flying bike

[rojitor]

Technodat has developed this bike, more info here http://www.technodat.eu/

[Miles]

[deVries]

Avatar obtaini um.

[Hillhater]

It will never work ......
..because it has no forks or rear chain stays !

[cal3thousand]

RC motors?

[The fingers]

The Gossamer Condor actually flew! Maybe we need a lipo powered mini gear motor version.

[bluegoatwoods]

When I buy mine I'm gonna see if they'll give me a discount if I forfeited the wheels.

'cause there is now way in the world I would try to ride that monstrosity on the ground.

[Kingfish]

I can see this working perfectly… in a fantasy novel. Dig the landing gear; whimsical.
~KF

[rojitor]

Some render

[rojitor]

Whole video, sorry no subs.

[Kin]

I wish you had made a new account so you could post this with 1 post count :p. Don't get me wrong, it's actually cool though. But I feel I've seen a similar thing once or twice and people are just wimpy ass creatures or weak-ass creatures (At least in terms of being able to fly). There are some ways to do it, just not very fast.

Edit: i see. If i understand it, I guess the idea is to pedal on the ground, but use the motor in the air? I don't know how i feel about this. It does make me think of a paraglider+ mountain bike combo, and if the mountain bike was super light and integrated with a harness that could be cool for faster landing. I just don't know if it's worth it.

[Hillhater]

Ahhh ! .. where would we be without CGI software ?
Where do these guys get their funding to waste time and effort on this kind of dreaming ?
I have yet to see a decent commercial Ebike with a respectable range.. let alone a flying one

PS .. knowing how totally impossible the power/weight issue is with electric flight ...why would you choose one of the heaviest wheel/tire combo's to put on it !
OR... maybe they are not aware of the power/weight issue ?

[Hobbit]

Yeah, the whole electric helicopter AND a bicycle combo is just rediculous unless it's for riding home when your LVC kicks in, but that might be nasty from 300ft up.....Imean seriously, why would superman bother riding a bicycle!

[Chalo]

The Hiller VZ-1 had a 44hp engine in its first small version. The second version had three of the same 44hp engines all working together.

So I wonder where this flying bike's, um, "designer" expects all the necessary power to come from.

Chalo

[itselectric]

Most of us trying to build the fastest and most powerful e-bike, dual motors, etc..

A group of Engineers from Czech are trying to build the f-bike. It run on electric just like e-bike but with four motors. The bike frame looks like Pugsley.



Product designers presentation for the press conference

[amberwolf]

There's already a thread going about this one but I can't find it right now.

[Hobbit]

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[itselectric]

There's already a thread going about this one but I can't find it right now.

Could you please delete the entry? Since it's already duplicated.

thanks!

[parajared]

There's no way you would get me in that death trap. That thing is more likely to plummet and tumble rather than autorotate down to earth. I have flown helicopters and the smaller you go the tougher they are to land in an engine out scenario. You would crash and die in something like that. I have flown an aircraft similiar to the Skike however. The Skike is a bicycle/paramotor and you can land easily power off. Someone did a cross country trip on one, both in the air and on the ground.

[Doctorbass]

A friend of mine sent me this info:

The final concept of flying bike was introduced on press conferece in Prague. Bike is developed by association of 3 Czech companies (Duratec, Technodat, Evektor) and supported by French Company Dassault System.
The flying "maschine" has four main motors (10kW) and one main propeller diam. 1300mm. Weight of bike is 85 kg and maximal weight for flying is 170 kg. Suppossed time of flight: 3-5 minuts

http://www.duratec.cz/de/articles/24-flying-bike/


Look like some also have imagination like us


Doc

[Philistine]

After the Police helicopter made me land, with a straight face I would point the officer towards my Hyena Big Cock sticker and calmly say "But it's only 200 watts occifer".

[ohzee]

lol - looks like something my son would make with gary's mod..

still I believe it if they only exepct 3-5 minutes of flight time.

[TylerDurden]

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[Miles]

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[parajared]

The mythbusters made something like this. The short story is that you need a ton of power for something like this to work, and ton of power= lots of weight. This doesn't have potential to do anything useful.

If you are looking for a flying bike however there is the flyke. I haven't specifically flown the flyke, but I have flown the similiar trikebuggy, and can verify that there is in fact a stable flying bike platform already out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... lnPGbCEak#!