German Electric Bike

toybhoy
toybhoy Posts: 112
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
Say.... these electric bikes seems to be improving! :D

Wouldn't mind having a wee go at this to be honest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8147104.stm

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  • Eau Rouge
    Eau Rouge Posts: 1,118
    Wouldn't that be legally classed as a motorbike in ths country, and rightly so?
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Eau Rouge wrote:
    Wouldn't that be legally classed as a motorbike in ths country, and rightly so?

    yup probably flatten the battery in no time as well.
  • _Brun_
    _Brun_ Posts: 1,740
    Saw this earlier on. From what I could work out the pedals contribute nothing to powering the bike. Spinning faster appears to be equivalent to twisting the throttle on a conventional bike.

    The reporter, unsurprisingly, didn't seem to get this at all.
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I was going to say - "Stefan Gulas has developed a system that amplifies the effort you put in by a factor of 50, meaning you can accelerate quickly and maintain high speeds with very little effort." - wouldn't this revolutionise transport as we know it? as well as the laws of thermodynamics?
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Perhaps he should get together with the boys from Steorn!

    :lol:
  • Mr Sworld
    Mr Sworld Posts: 703
    biondino wrote:
    - wouldn't this revolutionise transport as we know it? as well as the laws of thermodynamics?

    To quote Homer Simpson after Lisa invents a perpetual motion machine 'Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of Thermodynamics!'
  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    biondino wrote:
    I was going to say - "Stefan Gulas has developed a system that amplifies the effort you put in by a factor of 50, meaning you can accelerate quickly and maintain high speeds with very little effort." - wouldn't this revolutionise transport as we know it? as well as the laws of thermodynamics?

    Indeed, I wondered that.
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    StuAff wrote:
    biondino wrote:
    I was going to say - "Stefan Gulas has developed a system that amplifies the effort you put in by a factor of 50, meaning you can accelerate quickly and maintain high speeds with very little effort." - wouldn't this revolutionise transport as we know it? as well as the laws of thermodynamics?

    Indeed, I wondered that.
    Its got a battery and a motor - the throttle is controlled by pedaling. What's the mystery? Its like saying that a car is thermodynamically impossible because your ankle movement is converted into 100's of horsepower. :roll:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    The mystery is the wide-eyed "omg" tone of the writer who doesn't actually seem to have realised there's an engine!
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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    biondino wrote:
    The mystery is the wide-eyed "omg" tone of the writer who doesn't actually seem to have realised there's an engine!
    Oh well. He's working for the BBC, where the minimum wage seems to be about £50k, plus expenses, so he'll be okay despite being a science writer with no understanding of science whatsoever.
  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    God, this place is full of cynics.


    and every one of them has just said "Pragmatist!" :wink:
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  • jinnan_tonnix
    jinnan_tonnix Posts: 78
    Well, I would LOVE a go on this.

    Anyone who says they wouldn't should check their underpants for flames.

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