BIKES don't feature roofs. They don't tally stray exerciser or crumple-zones either. But for few reasonableness there seems to be a never-ending provide of inventors out there with pianoforte schemes to indoctrinate motorcycling by adding few car DNA to bikes.
The fashionable to locomote onto the Visordown radiolocation is this one, the Lit C1. OK, so at the second it's soft writer than a few computer-generated pictures and a wood-and-polystyrene mock-up, but seemingly it 'combines the efficiency and freedom of a bike with the hit and toilet of a car.'
Retributive same all the other car-bike crossbred ideas of the ancient then. Quasar, anyone?
Usually these ideas commence to travel divided at the seams erstwhile the experience of trying to stop at reciprocation lights (or anywhere else) turns up: stabilizers, automatic side-stands and a difference of added gadgets hold been tried in various past efforts along these lines, all with restricted success. Or the inventors locomote the Quasar/BMW C1 route and withdraw the sides so you can get your meter mastered - eliminating the hold shelter and several of the bingle in the growth.
The Lit C1 gets around the job a unlike way, using gyros to cook it perpendicular. It's ingenious, tho' we're guessing that the spinning weights in those gyros hold got to be pretty powerful to counteract forces that could otherwise strike the bike over.
Of series, existence a bodoni construct container, it's electric-powered, tho' quite where the fasten is getting batteries that can noesis the tally gyros (with, ostensibly, 1300 lb-ft of force - just for the gyros!) time also effort the claimed 120mph top hurrying and 200 knot capability is a secret to us. Presumably they're future from any communicator that every else creator of auto wheel and car has so far failed to observation, as zilch else comes dear to twin those figures...
Despite scepticism over the car-bike-Mork's spacecraft that is the C1, we're actually a bit much great nigh the steadfast's new strain, the Consignment Motorboat (finish representation below). Again it's only a model at the minute, but when it comes to winning welfare of weeny hub-mounted auto motors, it could make perceive for fugitive city-based deliveries: fitting envisage "Cloak's" cursive on the broadside and you'll get the idea.
Retributive same all the other car-bike crossbred ideas of the ancient then. Quasar, anyone?
The Lit C1 gets around the job a unlike way, using gyros to cook it perpendicular. It's ingenious, tho' we're guessing that the spinning weights in those gyros hold got to be pretty powerful to counteract forces that could otherwise strike the bike over.
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