Michael Schumacher joins the ebike crowd

[Danos]

Saw this on the local news website...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/5361610/E-bikes-a-hit-with-green-Germans

 

[AussieJester]

I'm posting from a rather small screened mobile phone so might be missing it, where does it say anything about Michael Shumacher ownig a e-bike?

KiM

 

[liveforphysics]

I'm posting from a rather small screened mobile phone so might be missing it, where does it say anything about Michael Shumacher ownig a e-bike?

KiM

It doesn't. It just shows him trying one out.

 

[itchynackers]

His rear tire looks low on air. I'd have thought the pit crew would have taken care of that.

 

[AussieJester]

I'm posting from a rather small screened mobile phone so might be missing it, where does it say anything about Michael Shumacher ownig a e-bike?

KiM

It doesn't. It just shows him trying one out.

uh ha! gotcha i seez it now on PC looks like he's on a race
track also judging by the red/white painted kerb in background
i wonder what track, the Nürburgring ring perhaps? MS the first to ride e-bike on it teehehe...

kiM

 

[Hillhater]

Any one care to name that bike brand ??
..it looks a bit like a Voloci ?

 

[sk8norcal]

www.sev-world.com
(etricks)

 

[sk8norcal]

[youtube]GUfIZl5SM9o[/youtube]

www.e-tricks.co.kr

 

[spinningmagnets]

No info yet on voltage/aH/type, motor make/model, or anything else...

e-tricks is associated somehow with http://www.sev-world.com

http://www.e_tricks.co.kr has a Korean suffix, but the website states the E-scooter (no working pedals) is made in France. It looks like Schumacher was turned on to these by this French F1 racer Romain Dumas:

 

[sk8norcal]

http://sev-world.com/en/range/etricks/specificites-techniques/

84lbs
brushless
48v 16ah
made in France

[youtube]Lufx4luMg0M[/youtube]

[youtube]VQkHjAO-owQ[/youtube]

 

[sk8norcal]

http://sev-world.com/en/10/09/2009/the-production-is-all-go/

 

[sk8norcal]

[youtube]h7mFXdLLSDA[/youtube]

 

[spinningmagnets]

...innovative Brushless DC motor SEV by Leroy Somer without maintenance and high density lithium polymer battery pack by KOKAM...

 

[Miles]

http://www.leroy-somer.com/en/markets/electric_vehicles.html

 

[sk8norcal]

wow! a great endorsement for ebikes...

Here are the first two owners of the Smart ebike, the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula 1 drivers.

Schumacher and Rosberg received the first production units on the Catalunya race track, they will use these bikes in the paddocks during the Grand Prix.

http://www.technologicvehicles.com/en/green-transportation-news/1617/electric-bike-smart-ebikes-for-schumacher-and