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short twike movie

if you go to this page and click showroom there is a very small twike movie

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electric.mike said:
if you go to this page and click showroom there is a very small twike movie

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If you look at the various dates on the Twike site, they are 2005 and 2006. I checked because it as announced a few months ago that Twike had folded and ceased trading. Not surprising at £20,000 each with NiMh batteries, it was a commercial joke. Either that site is just left over from then which I suspect, or they've risen again.
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The Twike NiMh battery alone is £7000. At 2 x 360V 9Ah it's equavalent to 20 Ezee batteries which would cost a mere £3400, although I would expect a discount if buying 20 at once :rolleyes:

It puzzles me how companies get finance for such ventures when it is so obvious that that there is virtually no market for such a machine at that price, after all it's only a posh 2 seat C5, and Sir Clive couldn't sell them for a twentieth of the price.
 
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Twike revive?

Interestingly a colleague of mine at work was at a kit car show yesterday (Sunday) in Newark and he told me about this 3 wheeled plastic bathtub with a clear screen over it advertising electric vehs, and ezee were there too.
 
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Not the Twike I think John, there's a number of Dutch velomobiles that are like that, the Cab bike for example, but there's more than a dozen makes, and it could have been one of those. One of the daftest things about the Twike was the centre pillar of the windscreen, and I think that would stop it being described as a clear screen over it.

I notice the UK agents Twike had appointed were displaying the Segway, another daft idea, truly a case of birds of a feather flocking together!
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Sorry Scott, but it's certainly not my idea of a good newspaper with misleading information like this about the Forte:

Quote: "A few pedals, a twist of the throttle and the bike boosted into action. Not exactly the speed-boost I had imagined, but a smooth transition towards its electric peak of 28 mph."
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Was his speedometer calibrated correctly? that really didn't look like he was doing 20+ mph along that track. Perhaps he was mixing up kph with mph.
 
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You're probably right Haku, 17.5 mph would be more like it. Either way, not my idea of good reporting.
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As you say Scott, the main thing for us is drawing attention to the subject.

Personally I stopped reading any newspapers in 1973 out of disgust at the general standard of journalism even then. A look at billboard headlines tells me they're no better now, and I'm happier with radio and television news, plus specialist journalism in some subjects.
 
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bad reporting but worth marketing?

Hi Scott

In your desire for "It may get the correct point across and create awareness if we are lucky" are you planning to correct the bad reporting regarding the 28mph? :rolleyes:
 
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