If Rube Goldberg had been a theoretician, he'd have come up with the OneBike
Here's pretty much the weirdest electric bike idea I have ever seen. It's called the OneBike, and it combines an exercise bike and an electric bike into one. If that sounds ass-backward, read on: it gets worse.
It works like this. At home, the bike folds and fits into a base-station, turning it into a stationary bike. You pedal away and the usual monitoring options tell you how your heart and calories are doing. The twist is that your pedaling also generates electricity, which charges the bike as you work out.
Then, when you go outside, you unfold the bike and ride with electrical assist. The tagline reads "Electric Bicycle with a new charging method that induces exercise."
What? I have a concept for you. It's called a "NormalBike," and it has a special drive system which — as you move your legs and pedal through the city streets — "induces exercise." I think it could catch on.
Why do all the work in the living room (doubtlessly watching Tour de France reruns on TV), but do no work outside? Is it me, or does this make no sense whatsoever?
The only way that Byoung-soo Choi and Jun-kyeong Kim' concept could possibly be justified is if it were shared. Imagine a couple: one is a fitness freak and can never sit still. He charges the OneBike in the evening after a day out mountain biking. His partner, either disabled or just plain lazy, takes the freshly charged bike out whenever he can be bothered to get off the couch and go out for Doritos.
Other than this rather far-fetched scenario, the OneBike frankly leaves me quite bewildered.
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