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Unironically, I would enjoy a bike that I could pedal at a constant speed, charging the battery all the while. Give me a display that indicates my pedaling speed so that I can tailor my exercise and you’ve created a moving stationary bike. I hate having to stop at lights and whatnot, so a rotation-based stabilizer would be nice at speeds below 10 km/h as I pedal the equivalent of 30.
Really, it’s just unfortunate that the engineering doesn't work out for momentum->chemical energy unless you’re biking at a professional level and willing to cruise slowly or charging the battery at home. Bleh
Yeah, same, I like this idea.
If your actually mobile bike can also be used as a makeshift generator, to feed into a home backup battery?
Yeah maybe not huge levels of appeal there, but it is a neat utility feature.
Maybe I've played too many zombie survival games with base building... or, maybe I am aware of the shockingly shitty state of the US power grid.
Also:
If you have a bike, and battery/powerstation like that?
That leads to a potentially amazingly ironic situation where you effectively jump start a dead ICE car ultimately from a fucking bicycle, if you can hook your battery/transformer/power station thing to charge a portable car battery jump starter.
Honestly this would make a great video idea for Tom Stanton.
I love it, and it reminds me of James May talking about using launch control at a zebra crossing