This is pretty cool, but seems like a massive waste of time for Tesla.
It's between odd and creepy, not sure where the cool is.
If your reaction to this is that it’s odd/creepy, that says more about you than it does the bike.
Tesla Balance Bike
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Re: Tesla Balance Bike
#12technically this is a hobby-horse, not a bike
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#13This is a balance bike meant to attract the dads who are fans of the brand rather than a balance bike meant to be good for kids.
First the handlebar is too large for small hands and comes with no grips, second the top tube is too wide to be comfortable between the legs and the whole frame is just edges.
If you want a good balance bike look for brands like prevelo [0] or woom [1] who have been designing kid bikes for years.
[0] https://prevelo.com/products/alpha-zero
[1] https://woom.com/en_INT/balance-bikes/self-balancing-bike/wo...
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#14....Why?!
Seriously though. Musk promises self-driving cars, hyperloops, tunnels, and what they actually deliver is... a †balance bike*?! Satire is dead, because I can't imagine a worse self-own.
Same reason the Musk Corporate Universe does everything else: because Elon woke up and thought it would be cool.
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#15Just buy your kid a good quality pedal bike [0], and take the pedals off.
That way they can learn to use the brakes, and when you put the pedals on, they will quickly learn to cycle it. Took my daughter an afternoon.
[0] e.g. https://us.earlyrider.com/products/belter-14-kids-bike-age-3...
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#16No doubt it's just a spray painted OEM product from China.
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#17This is pretty cool, but seems like a massive waste of time for Tesla.
It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle
(That's pretty normal for a car company - many car brands have a lifestyle department).
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#18More kids toys: Cyberquad for Kids
https://shop.tesla.com/product/cyberquad-for-kids?sku=171474...
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#19I feel like most of us could knock this up out of ply with a handsaw and a drill, and 3D print some covers to go over it, in about an afternoon.
Or, you know, spend a tenner on a used one off Facebook Marketplace and a fiver on a tin of spray paint to make it all cool and custom.
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#20This is pretty cool, but seems like a massive waste of time for Tesla.
It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle (That's pretty normal for a car company - many car brands have a lifestyle department).
I was just thinking, I'm surprised they haven't started making ludicrously expensive road bikes with like 9-spoke wheels and oval carbon-fibre frame tubes, and not just bluetooth gears but brakes too because it saves a gram off the frame weight.
The overlap between Tesla arseholes and roadie arseholes is probably considerable.
No, Preston, the yellow lambswool jumper that cost as much as a second-hand Fiat is not making you faster. Take it off, you look like a tit.