Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
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Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#2This is awesome. But nobody’s going to buy it if they have to drive it sharing the road with hulking SUVs. It’s nearly as dangerous as a motorcycle simply because it is so small and light. The only advantage is protection from the weather.
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#3This is awesome. But nobody’s going to buy it if they have to drive it sharing the road with hulking SUVs. It’s nearly as dangerous as a motorcycle simply because it is so small and light. The only advantage is protection from the weather.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#4This is awesome. But nobody’s going to buy it if they have to drive it sharing the road with hulking SUVs. It’s nearly as dangerous as a motorcycle simply because it is so small and light. The only advantage is protection from the weather.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are:
- You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience)
- You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers)
This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it replacing a small car which solves both of these problems, so it needs to be cheap enough to be a 'fun' second vehicle.
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#5Beware of the 'El Camino' trap.
I had a beautiful '72 El Camino, but it had downsides. As a good friend once said, "It's not much of a car, but it's not much of a truck, either!"
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are: - You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience) - You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers) This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it repla…
Don’t forget the spiders!
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are: - You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience) - You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers) This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it repla…
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Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#8This is awesome. But nobody’s going to buy it if they have to drive it sharing the road with hulking SUVs. It’s nearly as dangerous as a motorcycle simply because it is so small and light. The only advantage is protection from the weather.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
Interesting that they are choosing Los Angeles as the first market, then, since weather isn’t really a factor.
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
From experience, the main issues, aside from weather, with using a motorcycle as your sole means of transport are: - You can't take an arbitrary person as passenger (they need gear and pillion experience) - You can't take more than a backpack's worth of cargo (slightly expandable with panniers) This can't take a passenger at all, and looks like it has the same cargo restrictions. It looks fun but I can't see it repla…
I thought this was the appeal of the 'full touring' bikes from Harley and Honda? Do you still need pinion experience when you're basically in a recliner?
Re: Not quite a car, not quite a motorcycle: a vehicle built for one
#10This is awesome. But nobody’s going to buy it if they have to drive it sharing the road with hulking SUVs. It’s nearly as dangerous as a motorcycle simply because it is so small and light. The only advantage is protection from the weather.
Plenty of people ride motorcycles. Protection from the weather means year round use. Throw in some specialized parking for small vehicles, and you have a winning product
Except the people who ride motorcycles do it for the open air freedom. The high ride and lack of an enclosure also give them superb visibility. This literally none of the merits of a motorcycle and all the detriments, plus all the detriments of a sub compact car.
It's like they distilled bad down into a concentrated form.