Yikes!

mingmong
mingmong Posts: 542
edited September 2009 in The bottom bracket
http://www.yikebike.com

Give me a brompton any day!!!

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    It must be named yike after what people say when they try to stop quickly and the contraption cunningly converts itself into a cyclist slingshot.
    Looking for a cycling buddy?
  • mingmong
    mingmong Posts: 542
    Like a pivot off a rat trap!
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I think the Daily Mail ran an article on it saying it was a "real alternative to the bicycle"

    ..at £3k I doubt it. :? Plus it isnt road legal in the UK iirc
  • fast as fupp
    fast as fupp Posts: 2,277
    not even if i was quadrispazzed on a lifeglug :shock:
    'dont forget lads, one evertonian is worth twenty kopites'
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I like how the first woman to see it can't help sniggering :)

    We mock these things now, but at some point someone will get it right and produce a cheap, efficient, lightweight transport device for the masses. And yes, I know the bicycle fits, but you know what I mean.
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  • STEFANOS4784
    STEFANOS4784 Posts: 4,109
    Isn't it powered by non humkan means? How could that be anything like "real alternative to the bicycle". Daily Mail idiots :roll:
    Unlessw i've missed something, in which case i'm the idiot, well i'm an idiot anyway but we all knew that 8)
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  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    I think this was the review (was a long time I read one though :oops: )

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... 13mph.html
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    So, James Martin has his moment in the Daily Mail and now this guy reviews this, this, this thing on the streets of London yet states in big letters that it isn't legal.

    Back in a minute, I'm just popping out to make an arrest...
  • mingmong
    mingmong Posts: 542
    It only goes for 20 mins.

    I never go after 20 mins - Cycling that is :oops: takes me that long to get the blood running :wink:
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    NapoleonD wrote:
    So, James Martin has his moment in the Daily Mail and now this guy reviews this, this, this thing on the streets of London yet states in big letters that it isn't legal.

    Back in a minute, I'm just popping out to make an arrest...

    Hahaha!! We should form a super-justice-league of cyclists! Get all you online cycle cops together :lol:
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    S H I T

    A few untruths, drivers don't tend to be that happy or wistful.
    I like the way you get tantalising glimpses of the thing swooping past.

    Gimme a sinclair C5 anyday, they were the future a long time ago... :D:D
  • downfader
    downfader Posts: 3,686
    dmclite wrote:
    S H I T

    A few untruths, drivers don't tend to be that happy or wistful.
    I like the way you get tantalising glimpses of the thing swooping past.

    Gimme a sinclair C5 anyday, they were the future a long time ago... :D:D

    ..and in a way with velomobiles they're still going. 8)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfsbR0RVV7c

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