Rapture eBike

[cougie uk]

Hard for me to use a bike without a stand. Have mounted one on every bike I bought. I don't care what other road cyclists think about it. "Well the extra weight"

Never needed one on any of my bikes. I think the hire bikes I've used have them though.
Most hire bikes you need to leave them at the docking station so a kickstand might not be essential.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

Sheffield seems like a great place to set up to me.

It is if you really need to find somewhere run by some exceptionally dumb/naive/corrupt politicians that are willing to sanction wasting substantial amounts of taxpayers money on this sort of pie in the sky nonsense.
You only have to take one look at the thing to see that it wasn't designed by anyone who has ever ridden a normal bike regularly.
None of it has been thought out. if you want to exchange batteries, then who owns them? The rider, or some central energy scheme you have to subscribe to? I wouldn't buy an expensive battery with an e-bike myself, then swap it mid-ride for an unknown condition and quite likely knackered shite one at a charging station! It would provide an ideal scamming opportunity for anyone with a duff reduced capacity battery to launder it into the exchange scheme and hopefully get a better one back - which they could then keep hold of until it, in turn, became capacity-depleted. Either there would soon be a whole lot of shite batteries circulating around, or someone would have to test them and replace the substandard ones with new replacements. Who would be footing the bill for this? The whole idea is utterly bonkers.

 

[DRM]

I think the name is spelled incorrectly ClownCruiser seems more apt, the thing looks like it was designed by someone who has never seen a bicycle, but has had one described to them over the phone, there's a good reason why, when the safety bicycle was designed, the basic design principles of it haven't changed, it simply works well and efficiently, yes we have more gears, frames made from various materials, but, the thing just works, you've only got to read Gironimo, by Tim Moore who rode the course of the 1914 Giro D'Italia on a 100 year old bike, to tell you that, perhaps the designer was away from college/uni when they had the K.I.S.S, and, If it's not broken, don't fix it lessons.
I predict we will never, ever see a real ClownCruiser anywhere, it's the musings of an idiot.

 

[DRM]

It is if you really need to find somewhere run by some exceptionally dumb/naive/corrupt politicians that are willing to sanction wasting substantial amounts of taxpayers money on this sort of pie in the sky nonsense.
You only have to take one look at the thing to see that it wasn't designed by anyone who has ever ridden a normal bike regularly.
None of it has been thought out. if you want to exchange batteries, then who owns them? The rider, or some central energy scheme you have to subscribe to? I wouldn't buy an expensive battery with an e-bike myself, then swap it mid-ride for an unknown condition and quite likely knackered shite one at a charging station! It would provide an ideal scamming opportunity for anyone with a duff reduced capacity battery to launder it into the exchange scheme and hopefully get a better one back - which they could then keep hold of until it, in turn, became capacity-depleted. Either there would soon be a whole lot of shite batteries circulating around, or someone would have to test them and replace the substandard ones with new replacements. Who would be footing the bill for this? The whole idea is utterly bonkers.

I agree wholeheartedly with the above, it's a stupid design, stupid idea thats badly thought out, you would have thought Sheffield Council would have seen through this nonsense

 

[DRM]

Good afternoon,

Does the educational and commercial experience of the guy in charge https://uk.linkedin.com/in/adebola-adeleye-29404b98 make you wonder if this is just a bit of a laugh at the tax payer's/investor's expense?

Although it does look wonderful, I wasn't sure about how much is real or mock up.

Then I started to wonder about practical things like where you put any luggage or mount a rear mudguard so that you can use it in the rain.

Even if when you pedal do you legs rub against the frame as the frame is almost as wide as the saddle?

If you look at the position of the saddle in relation to the bottom bracket it looks like a bike not really intended to be pedalled at all.

If you then look at the pedals in relation to the wheels it is starting to look very long.

I couldn't work out if it had gears for the pedal part of the drive system as it has a rear hub motor.

The web page has 4 bullet points about the bike, two of which are about your mobile phone.

Is it really a small electric motor bike in all but name and hoping for a law change?

Yes, I am being negative again.

Bye

Ian

You're not being negative, just honest, it'll never sell, it's the answer to a problem nobody has.