Strange Bike

[moribundman]

I saw this Y-frame full suspension bike at a SF car exhibit last week. There was no information on the bike and its electric assist drive, but it appeared to be a Chinese Shenzhen brand bike:

 

[Papa Bear]

I prefer the bikes with the 650cc assist....

 

[rpn453]

Interesting, but the electric assist seems very silly to me.

 

[moribundman]

Depends on where you ride your bike...

click me

 

[Papa Bear]

Access forbidden!

 

[moribundman]

My ursine fellow from the cold north, imagine a picture of a really steep hill in San Francisco. Some people can't walk those hills.

Russian Hill

 

[Papa Bear]

Yeah, Mori, that looks like a 650cc hill !!
Went to S.F in '69 to see what was goin' down..turned out it was me !!?? I can hear the Animals singing in my head..

 

[moribundman]

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I can hear the Animals singing in my head..

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Could be an allergic reaction.

 

[wavinwayne]

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My ursine fellow from the cold north, imagine a picture of a really steep hill in San Francisco. Some people can't walk those hills.

Russian Hill

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That hill looks like what we do for warm-up here.

 

[moribundman]

Then you are probably going in the wrong direction!

 

[huffmuds9320]

I wonder how much extra weight the motor and the batteries add to the bike. I've seen a few times some people attach this gas motor to their bike. For gas motors you just go fill up again. If you ran out of juice then recharging batteries will take a while. Imagine running out of juice half way up the hill, thats fun.

 

[moribundman]

I don't think this bike is meant to be optimal or even practical under normal riding conditions, but that it is rather a demonstration of what can be done in a fairly compact package.