Trikke Bikes – Carving Vehicles, like Rollerblading on a Scooter
Sunday, August 8, 2010 (updated with video, August 9th)
““Carving Vehicles” from Trikke Tech Inc.”
This is new one on me. Trikke (pronounced ‘trike’) is a three wheeled scooter with flexible axial orientation that allows you to power it like you would a pair of rollerblades. A scooter and rollerblades morphed into one.
You power forward simply by leaning in with your hips – then into the other side, like rollerblading or ice skating. Looks really stable, and unlike rollerblades, with their block drag stop, Trikke Bikes have trustworthy, quick stop, bicycle breaks on the handle bars. OR, you can stop just like on ice skates – with a three wheel side-slide! How cool is that?
Check out this video that Joe T. pointed to in comments last night:
The BVP "Body Powered Vehicle" or Carving Vehicle in action
As well, Trikke Bikes come in ‘power assist’ models.
BVP Electric Hybrid
The BVP Electric Hybrid top of the line "Red Bull"
And a ski version.
The Ski Trekke
And sizes for kids too!
Child sized Trikkes
Prices range from US$120.00 for the basic body powered version up to US$2000.00 for the Delux Hybred Assist model.
Dealerships aren’t set up in Canada yet, but you can buy online.
Update: Sunday August 8th 2010 – 11:49
My bad.
In comments below, Margot pointed to several Canadian authorized dealers of the Trikke. This one is in Toronto:
Canadian Wind Rider Inc.
26 Elfindale Crescent
Toronto, Ontario M2J1B5
416-497-wind (9463)
news@CanadianWindRider.com
Thanks Margot.
mh
Posted: August 8th, 2010
Author: michael holloway
Filed under: Uncategorized
Tags: News, Products | 5 Comments »
http://ww2.trikke.com/canada_index.html
Thanks Margot.
Michael
They’ve got their own YouTube account too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/trikketechinc
Someone said there exists a way of getting immediate updates when a web site makes a brand new article without having to look at it yourself, how can i do that?
One way is called RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
Take the web address of the blog you want to see updates from and add the word “feed/” after the last forward slash.
Paste that into your browser address window and press Enter, you’ll go to a page that includes only the text and tag information from that site.
Now, get yourself a RSS service free download application for your browser that will present that info in an easy to read format. I like the “Live Bookmarks Toolbar” for Mozilla Firefox (http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/livebookmarks.html) which creates a tab row under the address window at the top of your browser. Subscribe to any number of RSS feeds and save them to the toolbar. When you click on a titled tab the most resent posts appear in a drop-down menu – click on any post title link.
Ever since Firefox went to Google Chrome based browser software the browser has become slow (on my computer) – so I’ve switched to Google Chrome – which has no Live Bookmarks application, so I’m back to static bookmarks.
mh