While working in the high-tech industry, she hadn’t ridden a bike for 10 years. Her company is making motorized bicycles for non-cyclists. “I believe my responsibility as a parent is to teach two life skills, swimming and bicycling,” said Nguyen. I love this stuff. Discovery News has details on a bike that could break 100 mph. The current human-powered bike speed record is at 82 mph and held by Sam Whittingham. This record will be challenged by Graeme Obree, who has broken speed records before. The forerunners to motorcycles as we know them today are quite simply bicycles fitted with a small engine. During the first decades of development those engines were steam powered and ineffectual but later the combustion engine took over and the rest, as March 8, 2015, 6:26 PM |It's called the ELF, a solar-powered bike-car hybrid that's turning up in cities across the country. Costing $5,500, the transportation requires no insurance or gasoline. Vicente Arenas took a test drive and talks about how the bike We first looked at the Copenhagen Wheel, a powered bicycle wheel with a self-contained motor and batteries, when it won the James Dyson Award back in 2010. It was developed by a team of students at MIT's SENSEable City Lab, a sort of combination think-tank You probably don't think of bicycles as speed demons, but Arnold Nearcher and François Gissy would beg to differ. They've respectively developed and raced a rocket-powered bike that just broke a world speed record for the vehicle class, hitting a brisk .
When it comes to commuting in China, the most popular alternative to a car (which many Chinese still cannot afford) or a subway, is the battery-powered electric bicycle, which retails for as little as a few hundred dollars. Slower than a car (they Mark Stewart turns quite a few heads as he zips through the streets on his neon green ELF bike. With each pedal, his feet take turns sticking out from the bottom while a gentle motor hums in the background. What he's driving looks like a cross between a Nokia unveiled on Thursday a bicycle-powered phone charger. The Nokia Bicycle Charger Kit, which can be attached to any bicycle, powers up from the pedaling motion of the bike's rider. A dynamo--the electricity generator--is powered by the front bicycle With its slightly elongated frame, thick tires, normal brakes and pedals, Francois Gissy's two-wheeler looks just like any other high-end customized bike. However look closer, and you will notice a modification like none other - rocket thrusters that are .
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