Technology

[DoWhat]

Called SHIFT, it slowly transforms from a tricycle to bicycle configuration as the rider pedals faster, then returns to trike formation as the rider slows down.

Damn kids have it way too easy these days.
Learn to ride a bike the real way.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/29/trike.bike.ap/index.html

 

[cholo]

Damn kids have it way too easy these days.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/29/trike.bike.ap/index.html

Take comfort in knowing that any kid riding that thing will look like a dork.

 

[Lenny]

Damn kids have it way too easy these days.
Learn to ride a bike the real way.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/04/29/trike.bike.ap/index.html

This is designed for the more mature rider obviously. When riding into the city you can really pick up the speed as a two-wheeler on the open road, and then have more stability in three-wheel mode when traffic slows down (or you do because you're so winded for being out of shape).

 

[DoWhat]

This is designed for the more mature rider obviously. When riding into the city you can really pick up the speed as a two-wheeler on the open road, and then have more stability in three-wheel mode when traffic slows down (or you do because you're so winded for being out of shape).

Did you read the article?
It was designed so the scared little kid won't fall and scrape thier poor little knee.

He and recent Purdue design graduates Matthew Grossman and Ryan Lightbody traded childhood memories of looking back frantically at their father or mother after they sent them on their way on initial solo rides.

"That was the common thing -- looking back to see if your dad is holding your seat, and having that fear of crashing or falling all the time while you're riding," said Shim, an assistant professor of industrial design whose 4-year-old son is at the tricycle stage.

 

[Lenny]

Did you read the article?
It was designed so the scared little kid won't fall and scrape thier poor little knee.

Yes, read the article and saw that it's not yet in production The Koreans will quickly see that older Americans will want this. It looks a whole lot cooler than those overgrown tricycles the blue-haired little old ladies park at the supermarket today.