Bigbrother Iswatchingu
Nice product but much too expensive
bergamot69
Sounds very well thought out- especially the adaptable braking and the ability to lean into corners.
However, I would imagine that on British potholed streets, with it's sunken and damaged drainhole covers, that it would suffer from 'bump-steer'- especially given that room given to cyclists by other motorists on our crowded roads isn't a lot (tuck those elbows in!), and bikes are usually relegated to the worst maintained section of the road, next to the curb (when not occupied by illegally parked cars).
Jim Sadler
The product seems just fine but the price is absurd. Keep in mind that 90% of the public ride department store bikes that usually sell for under $150 and often under $100. To get these into public use that $100 price mark might be the one to meet. As more people use bikes in the US to ward off gasoline expenses there is a tendency for companies to want to offer expensive products. That will not get the job done at all. the electric bike industry suffers the same syndrome. Put a top notch $200 electric bike on the market and you will sell them so fast you won't be able to meet demand. Put a $6,000 electric bike on the market and you just won't sell enough to stay in business.
Roger Chan
Now that I am an amputee I need to adapt my bicycle and my motorcycle to trikes. can you all make a front end kit for motorcycles?
Slowburn
Why would you want three wheels for that piddling bit of cargo?
Walt Stawicki
hard to sus the pix but it seems there is no sprung suspension on that irs front end. what happens with ny 40 kg toolbox for example.....also why the expensive hydraulic breaking. does it require same for 2 wheel mode (fabulosly absurd) or can it be hooked to front cable...and how would that work per adjustment. of which...with 2 front brake,s there is a new learning curve for ones muscle memory..... on top all of that...one is still given marginally increase cargo space and that all way up front. i wonder about cornering slip in the wet ( more bew nemory for reflexes).
OwkayeGo
This is a bad idea in so many ways I cannot begin to fathom why they did what they did.
First of all, utility bikes are cheap so it makes more sense to just buy a complete 3-wheel bike than to screw around retrofitting this contraption onto your existing bike. I would much rather own my real bike and a separate three wheeler if I actually needed one.
Second, what's the point of the complication with the hydraulic brakes and tilting front end? These 'features' just add to the cost and make the whole thing more prohibitively expensive ... and it's not like you're going to be racing and actually need more stable cornering when you're hauling a load of whatever around with you.
Third, why not give it a decent suspension? It's going to be far less maneuverable than a two-wheeler, so it's going to need a great front suspension in order to deal with the many more potholes and bumps it's going to hit when it cannot swerve around them.
It actually seems like the company was looking for a problem to solve, and they couldn't find a real problem so they 'invented' one that they could solve in an innovative way. And while I applaud innovation, sometimes it is just a waste of time.
If they created a basic no-frills 3 wheeler instead of this add-on to an exiting bike, and if they hit at $149 or $199 retail price point, they might have something ... but I do not think this concept has much of a chance in the real world.
pmshah
What kind of speed does one envisage when negotiating turns with this contraption that it needs tilting mechanism ? One certainly is not going racing with it !
We have had 3 wheeled bicycles called cycle-rickshaws for ages. They even transport humans ! In fact I read an article on it being adopted on one of UK universities campus. With a 3 or 5 gear contraption it can easily handle heavy loads.
So what else is new?
Hetero Togram
so its a way to make a regular bike into a christania-bike? seems smart.
Peekaboo Weber
I think this would be a good idea if: it cost less, it attached to the back of the bike instead of the front, and it cost less. I'm not about to pay $600 of my hard earned dollars to attach this to the front of my bike, making me unable to take the bus with it, and afraid of how it might limit my vision. otherwise, good idea.