Panasonic E-Bike Designed For High-School Students

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http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/03/0...ecifically-designed-for-high-school-students/

Panasonic Announces E-Bike Specifically Designed For High-School Studentsby Serkan Toto on March 2, 2011

While e-bikes are struggling on their way to enter the mainstream in other places of the world, makers in Japan are already starting to segment the market. Panasonic today announced [JP, PDF] the BE-ENSK63 for the local market, an e-bike specifically aimed at “junior high-school students”.

To be sure to meet the needs of the target group, Panasonic asked Japan’s national PTA [JP] for advice. The bike makes it easy for owners to get on and off and is equipped with special LED headlights and tail lights for enhanced security when riding the bike in the evening.

The BE-ENSK63 is sized at 1,800×540mm, weighs 24.1kg and is powered by a 25.2Ｖ-3.1Ah lithium-ion battery that lets owners travel 11/12/17km in power/automatic/eco mode.

Panasonic plans to start selling the bike in Japan as early as tomorrow (price: $1,050).

Yah, like parents and teachers know watt their kids want... Like a 3.1Ah lithium battery...


LocK

 

[torker]

Yeah kinda sad 25 v and 3 ah for 1000 dollars yikes..

 

[LI-ghtcycle]

How many of you think that a kid who got that bike would have it staying at that power? I suspect there will be kids taking that battery off or adding in more to get more power and zipping down the road a lot faster! :wink:

I have to say that frame design has to go! The girls might digg it, but I bet the guys would take the motor and attach it to a BMX or something hehe! :lol:

 

[AussieJester]

How many of you think that a kid who got that bike would have it staying at that power? I suspect there will be kids taking that battery off or adding in more to get more power and zipping down the road a lot faster! :wink:

I have to say that frame design has to go! The girls might digg it, but I bet the guys would take the motor and attach it to a BMX or something hehe! :lol:

Its a bloody gurls bike unless kids have changed alot since i went too school, not one male student
i knew would have gotten near that bike other than to launch it over a berm or jump at the local BMX track
to see how much destruction they could cause. These companies need to be making these bikes appealing to
'students' if they want to sell to thm, hell all thats missing off that bike is the flowers on the basket and grandma
(or Hyena ) pedaling it to the corner store for milk and bread...bout as far as it would make it on 3.ah...long as
the corner store wasn't more than a few blocks of course..

KiM

 

[SamTexas]

The BE-ENSK63 is sized at 1,800×540mm, weighs 24.1kg and is powered by a 25.2Ｖ-3.1Ah lithium-ion battery that lets owners travel 11/12/17km in power/automatic/eco mode.

That's 7.4Wh/mile in eco mode.

 

[fizzit]

Yeah... I wouldn't touch that, even for $250... no one I know would buy a bike that crappy and weird looking for a grand when you can get a car for only a little more. Although maybe I am a hypocrite, considering how much I've probably spent on my bike

 

[Lessss]

Its a bloody gurls bike

No such thing. It is simply a step through frame. When first introduced on the market they didn't sell well because people thought the frame would collapse and BEND. Instead of educating potential buyers they decided to start marketing them to woman as they were lighter and would not bend the frame etc.. etc..

I'm not eating that steak, it's served on a GIRL'S plate!!


Simply put any man wanting to prevent injury to the family jewels is better off with a step through frame. women on the other hand might find a use for a top bar. WELL they gotta do something to whittle away the time waiting for the red light to change.

Besides haven't you noticed top bars are getting lower?

Now this might be a girls bike.
http://thinkcontra.com/blog/vagina-bike/

Next thing you'll be telling me a clitoris isn't a vestigial penis and a prostate isn't a vestigial uterus/Vagina; and that androgen exposure in the womb and later in puberty don't have a greater affect on orientation than XY or XX chromosomes.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2778237/




Maybe if ebikes add a motor to vibrate the seats, then more women would ride them?

 

[AussieJester]

Well...when i was young they were advertised as girls bikes not "step through frame" Reasoning behind the dropped top bar i was informed was so a lady could step through and sit on the seat when wearing a dress.
Another reference we all know is 100% correct <--(sarcasm) Wikipedia supports what i was told when i was a lad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step-through_frame

Not saying i wouldn't ride one now i couldn't give a ratz what anyone thinks of what i do as im sure most here are now aware LoL, but what i'm saying is if they were still viewed as 'girls bike' rather than a step through frame, there wouldnt be a straight high school male around that would want to be seen on it for fear his mates would see him...Bit like the ol saying about moped,
and fat chicks, fun to ride till ya mates find out The whole peer group pressure thing adolescents have to deal with i guess .. :-S

KiM

 

[neptronix]

Now this might be a girls bike.
http://thinkcontra.com/blog/vagina-bike/

Oh, the things women can get away with.

 

[dogman dan]

Bout blew snot on the screen laughing when I saw that bike targeting adolecents as the market. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Not only a girly frame, but one that might appeal to grandma! What rock are those guys living under?

You want to sell to teenagers, you might try making an ebike based on a bmx bike,,,, duhhh. You marketers telling me even todays 14 year old girls want a bike that can't huck a jump? Tune in to the x games sometime ya morons. Asked the PTA for advice????

Well, at least you won't have to lock it up.

 

[auraslip]

Besides haven't you noticed top bars are getting lower?

Lowers the COG.

Girls bike? Yeah.... I'd buy it for my girlfriend. $1000 is a lot for us who buy bikes off craigslist, spend hours fixing them up, by an el' cheapo kit from china, spend hours getting the kinks out, and enjoy the mad max diy look. Considering many bike stores START selling bikes around the $500 mark it's not that bad. Especially if it looks nice, and is reliable. (don't even get me started on the reliability of chinese ebikes!)

 

[AussieJester]

Well, at least you won't have to lock it up.

You might be onto something here DogMan, i recall a thread not so long ago
asking for ways to secure your e-bike, this could be the answer! make it
totally unappealing to the vast majority of the population so nobody would want to
be seen riding it.

KiM

 

[Ypedal]

Justin crossed canada without locking up his bike, aparently only me and Doctorbass asked to ride it of all the people he visited ! lol...

Yeah.. i'll ride anything ! :wink:

 

[gestalt]

One of the things you have to consider is that this is japan we're talking about. The majority of the adolescent bike riders are girls and it seems that it is not uncommon for a young lad to ride the girls bike.

I still wouldn't ride it even being the nipponafile I am. Wouldn't it be great though if instead of buying a car for peoples crotch fruit they bought them a decent ebike?

"when I see an adult on a bicycle I do not dispair for the future of the human race"
-H.G. Wells

 

[amberwolf]

I suspect they are designing it for *Japanese* HS students, which culturally might be a lot different from what we're familiar with here in the USA and elsewhere. I'm not intimately familiar with Japanese culture, so can't really say for sure, but the few Japanese (visiting the USA or living here) I have known both young and old tend (with a couple of serious exceptions) to be much more conformist and uniform, and accepting of marketing trends, than most other people I know.

 

[AussieJester]

Yeah.. i'll ride anything ! :wink:

Yes....Word is your a bit of a slut :lol:

KiM