Petrol-powered front wheel gets plug in ‘Popular Science’ mag
May 11th, 2006 by MikeVia: BikeBiz.com
The US RevoPower front wheel is a 25cc two-stroke rotating engine and gear assembly which fits inside a 26 inch bicycle wheel. It weighs 15 pounds, powers the bike to 20mph and gets around 240 miles per gallon. The company’s CEO said ‘While we did not start this business with the idea of changing the world, there is a real possibility that the Wheel could do just that.” Mind you, the same sort of concept in the 1950s didn’t get very far…
RevoPower inventor Steve Katsaros patented his powered wheel in 2002 and has been working on bringing the product to market since 2003. Production wheels will be ready in 2007, says the company website.
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Maybe next they can invent a gasoline-powered pair of pants that move my legs in a walking motion.
How does a device that converts a human-powered machine into a gasoline-powered machine “reduce the world’s dependence on oil”? Similar electric motor-assisted bikes have been available for a while, and how large an impact have they had?
That CEO sounds worse than Dean Kamen.
No worries - with Darwinian forces hard at work, the heltmetless devotees of the RevoPower are likely to become extinct.
Mmmmm…..the gub-mints gunna hafta look inta this. Seems like a guud place ta tax and license an wot not. Mo reb-new ta spay-und on da poke projecks we got hee-yah in Washton. Yeeah, brang it on fellas!
Love it! … I hope they get the price down some. Is it still dependant on gas/oil .. of course it is. But does your vehicle do 200+ MPH?
200+ miles per hour!!?? - not many vehicles do. This here silly contraption sure does not.
240 miles per gallon
Could you possibly make the text on this site a little lighter? I almost managed to read some of your article, and I presume this wasn’t your intention…
CRETIN!
What the hell is wrong with black text?