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@KingCat12

5 ай бұрын

Your love for weird "cars" will soon make you go bankrupt Robert XD

@ModelA

5 ай бұрын

Excellent!! It looks like a tampon, but without the tow rope.

@737Garrus

5 ай бұрын

Make me, mortal.

@GenBumbleBee

5 ай бұрын

Polestar "worth NOTHING" just saying

@misterquintus

5 ай бұрын

How could you get through an entire video on stupid pedal electric wedge shaped trikes without ONE mention of the Sinclair C5?

I can't believe I bought a Chevy Bolt when I could have spent only $7000 more to get a Twike. I AM SUCH A FOOL

@Firefoxsimp

5 ай бұрын

​@@RobertCraft-re5sfyou are hilariously misinformed.

@Kazzmod

5 ай бұрын

​@@RobertCraft-re5sfbig oil thanks you for your contribution to their coffers.

@brucemitchell5637

5 ай бұрын

​​@@Firefoxsimpyou forgot to mention the best part of owning a EV! You get to exploit forced child labour in foreign countries! Isn't that fantastic? 😂

@Kazzmod

5 ай бұрын

​@@brucemitchell5637so you don't drive anything using gasoline then?

@brucemitchell5637

5 ай бұрын

​@@DTXBrian so is that why ford, Chevrolet, Toyota and many other manufacturers slowing or stopping production of EV's ? 😂😂😂😂😂

"Inside the Twink- TWIKE"

@StxckyBxurritos

5 ай бұрын

you can find that on a different website 😏

@background0001

5 ай бұрын

:3

@tallyshay217

5 ай бұрын

I CACKLED when I heard that 😅😭

@andrewbuchanan3380

5 ай бұрын

AHHHHH HAHAHA

@matheus_ps

5 ай бұрын

i was looking for this comment

Love how the pedalling is not only almost totally pointless but you and your passenger still both get to do it

@glenn7245

4 ай бұрын

With reflective pedals for your safety. Don't forget the safety.... 🙄🙄

0.33 is the drag coefficient of a Mercedes W201 which was incredibly aerodynamic in 1983 when it hit the market.

@calebdavies526

5 ай бұрын

yeah i was thinking 0.33 isnt incredible by todays standards but still pretty acceptable especially for 1998

The blinker audible cues having different sounds for left and right so blind drivers can distinguish the two is a nice touch.

@ChrisBigBad

5 ай бұрын

Muahaha

@anon_y_mousse

5 ай бұрын

I "see" what you did there.

@Delibro

5 ай бұрын

I thought the same ... now I feel stupid to have thought that ...

@Delibro

5 ай бұрын

@@anon_y_mousse Did you really did a pun on a pun? 😀

@Rose-yx6jq

5 ай бұрын

Oh, that's smart.

What incredible ingenuity it is to make a micro-car as terrifying as an ultralight aircraft.

@wendymontie5660

5 ай бұрын

RIGHT?!! My FAA inspector husband HEARTILY agrees!!! When I first clicked on the vid, I said ‘what in the glider-remnants-pulled-from-an-aviation-salvage-inspired-design is this?!?’

@tomast9034

5 ай бұрын

fart in the wrong moment and it ends up in the cornfield....

@jwalster9412

5 ай бұрын

Makes me think of Peter spool.

@deusexmachinareznov4975

5 ай бұрын

Imagine this as a motor glider...

@Cemi_Mhikku

5 ай бұрын

@@wendymontie5660 Okay, so I'm not the only one who was thinking that's what it looks like. It'd probably be a lot more structurally sound if it was just the remains of a glider cockpit, though.

he slipped up and said inside the twink xD im fucking dying rn XD at 1:50

This man has created the best channel of "what was bad then, is still bad now". The amount of work done can only be offset by the amount of humour required to not end up crying inconsolably. Every one of these videos is a gem.

This looks horrifying. I want one immediately.

@ericlee3195

5 ай бұрын

I agree with you on that one.

@kaborefaustin3607

5 ай бұрын

I wish to film the horror

@brookekathryn1980

5 ай бұрын

Same!

@Kazzmod

5 ай бұрын

That really is the motto for this channel

@somerandoonline5852

5 ай бұрын

Your my kind of guy

Twike: when a Robin Reliant and a Sinclair C5 really love each other...

