Chainless Bike is One Sweet Green Ride
Posted By Edward Van Valen On May 5, 2010 @ 4:30 pm In Green Transportation | 2 Comments
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Look Ma – no chain! Christian Vollmer, an industrial designer from Germany, has created an urban electric bike [5] utilizing a pedelec system, meaning it has no need for a chain. Instead, it has a toothed belt which transfers clean power [6] from the engine to the rear wheel. And it looks pretty darn snazzy too!
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To save space, the entire system is housed between the peddles quite elegantly and unobtrusively. With everything in such a neat package there is little to mess up that neatly pressed suit on the way to a big meeting. While this clean form of transport [8] for the urban go-getter is only in its concept phase, we can easily envision people zipping through the city streets atop all its chainless glory.
Via Yanko Design [9]
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