The iPhone-Controlled Visiobike Will Take You For A Ride
Zoom zoom! A Croatian company wants to put your butt onto a new kind of
bike, a sort of electric/mechanical hybrid that uses battery assist to
help you up the hills and includes an automatic transmission system that
ensures you rarely have to use the battery.
Called the Visiobike,
the $5,303 bike is made of carbon fiber and has a dock for your phone.
Special software gives you a speedometer, transmission control and other
treats as you scoot around town. It also has a camera in the seat for
rear-facing views of traffic behind you in real time and for recording
if someone rear-ends you.
Created by Marko Matenda, an entrepreneur and bike lover, the bike also
has disc brakes, automatic safety lights, and a unique 3 minute
recording feature that will show you what happened in an accident. Best
of all, if the bike stops suddenly – and I mean really suddenly – a
built-in emergency alarm will use your phone to contact the authorities.
The feature, needless to say, could be a lifesaver.
Again, it’s surprisingly expensive so you’re going to have to think long
and hard before you drop the $5k+ to pick one of these up. However, it
looks like a fascinating move forward for pedal-assist bikes and
electric bikes in general.
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