Uno electric motorcycle
When Canadian student Ben Gulak returned from a family holiday from China, it was the pollution chocked air and the crowded streets packed with spluttering motorcycles that got Ben’s inventive mind into overdrive…
By designing a electric motorcycle that would run on battery power and placing the two wheels side by side instead of north to south, he would avoid not only pollution but the size of the Uno electric motorcycle would be compact enough to navigate through the crowded streets and be light enough to be carried up stairs. By using a computer and a gyroscope to balance, the bike maneuvers with a shift of the driver’s body – forwards, back or sideways.
Ben named it the ‘Uno’ electric motorcycle and with his passion for engineering and electric motorcycles he has successfully deisigned a electric motorcycle that has lead to him being named at 19 years of age one of the top 10 inventors of the year by Popular Science and has appeared on “The Tonight Show”.
Ben Gulak - Uno electric motorcycle
January 23rd, 2009 at 10:07 am
OK, where do I sign up for one? Sounds fun, enviro friendly, and looks really sweet in a Batman-has-gone-red sort of way.
Can’t wait to try one and answer all my silly questions…
How does it handle? Does it seem natural to someone used to driving a motorcycle all the time, or is it something strange and new? Is it slow like a scooter, or is it as fast off the line as it looks? Strictly single-rider, or does it work with a pillion as well?
February 11th, 2009 at 5:05 am
yo i is be needin like 17 of deez gadjeteers… i pay cash… o’ in other ways…
March 8th, 2009 at 11:14 am
hi ben,
my name is avinash. im a student doin my bba in dubai. im am an absolute bike lover and i reli like what u have made here. even i have a reli interesting idea which i knw will work. the catch is im not a environment concerned and my concept is much more applicable on da track. i doubt that u will help me but im giving it a shot coz i want my concept to be realized and applied. we can create a hybrid version of the concept but its gonna require a bit of work..lemme knw what u think..tc
November 8th, 2009 at 9:36 am
can you buy plans for it??
November 15th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
WOW, haha awsome
December 9th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I WOULD SURELY WANNA RIDE SUCH BIKE BEING A BIKE RIDER.