Pedal-powered motorbike!

[Rev. Austin]

This guy's amazing!  When I heard someone had invented a pedal-powered motorbike, I thought "isn't that what a pedal and pop does?" but then it turns out this chap's is electric (so no emissions) and has to be pedalled to actually move!  Here's the vid on the BBC site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8147104.stm

He wants to put the technolgy in SPEEDBOATS! hahahah

[Ed]

Shame it costs $40,000  if it wasn't for the price tag I'd want one.

[Pharosian]

Seems like the price should come down fairly quickly if the thing catches on and it goes into mass production.

[Rev. Austin]

I suppose the price is worth it, in the long run, since you never need to buy petrol, and I'm going to assume that MOTs and so forth would be a lot cheaper with an electric engine having less parts than a normal engine.  I am just assuming on that point though because I'm no mechanic haha

Having said that, though, anything could do with being cheaper 

[Caz]

Sorry, can't believe this one. It magnifies the energy put into it by a factor of fifty...yeah, right...what they do, forget to mention the small nuclear reactor under the chain guard.   

[Ed]

Sorry, can't believe this one. It magnifies the energy put into it by a factor of fifty...yeah, right...what they do, forget to mention the small nuclear reactor under the chain guard.   

Yeah, or you have to pedal it in your garage for fifteen hours before setting off on a two mile journey