Tag: bike
Prodrive introduce £3495 Hummingbird, world’s lightest foldable bike
Cycle to the beat with Xceon ACOUZTIC bike light/ MP3 player combo
Letting you cycle and listen to your favourite tunes without fear of getting your headphones caught among the wheels or missing ambient noises crucial to staying safe whilst peddaling away is the new ACOUZTIC bike light and speaker from…
VIDEO – GoCycle: riding about town and chatting with its inventor
What do you do when you stop engineering sports cars for McLaren? You turn your hand to revolutionising the humble bicycle, that's what! Anna from Tech Digest sister-site Shiny Shiny had a chat with Richard Thorpe, creator of the…
The Zoom Bicycles Jet Stealth 80cc Bicycle Engine Kit, for weak-limbed environmentalists
If you’ve ever been caught out on your bike, riding into the wind, up a slight hill, almost in tears at how hard it is and WISHING with all your might that someone would invent a little engine to help you out at times like this, you’re in luck – here’s a little engine to help you out at times like that.
The Zoom Bicycles DIY engine enhancement kits come with anything from a 49cc to an 80cc engine to pop onto your bike yourself and eliminate all that tiresome pedalling, but the catch is the weight – the motor adds around 19lbs (8.6 kilos to you Euro-people) to the weight of your bike…
Leading Expert: Shimano Di2 electronic gears are "super nice"
One sure-fire way to come up with a new idea for an invention is to simply add “electric” to the name of a product that already exists as after all, if something is electronic it is automatically better than its predecessor. Take the electric toothbrush, for example, or even the electric chair – chairs couldn’t kill anyone until someone had the bright idea of putting electricity inside them.
It’s with this mantra that Shimano have improved upon the humble bicycle, by coming with with an electronic gears system that they reckon will “improve performance” and “reduce maintenance”…
Fatbottomed girls will be riding today, on their E-V Sunny solar-powered bicycles
A solar powered bike? Huh? Am I missing something here? Bicycles are already green enough, and I’m sure the exercise is better than nothing? I’m confused.com here!
A very strange man by the name of Peter Sandler, who hails from Canada (no jokes), has invented the ‘E-V Sunny Bicycle’, which is 100% solar-powered. As you can see, solar panels have been built into the wheels, which charge the batteries, powering the 500 watt motor to get to speeds of 19mph…
Thank god the Dutch have invented the WheelSurf, now we can all look like hamsters
It’s just not fair. Not only does the Netherlands have the world’s highest standards of living, beautiful scenery, and amazingly friendly and gorgeous Nordics, but they also get this incredibly cool WheelSurf. Queue flight sales to the Netherlands rising by 300% after this post is published.
Looking akin to a human hamster wheel, the $6,900 ‘mobile circle’ is powered by a gas Honda engine which can reach speeds of more than 18mph. According to Slippery Brick…
Triketek X2 Arrow "cruising trike"
Mid-life crisis time? Already bought a 57″ TV, dumped the wife for your son’s girlfriend and are considering relocating to a flat in Hoxton?
Then lunatic vehicle maker TRIKEtec has just the thing to ferry you at great speed between hair replacement surgery and the gym.
Despite looking like a death trap…
The Ergo Bike Premium 8i exercise bike better be worth the cash
This Ergo Bike Premium 8i exercise bike is all well and good in theory, but we all know that after a week’s enthusiastic cycling in front of The Family Guy and Scrubs reruns, it’ll start to gather dust in the corner, until it’s relocated to the back garden when it’ll be glanced at, considered, and then passed over for a plate of pasta…
Man makes potential death trap out of shopping trolley and bicycle
Seconds after this photo was taken did he (a) go over the handlebars and into the path of an oncoming car, (b) go over the handlebars and into the path of an oncoming lorry, or (c) go over the handlebars and into the path of an oncoming bus?
We’ll never know. We can recreate it, though…
