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Post by Weakling on Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:16 pm

Here is another page for it.
http://www.magicwheel.org/


"This is an ideal alternative for people who are used to riding skateboards, scooters, and roller blades," said Kevin Johnston, of Magicwheels.

"It is much faster than a skateboard due to the sports wheel and it also goes further on each push of the foot. It will certainly get the user noticed."

Mr Johnston said the £120 wheel is easy to ride and even easier to manoeuvre.


Seems to be licensed to be produced by a company in China?
http://www.madeinchina.com/104787/P162749/Magic-Wheel.shtml

read more here
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/20/nwheel120.xml

they printed that text 23/07/2007 and had it not been for Alexey informing us here I would have no way of knowing.

Post by Weakling on Mon Jan 21, 2008 4:08 pm

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=374717

Four pages of responses and could you find one person taking it
serious? All make fun of it. Very few seems positive about it.

Post by Weakling on Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:32 pm

Jay, wow, Thanks indeed. What a thing. Amazing.

I feel so stupid. Why on earth didn't I come up with such
a clever thing.

Tell the designer he is a genius. Very smart.

Here is one link to an english page on it.
http://www.magicwheel.co.uk/

there they link to a youtube thing too.
And on youtube there are others doing their tricks with it.

I feel so happy. and frustrated me didn't come up with it :)

I spent so many hours trying to invent something along this line.
I'm not a designer that is obvious.

Magic Wheel vs A-bike

Post by alexko on Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:20 pm

I am wondering is anybody from owners of A-bikes has tried to drive Magic Wheel? I myself have A-Bike for 1,5 years it is nice but small wheels or low gear-ratio made it to slow for me. In order to keep desired speed I must to cycle pedals too frequently. Although A-Bike requires no efforts to push the pedals but to turn them over intensively at low speed is unpleasant. Therefore I am looking more agile personal carrier.

Thanks
Alexey

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