YikeBike - battery powered folding bike

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another_dave_b

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Quote below from the Mail
We're not trying to compete with traditional bikes,' says Grant. 'We aimed to produce an electric bike that was portable, lightweight, compact, practical and fun.

'We wanted something you could ride to the bus stop in the morning, take to the office and charge up under your desk.

'The simplest choice would be a unicycle but they're really difficult to ride. So we went back to the future and came up with the penny farthing.

'The main difference is that the original penny-farthing was so tall, if you fell off from that height, you could die. The YikeBike is smaller, simpler, safer, faster and lighter.

'In all the time we've been teaching people to ride it, we've never had anyone hit the dirt.'

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I can see the appeal, but £3k each :eek:
 
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I can see the appeal, but £3k each :eek:

A lot of these battery bikes are pricey, but someone must be buying them.

Cycle Heaven are offering the Gazelle Innergy @ £2k, and the YikeBike is a folder too. That said, this is way over my toybox budget :sad:
 

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'We wanted something you could ride to the bus stop in the morning"

For *$@# sake, are people really so lazy that they cant walk to the bus stop? I'd understand if it was developed for the elderly or the disabled but it's evidently not.
 
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