Think your car is 98.6 percent efficient?

December 13, 2007 on 12:51 pm | In General, Product | No Comments

Of course not, but your bicycle is!  Johns Hopkins U. always seems to come up with some cool studies and facts…..

” When it comes to efficient use of energy, it’s tough to beat a bike.

That’s what Johns Hopkins University engineers learned when they aimed an infrared camera at a computer-controlled bicycle drive train in a campus lab. The camera detected heat generated by friction as the chain moved through the sprockets under varying conditions. This heat represented wasted energy, and by measuring it, the engineers were able to identify sources of inefficiency……”

Read the whole article here 

The Conference Bike is Genius!

July 12, 2005 on 3:01 pm | In Product | No Comments

We love to cycle, and we love talking with friends & other cyclists. Normally we’re doing one or the other, but imagine doing both. We’re not talking about those brief exchanges we all normally have on two wheels, rather a protracted conference while riding.

When Amsterdam-based artist/inventor Eric Staller came to Asheville, he asked around. People sent him to BioWheels.

We’ll let his website give the full spiel, but the implications were evident. 7 people sitting in round-table format while riding a “bicycle” with the road dimensions of an automobile, is about the most fun a group can have on wheels.

We took it all around town, and the cars were forced to give us respect because we were transportation of 7 people. Needless to say we turned the heads of nearly every pedestrian as well.

Will BioWheels own one some day? We’ll need to sell a few more inner tubes before we afford the $14,000 price tag.

You should buy one if … your family or company needs an ultra-healthy conference center.

Reflecting on their 2005 US Summer Tour, Eric wrote…”We Continued On To Asheville, North Carolina, Where We Were Reminded Again What This Trip Is All About: Giving And Getting Joy With The Bike. We Connected With A Bunch Of Warm,intelligent And Enthusiastic People In This Charming Town. Serious Mountain Bikers From ‘Bio-Wheels’ Came On Board And Powered The Bike Up The Steepest Hills We’ve Ever Been On….and Then Down, Faster Than We Have Ever Gone. ”

check out the genius of www.conferencebike.com

check out these great pic’s