@witchcraftanditsconsequenc4280

5 ай бұрын

I was thinking more of the citicar but y'know

@bytesback.

5 ай бұрын

Surely that would be a SinBin

@Defianthuman

5 ай бұрын

Yeah he must have a secret love for 3 wheel death machines, but yeah I want one. I could go to college and then home for a long time using this on the highway.

@jonholding3880

5 ай бұрын

More like a Bug Bond

@chaos.corner

5 ай бұрын

Took the words out of my mouth.

An ex-colleague of mine "drove" this to work every day so I have seen it a lot. I honestly thought he built it himself and it was a one-off thing, I was really surprised to see it on youtube all of a sudden. I wouldn't have guessed it was this expensive either

The Twike is steered by noticeable movements at low speeds and sharp turns, and by force on the stick at high speeds. You move the stick only a couple of millimeters for most bends. But if you don't feel the centering force at high speeds, it's because the caster ("Nachlauf") is not set right. Then it feels twitchy. Ask Twike GmbH. It had to be adjusted once on my Twike after front tire replacement or so. It makes a huge difference. Most owners don't use the key to lock the stick, it's not really necessary because you can set a PIN code if you like. Cruise control is not activated by double tapping, but by single tapping a short time. I hope you read this, maybe this helps.

I especially like the input method: Corndog Yoke

@jrstoelting

5 ай бұрын

Yes, something that was abandoned around 1900. Definitely need to bring that back 🤣

@agingwheels

5 ай бұрын

I shall refer to the steering as the corndog from here on

@WarrenGarabrandt

5 ай бұрын

​​@@agingwheels It's going to be sad one day in the far far future when KZread shuts down for good, and all these little bits of lore are lost to time. Your great great grandkids are going to be calling their steering sticks corn dogs and they'll have no idea why, or even what a corn dog was.

@Minacious_Shenanigans

5 ай бұрын

@@agingwheels i have autism help

@batterybuilding

5 ай бұрын

@@Minacious_Shenanigansyou should take that autism help and use it to help someone with autism.

Googling Braun portable hair dryer and looking at the vintage ones makes it look like yes, this is defrosted by actual hair driers. Perfect.

@Nate-ip4qo

5 ай бұрын

Not the first time we've seen an off-the-shelf hairdryer used as a defroster either. He reviewed another one of these rare tiny EV cars with one last year.

@Astrophysikus

5 ай бұрын

Yes, Braun is still a well-known brand here in Europe. Nowadays, they mostly make small appliances, like shavers or electric toothbrushes. Oddly enough, they used to make more high-tech equipment until the 1980s or so, in particular HiFi components. Many of them had a very simple and elegant design that much later was a major inspiration for Apple's design language.

@Nate-ip4qo

5 ай бұрын

@@Astrophysikus Braun does the shavers and toothbrush stuff in the US market too.

@tomhsia4354

5 ай бұрын

Not even a tiny car, it was an Electrek Uncar.

@Vfulncchl

5 ай бұрын

Yep, I’ve used the hairdryer

As someone who's worked on some small concept production companies, this is either someone's honest heartfelt dream and vision of the future, a true labor of love. Or a money laundering front for some shady operation. Initially the believers usually pay better but the compensation for being a victim of a money laundering front is immense.

0:54 Also, Human-Electric Hybrid can be neatly shortened to HEH

The use of wood in the interior is incredibly charming. The fear you feel when hurtling down the road in it is somewhat less charming.

@tomslastname5560

5 ай бұрын

it can't be any worse than a bike, and I feel safer on a bike than in a car

@WitoldWitkowski

5 ай бұрын

Now when you get into a crash, they'll be wondering why you have so many splinters in your plexiglass sliced body parts.

@tomslastname5560

5 ай бұрын

@@WitoldWitkowski Airbags and crumple zones are for cowards. We die like men! lol

@SebBrosig

5 ай бұрын

As a cyclist I'm more in touch with the possibility of being wiped out at any time, I'd really have one and use it all the time if it weren't ridiculously expensive

@michaelz6870

5 ай бұрын

​@@tomslastname5560hear, hear!!

