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Magic Wheel vs A-bike

Postby 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
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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.
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