When Is A Motorcycle Not A Motorcycle??

[crokett]

When it is an Ecomobile:

http://www.wimp.com/ecomobiletests/

Neat concept. They don't say but I wonder what the MPG on one would be. I could see it working as my almost-daily driver.

[JSUPreston]

http://eco.peraves.ch/standarde.htm


Looks like about 55MPG. The thing weighs about 1400 pounds. Not as good as a regular bike, but I do like the ide of being out of the weather and having a little bit of structure around me.

[pelligrini]

Not going to haul much wood or new tool purchases.

[cgallery]

Looks neat. Still no good for snow/ice, though. So for our part of the country, they still couldn't get year-round use. Although in parts of the country where you can ride a bike year-round, I can see the advantage.

[Shep]

I remember these things coming out abotu 10 years ago. I guess they're still catching on, or maybe that was a prototype I saw back then. Cool idea.

[Richard in Smithville]

So do the out rigger wheels work automatically or manually?

[LinuxRandal]

I believe the outrigger wheels are automatic. I always wondered if they have a manual backup. I also wondered how this will be affected by helmet laws, just as the 3 wheeled, electric motorcycle (aero?) is. (in SOME states, enclosed bikes no helmets are needed)


I think that was from an EARLY Top Gear.

[Norm in Fujino]

I like the way the video ends just as he says "fifty-thousand pounds"

[Pappy]

Add this to the list of vehicles that are too small for me to get closed up in. Cars won't 'see' them and I don't see the survival rate in a highway speed accident being very good.

[Kristofor]

I don't know... Sure it's not going to be anywhere near as good as a full sized car, but it seems like a fair percentage of fatal accidents on a motorcycle could be walk-away or injury accidents on this thing. With a bit of structure around you and a seat belt to keep you from flopping like a rag-doll down the freeway you have to rely less on a lucky bounce/slide ...

[herb fellows]

Well, you'd probably get a lot less 'trouser burn', in an accident, and it does keep the bugs out of your teeth and it prevents you from living under bridges like a troll when it starts to pour.
On the other hand, IT'S $50,000!

[LinuxRandal]

Well, you'd probably get a lot less 'trouser burn', in an accident, and it does keep the bugs out of your teeth and it prevents you from living under bridges like a troll when it starts to pour.
On the other hand, IT'S $50,000!

No, it was in pounds. Currency rates vary, so it is more then that.

[Norm in Fujino]

No, it was in pounds. Currency rates vary, so it is more then that.

at today's rates, it's USD $78,700.73

[LCHIEN]

at today's rates, it's USD $78,700.73

that's amazing. How many do you think they'll sell at that price?

Clever idea those training wheels, but they look like an accident waiting to happen in close urban traffic.