You know what it reminds me of... a severed glider cockpit, with wheels!

I owned one of then (#74 from the first batch) when it came to a market. Later I replaced it with the face-lifted version. The Twike III was my way of daily transport for about 10 years. The practical range was about 40 km. I only used it for a couple longer trips because re-charging was not so easy as today. There was a small «Park and Charge» network, but these only hat household sockets with a limited power. A fast charge took about 2 hours...

I ... know those roads ... and um.. the fact that you drive that thing down them with all of their pot holes and undiscovered sunken asphalt - waiting to become sinkholes... adventurous!

@HexFire03lmao

4 ай бұрын

You identify this road? In an empty field? In rural Missouri? Damn lol

This car was 100% designed by engineers, not a single sales person was involved in the process. I love it. Edit for everyone feeling the need to defend engineers: this wasn’t an attack but rather a confession lol

@TheDeveloperGuy

5 ай бұрын

I can assure you, no engineer was involved, but high school students after sniffing glue.

@KillroyWasHere86

5 ай бұрын

Even worse College students with something more powerful then glue.

@daszieher

5 ай бұрын

But it was a very special sort of engineers. I am also an engineer, and I would have died in shame, if I had released the twike to the public. It is utter shite.

@electromaniac03

5 ай бұрын

This thing just looks like a haphazardly thrown together graduation project that somehow got put on the market

@iroll

5 ай бұрын

Yes, engineering students, the most practical of engineers.

Let's all take a moment to sincerely appreciate how many times he's had to say Twike.

@my_channel_44

5 ай бұрын

Twink once. And was more correct.

@Bauerofficial

5 ай бұрын

More than twike. I mean twice.

@RealTalkWithRealLifeJake

5 ай бұрын

I first initially read it as "Twinkie" when I first read the video title

@rayproductionsbackupchanne3862

5 ай бұрын

Uwu @@my_channel_44

@stephenlewis9159

5 ай бұрын

Shame the quad wheel version isn't called the Quake or Qike or something...😂

Thank you... I commuted between home and work on a Lightning P-38 recumbent bicycle for a couple of decades and now I often run errands on my Dualtron Thunder 2 electric scooter. I looked at faired recumbents (including Twike) around the turn of the century... I ultimately decided that I did not want to give up so much garage space plus faired recumbents seemed too heavy to get up a hill on human power alone. The Twike was so spendy and oddball and not all that human-powered and perhaps not street-legal in CA at that time... I think that there was a group of enthusiasts in Davis CA. My wife has happily been driving her plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt since 2014. She plugs in the Volt (like her cell phone) to charge overnight and likes that she only needs to go to the gas station when on road trips. Electricity for the Volt is ~$3 per gallon-equivalent. The electric scooter reportedly goes 500 miles on a dollar's worth of power.

@Cooe.

2 ай бұрын

There's no fucking way your electricity charging costs are $3 per gallon equivalent... Are energy prices in California THAT HIGH?!? O_o

This is the definition of "Unsafe at any speed" including when it is stationary when it is charging (when it was stock).

I drive a Twike since 13 years and love it. The Twike 3 isn't produced any more, the company focuses on the new version. In some cities and at the place I work I can park it on motorcycle parking spaces for free, so I commute to work nearly daily. If the damper is set right once, it's easy to steer. There were around 1100 Twike 3 manufactured. It's safer than it looks, never has been a fatal accident.

@agingwheels

5 ай бұрын

Aw, they're not made anymore? The Twike website doesn't make that clear.

@celus1444

5 ай бұрын

@@agingwheels They stopped production about 3 years ago, but try to have spare parts for as long as possible of course.

@TylerComptonShow

5 ай бұрын

I'm curious how long your commute is and what part of the world you live in. I'm glad there's at least one happy Twike customer!

@MattsAwesomeStuff

5 ай бұрын

Never had a fatal accident? What about all the owners who died of shame? Just kidding... anyone who buys this backwards spermmobile has no shame.

@drippingwax

5 ай бұрын

No fatal accidents yet.

One of the teachers at my school has a newer Twike 3, it has been carried upstairs onto the second floor by a few gratuating students and is absolutely legendary on our schools parking lot.

