Powered DH bike

[rhinochopig]

Looks like fun.

http://www.derbi.com/int/index.php?option=com_cont...

Wonder if they'll sell them.

[prand]

Wow! A bicycle with an engine. What will they think of next? Maybe they will call it a "motor-bike". Cool!

[coleo]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/m55-electric-mountain-bike-e...

A similar motor powered DH bike, how ever at a silly price tag!

[HowMuchLonger]

rhinochopig said:

Looks like fun.

http://www.derbi.com/int/index.php?option=com_cont...

Wonder if they'll sell them.

40Kg! Bloody hell that thing weighs alot.

Waste of time and money. What is wrong with using gravity for a DH bike.
Can you imagine taking that thing to your local bike shop for a service. Ha ha

And using an air shock on a DH bike that weighs that much.

[Mekon]

plus a stokemonkey



That's do it.

[bigandclever]

Piddly little thing. THIS is what you want...



Yes, that is a pulse jet strapped to the side. Good for 75mph apparently

Google for Robert Maddox pulsejet

[dave_s13]

rhinochopig said:

Looks like fun.

http://www.derbi.com/int/index.php?option=com_cont...

Wonder if they'll sell them.

Derbi marketing toss said:

Always looking at the most current trends in all aspects related to modern man, and especially in those related to anxieties and the need for freedom and individuality, Derbi breaks all the moulds in the world of bikes launching the DH 2.0, a totally new and transgressor concept of a motorcycle that connects directly with the most intimate and pure emotions of today’s young people. Derbi innovates, but always taking the desires of its clients as a starting point.

What a sickeningly scripted piece of marketing blurb...to$$ers.

That bike is $hit btw.

[rhinochopig]

dave_s13 said:

rhinochopig said:

Looks like fun.

http://www.derbi.com/int/index.php?option=com_cont...

Wonder if they'll sell them.

Derbi marketing toss said:

Always looking at the most current trends in all aspects related to modern man, and especially in those related to anxieties and the need for freedom and individuality, Derbi breaks all the moulds in the world of bikes launching the DH 2.0, a totally new and transgressor concept of a motorcycle that connects directly with the most intimate and pure emotions of today’s young people. Derbi innovates, but always taking the desires of its clients as a starting point.

What a sickeningly scripted piece of marketing blurb...to$$ers.

That bike is $hit btw.

I disagree. I think you're missing the point of the concept. Something like the Derbi bike could offer 90% of the fun of a full on MX bike with nowhere near the damage to green lanes. I see it more as a tread lightly MX bike than a mountain bike.

That marketing guff is nonsense though - on that we agree.

[Stig]

Bear in mind the marketing speak will have been translated from Catalan!

I like it - I'd even consider having one having had to sell my 'proper' trail bike due being legislated off the green lanes.

[choc]

i can see that its a bit of a half way house between a DH rig and an MX bike, but i recon that thing would be awful to ride on a DH track, much to heavy to throw around. However, if they advertised it as a 'mini' moto-x bike, i may like it

[carrotchomper]

Trouble is, the legal implications of this clearly haven't been thought through properly- Ride this monster in the wrong place and you'd quite possibly be looking at it getting seized, much in the same manner as a minimoto.

[mk1fan]

I have to agree that the 'bike' certainly falls into a legal black hole. And we all know how effectively our public servants apply common sense.

Nice toy though - if you had the private land on which to play with it.

Now that jet bike does look good.

[G0ldfysh]

not one of these then?

http://www.peirspeed.com/madass125.htm