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[Closed] Victory over gravity

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Apologies if already done:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/11/ego-kits-declares-victory-over-nature-gravity-with-its-e-powere/


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 5:18 pm
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That's kind of cool I guess, but needs to get smaller and be integrated into the bike...


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 5:23 pm
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Seems pretty small to me. Why does it need to be smaller?


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 5:27 pm
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I beat the gravity thing years ago with a similar idea

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Posted : 11/01/2011 5:40 pm
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i'd like to see him climb that hill in a single camera shot......


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 5:45 pm
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how is putting a motor on a bike in anyway good or cool? Motorbikes are for doing that, if you can't MTFU then buy one of those


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:03 pm
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might help ton out?


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:06 pm
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Solving a problem that isnt there.


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:15 pm
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Not really a victory over gravity is it, without gravity he'd not even get up the hill.


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:18 pm
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He needs gravity to go back down.


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:20 pm
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Pointless.


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 6:27 pm
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For people struggling with fitness or injury that could be a winner... When I broke my hip, I wasn't actually riding but if I had been, it'd have been a very long layoff because of all the muscle damage from the surgery. A bit of assist could have got me riding pretty quick and building fitness etc faster (my range when I got on the bike after the injury was literally 2 miles of tarmac- so I could barely ride enough to build it back up)

Wouldn't use one otherwise but that's not to say it's useless... If I had the money to burn and it really works as promised then it could give access to trails and distances that aren't practical to me normally, which I can't see as a bad thing. And the drawbacks look relatively small. Other than the mocking and the enormous cash outlay of course

It's easy to sneer at it from a position of health and fitness.


 
Posted : 11/01/2011 7:15 pm