It's a bike> It's a car. It's a BikeCar!

Ramani Aswath

Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 Oct 22, 2024
This is a urban personal transportation concept that marries the convenience of a car with the plusses of a motorcycle. It is stabilised using a gyro and amazingly agile. Looks good too.
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  • PraveenKumar Purushothaman

    PraveenKumar Purushothaman

    @praveenkumar-66Ze92 Feb 23, 2012

    Awesome car... er... bike sir... Superb design... 😀
  • CE Designer

    CE Designer

    @ce-designer-BWq0yl Feb 24, 2012

    I want one 😎
  • saptm

    saptm

    @saptm-HQ4553 Feb 26, 2012

    it's really awesome.Liked it a lot. 😀
  • Tulay

    Tulay

    @tulay-H2I4nQ Mar 1, 2012

    I want it 😡 😁
  • vikaskumar11233

    vikaskumar11233

    @vikaskumar11233-J10JeV Mar 5, 2012

    Hey Bioramani great sharing and I was also confuse to see this combo and I think it should be called "Bi-car" but one question I had that how a person will balance it as it has door then how he will put his leg to control the bike as in video they demonstrate that it will not fall a side I am not sure about this.
  • Ramani Aswath

    Ramani Aswath

    @ramani-VR4O43 Mar 5, 2012

    vikaskumar11233
    Hey Bioramani great sharing and I was also confuse to see this combo and I think it should be called "Bi-car" but one question I had that how a person will balance it as it has door then how he will put his leg to control the bike as in video they demonstrate that it will not fall a side I am not sure about this.
    When the link opens, you can see a clickable ( Transcript ) to the right of the video frame. If you click on this the transcript of the video pops up giving more details. An excerpt is given below:
    Quote:
    "The C-1 is basically like a rolling helmet. So you have a motorcycle that is fully enclosed and the gyros put out 1300 rpm's of torque. It takes a baby elephant to tip it over. It really is un-tippable and you have all the best parts of a car integrated with a motorcycle."
    Endquote
  • vikaskumar11233

    vikaskumar11233

    @vikaskumar11233-J10JeV Mar 12, 2012

    Hi bioramani
    I got your point but I don't think such concept will be actually ok for people or will be safer in road because when car get turn it get lean towards one direction.
  • Ramani Aswath

    Ramani Aswath

    @ramani-VR4O43 Mar 12, 2012

    vikaskumar11233
    Hi bioramani
    I got your point but I don't think such concept will be actually ok for people or will be safer in road because when car get turn it get lean towards one direction.
    Not really. If you study gyroscopes and precession you will know that the axis of rotation angles down to take care of the turning momentum just like the racing cyclists lean towards the centre of turn.
  • vikaskumar11233

    vikaskumar11233

    @vikaskumar11233-J10JeV Mar 15, 2012

    bioramani
    Not really. If you study gyroscopes and precession you will know that the axis of rotation angles down to take care of the turning momentum just like the racing cyclists lean towards the centre of turn.
    Bioramani thanks for telling it in detail but I was just telling my point in consideration what general people think they will not be getting such technical thing.
  • gohm

    gohm

    @gohm-F3UUpP Mar 15, 2012

    Interesting they named it the C-1, which was also the model of a BMW scooter that was enclosed.
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_C1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bmw C1</a>