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This is kewl yet…
Training wheels are cheap, and they work.
Freakin’ awesome! Now, even right-wingers can learn to bike… Next, someone will come up with something to make them realize that god(s), demons and ghosts belong to the same category as the tooth fairy and Santa Claus… The evolution of a right-wingers… an area of research all by itself.
I figure this could of been done WITHOUT batteries..
Startup would be slow, but a centrifugal spinning internal Wheel would have been cool..
Thats all well and good, but they flip over the handlebars as soon as they try to turn their first corner and the centrifugal force kicks in.
Awesome!
ditto #1’s comment. That’s cool, but it’s basically an over-designed replacement for training wheels. More for wealthy and geeky dads than for the kids.
Funny, when I was learning to ride a bike it was my not wanting to fall over that made me learn how to ride.
Great, a wheel that fights back against whatever you want to do. And if you learn to bike using this thing, the moment you get on a regular bike you will overcompensate and drive right into the path of a speeding bis.
What the hell is a speeding bis?
Training wheels can be had for less than ten bucks. I wonder what this wonder wheel will cost?
Gyroscopic action appears to have little to do with bicycles.
http://tinyurl.com/non-gyroscopic-bike
I might be a little smarter today if they had had this when I was young.
I’ll never forget that first ride 🙂
Hat tip to hhopper. Nice find.
Pretty neat idea. I wonder what it’s like riding a bike with this.
Seems to me it would mostly stabilize the bike and not effect the steering much. Looks like the gyro action helps keep the wheel perpendicular to the ground rather than keeping the wheel from pivoting. I guess we would need to take a spin to know how it really feels.
And didn’t she say I’m the video that you would incrementally slow down the gyro for the kid over time as they learn how to ride? So it’s not like the kid all of a sudden is going to ride in front of a “bis”.
‘Counter steer’ just like on a motorcycle…
You turn the handle bar to the left to tilt over the moto to turn right…
really!
#9: hhopper
“What the hell is a speeding bis?”
He obviously meant to type ‘bris’. Any boy who runs into one of those will absolutely never make the same mistake again.
What happened to just increasing the angle of the training wheels as they get better, so that they can ‘fall back’ on to them so they dont eat shit and fall off, but still ride ‘without’ them as well.
Cheaper but this is pretty cool.