hate the idea of people trying this useless gadget out & getting into all sorts of disastorous situations.. Hoodwinked into beleiving they are improving the enviroment with this cack.
Oh i want to smash it to pieces before any poor sod buys one.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Looks to be as misguided in principle as the C5.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
because displaced environmental damage is what less enviromentally damaging... somethings got to produce the electricity...
make it solar powered with a solar recharger and lose the carbon fiber and the cellulose based resin toxins and you'd be right...
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I'm not even a cyclist, but 9km? Sod that. A 9km round trip, I'd walk. It's not even particularly fast and you can't carry shit on it.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Hemp-based composites ?
Solar would be a tall order though ...
Small electric vehicles per se surely have to be a decent approach - it's when you try to base them on conventional cars that the advantages of electric power start draining away fast.
There would have to be a cultural shift away from people thinking of high speeds in town and therefore having to be strapped inside a tonne of armour...
This one is unbelievably shit though - as useful as a spacehopper and destined to be used as much.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Struggling to work out how it even moves. Is the big wheel basically driven by a smaller one concealed within the body of the thing?
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
Walkers aren't the target market, drivers are. And one would imagine that you'd have the option of recharging at your destination seeing as the recharge time is so low.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Batteries infamously get crapper and crapper the more you use them too. If it started out at 9k per charge, god knows what it'd be like after half a year...
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Now, an electric spacehopper though - fuck yes.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
Just because you are (mainly) all a bunch of whingers...
I like it!
I want to like it but there's lots of bad features with none of the good bits about being a bike.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ps-electric-penny-farthing-travels-13mph.html
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Hemp-based composites ?
Solar would be a tall order though ...
Small electric vehicles per se surely have to be a decent approach - it's when you try to base them on conventional cars that the advantages of electric power start draining away fast.
There would have to be a cultural shift away from people thinking of high speeds in town and therefore having to be strapped inside a tonne of armour...
This one is unbelievably shit though - as useful as a spacehopper and destined to be used as much.
Thing is it has to be generated some how I guess on a bike you'd use the rotation of the wheels and peddle power to charge up the battery on the fly like the wind up torch. But other than this KERS or solar would be the only clean way of obtaining electricity for it otherwise it's still dirty power just not localised dirty power.
The Resin which is used to bond the Carbon fiber (or indeed the hemp fiber would still be oil based/solvents and this would still be dirty, in the same way that a totally electrical car is still dirty in terms of the carbon cost of the part manuifacture...
I think we don't need more ways to squander resources and make more average carbon foot print vehicles... It's the prias argument really....
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Three thousand pounds??
Three thousand pounds??
That's 60% of a Segway!
This yike bike has got me so wound up.
In an ideal world with soft flat tarmac roads. Laid like butter across the globe interconnecting eveyone in a big tree hugging love bubble, with no hate & only love.
That there electric piece of enviromental design erotica would be the orgasm every eco dreamer was searching for.
In this world though its just an embarassment to human evolution. No matter how much you spend on glossy adverts, slick videos & clever marketing, the overall thought of using that around a urban enviroment of todays standard just scares the living daylights out of me..
I want to see extreme yikebiking. I want a rugged road side bomb proof version. I want to know that if i spend £3000 on a bike , it wont break & crack on the first hard knock.
In an ideal world with soft flat tarmac roads. Laid like butter across the globe interconnecting eveyone in a big tree hugging love bubble, with no hate & only love.
That there electric piece of enviromental design erotica would be the orgasm every eco dreamer was searching for.
In this world though its just an embarassment to human evolution. No matter how much you spend on glossy adverts, slick videos & clever marketing, the overall thought of using that around a urban enviroment of todays standard just scares the living daylights out of me..
I want to see extreme yikebiking. I want a rugged road side bomb proof version. I want to know that if i spend £3000 on a bike , it wont break & crack on the first hard knock.
likesfish
You can't park here sir
http://www.greencarsite.co.uk/GREENCARS/g2000r.htm
considering for a grand less you can get a full size electric moped Why THE FUCK WOULD YOU BUY THIS DANGEROUS PIECE OF TAT.
for a grand you could get the top qualitly brompton does all the yike can do probably faster better made and just as fast with less chance of falling off and no arsing about trying to charge it
considering for a grand less you can get a full size electric moped Why THE FUCK WOULD YOU BUY THIS DANGEROUS PIECE OF TAT.
for a grand you could get the top qualitly brompton does all the yike can do probably faster better made and just as fast with less chance of falling off and no arsing about trying to charge it
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
For 100% of the idiocy. Bargain.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
likesfish
You can't park here sir
http://www.firebox.com/product/2166/Ego-Electric-Street-Scoota
under a grand £300 off at the moment no Idea if there any good though
under a grand £300 off at the moment no Idea if there any good though
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