I take issue with it being called the Antic Bike. It has no pedals. It’s not a bike, it’s an electric scooter. Understandably it’s inspired by minibikes of yesteryear, but how far are we going to stretch the word bike.
Thirty seconds in on their feature breakdown video and the in house design is portrayed as a bonus because everything is custom. What I hear is that everything is proprietary and repair would be a costly endeavour, assuming they even sell components at some point.
It’s revealed further in that any adjustments to braking, power profile, etc, are made using a mobile app. Couldn’t just put the settings in a head unit?
Looks cool though. Makes me wonder if it would do well on the beach with a cooler in the frame.
Yeah, but on the other hand, ICE motorcycles have also been referred to as bikes, so it’s been a longstanding ambiguity with the term.
That means there’s only one word for it.
Pedals are not a requirement. The first bicycles were what you’d call push bikes today, with no pedals.
I suppose you’re right, though while I appreciate that terminology and language in general changes over time, I don’t think it’s right to call something with a motor but without pedals a bike. Along the same train of thought, we don’t call cars ‘horseless carriages’ anymore.
Unlike conventional bicycles, we don’t have people riding about in horseless carriages. It’s a deprecated technology, whereas bikes with pedals aren’t, and it seems wrong to reappropriate the term.
For modern cars, motors are a requirement. If the first horseless carriages made a resurgence, I doubt we’d be calling them cars, since they had no motors.
You mean like a Carriage. Where the term car came from?
My point was more to make a Flintstones joke than anything.
But yes, carriage becomes car. A new term derived from an old one. In this case however, there’s no derivation, only misappropriation. ‘Antic Scooter’ would be more appropriate. Though ‘Two Wheel’ might have been ideal.
is it going to be a death trap like Onewheel?
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