There are more and more cycling enthusiasts. There are also more and more people who leave their steel horses at home and ride a bike after errands.
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Baidu, which is also affectionately called the Chinese Google, together with the Industrial Design Department of China's Tsinghua University in Beijing, designed a prototype of a self-sufficient smart mountain bike DuBike, which measures your physical activity while riding, like various sports meters, performs the functions of a bicycle counter and still produces its own electricity.
The freshest trend in cycling is smart bikes. We already wrote about DuBik recently, but there are also Valour, Rogue C6,... Even a start-up company from Germany, iCradle, jumped on this train, but came up with a different approach - to turn classic bikes into smart ones. They managed to do this with a "gadget", a COBI mount that attaches to the handlebar, and its spiritus agens is a smartphone (iOS or Android).
For the tech-savvy cyclist, there are a number of smart bikes. Unfortunately, not all of them justify the high price, especially when you have a perfectly good bike at home. Fortunately, there is an upgrade that turns such "ordinary" wheels into a SmartHalo device. Based on simplicity and ease of use, Cyclelabs' circular device combines navigation, an alarm system, a bike light and much more.
Nowadays, we like to see urban transport being efficient and fun. And that doesn't mean it has to be dull and uninspired. As proof that personal transportation can still be cool, Sol Motors presented the Pocket Rocket, which redefines fun on two wheels.
The guys at Nua Bikes are talented engineers who focus on the details in their work, which allows them to design and build stylish and minimalist bikes - the latest is the Nua Bikes Electrica, which has a clean design and allows for electricity recovery.
Believe it or not, BMW bikes have been with us for 70 years, but recently the sports and electrically powered models stand out – the 4th generation of BMW bikes is spacious, but impresses with modern technology and elegant design.