Here is an intriguing new device: Superpedestrian - The Copenhagen Wheel.
The red device on the rear wheel is a power supply.
My personal question is "How much does it help me in trying to go up a hill?" e.g. the hill to my house...from say NE 65th Street (Whole Foods) to Cloud City Coffee in Maple Leaf i.e. going up Roosevelt. Hardly a huge hill but enough to notice.
I am sure that a technologist would be able to figure out the "foot pounds" (or whatever) needed to cycle up a slope on my own effort and then how much supplementary power needed (and supplied, one hopes) by the Copenhagen Wheel to make me feel as if I was riding level. And that will be the measure in the real world of consumers: "perceived effort" with "riding level" the ideal.
What a great unseen device! Copenhagen is undoubtedly the city of bicycles, therefore the best inventions are also created there. It would be nice to get more information about it as well.
Posted by: Naujininkai | Jan 28, 2014 at 01:16 AM