@John.0z

5 ай бұрын

In the high school I attended, as a bit of fun for the end of their last year, the students a few years ahead of me carried the Librarian's Mini Minor up three flights of _steep_ spiral stars and placed it in the Library! They were facing a certain amount to "trouble" for doing it. But they had to be forgiven... to get them to carry it back down for him.

Hearing that there is more battery building content coming made me ridiculously happy and excited!

My brother in law got one and i have ridden it several times. As an engineer i instantly questioned all the effort and extra weight of the pedal arrangements and i believe the 5 has no pedals or generator pedals only. The steering needs to be more progressive but you kinda get used to it. Certainly a great design approach and despite being hand made the price is ridiculous. My favourite vehicle is the Aptera, another 3 wheeler.

This makes me realize that no matter how bad an idea I have I can create something and there will be a market for it. If this “company” has existed since the 80s, truly anything is possible

@ChrisBigBad

5 ай бұрын

Maybe they are just a strange guy with a funny hobby as a front for a money laundering operation ^

@pauls5745

5 ай бұрын

China wants your bad ideas. they will make your product and sell it on Banggood, AliExpress and Temu

@dashman36

5 ай бұрын

@@ChrisBigBad they are from Switzerland after all

@salerio61

5 ай бұрын

Sinclair C5

@TheDeveloperGuy

5 ай бұрын

There are a lot of university projects, munching on scolarship, sponsor and state money. This is probably one of them.

I have a neighbor who has one of these. He manages to get around in Switzerland without any issues on the normal roads and up mountains too. A totally crazy car with an insane cost. Welcome to the economics of Switzerland and nearby Germany!

I love you being a realist and keep its use around your property or the back of beyond. Interesting concept.

Great job on the video! Thanks for making it.

I live in Munich, Germany. About 10 years ago i regularly saw a guy driving a Twike on the Autobahn. His licence plate was from a town about 35 miles away from Munich. Driving a deathtrap this slow on the Autobahn is just nuts…

@opedroefeio

5 ай бұрын

Freising?

@Huebel01

5 ай бұрын

@@opedroefeio Rosenheim

@NunoVippan

5 ай бұрын

Rosenheim to Munich in that thing? I think we have just found a new extreme sport. If you find a way to film this for me from 3 angles (including one overhead shot), I will pay you TV rights. 😀

@MisterFribble

5 ай бұрын

@@NunoVippan I'd pay to see it too! I don't even know where Rosenheim is but any amount of distance in this glorified little tikes car is a feat.

@Windows98R

4 ай бұрын

I can just imagine the fear you feel as a RS5 or a M3 flies by at 200+

To get a sense of how much pedaling might be adding to the Twike’s range, I have an anecdote. I recently added an internal gear hub to my previously single speed e-bike, adding about 7lbs of rolling weight in the process. I now get a workout on my commute! My battery state of charge at the end of my 11 mile roundtrip commute went from typically being 55% to 56%.

@Matticitt

5 ай бұрын

😂

@John.0z

5 ай бұрын

That sounds about the level of assistance I provide to my ebike! I do try to just pedal, without assistance, along the level parts. Surprising my speed tends to fall off when I do so. 🤔

@keeganwebber

5 ай бұрын

that makes sense if you're achieving the same average speeds, your aerodynamic profile hasn't changed so the power input needed is identical.

I recall the Twike2 or a similar thing, from my childhood in the Netherlands. As a kid we were taking part in this walking event, that connected 2 local towns. There was one guy driving a sleek looking thing much like the Twike2. I was totally awed by the speed of the thing, racing by, driving in both directions along the people walking the route. And then about an hour later, similarly shocked by the expression on the guy's sweaty face, while creeping along, as apparently the battery had run out.

Phenomenal video. So glad the upgrades have been recorded so we can see what it took to get it to this point.

"And now I can tell you I paid $5,000 for this one with a dead battery and it won't sound expensive anymore." Nope, that's still too expensive.

@siraff4461

5 ай бұрын

Sounds about $5,001 too much.

That clicking of the braking pawl would drive me nuts

Love it. I've been aware of Twike for about 20 years and I've always wanted to try one. No chance I'd buy one though. Perhaps in a world where all personal transportation was some variety of this, it would make more sense.

The cockpit control ergos are bizarre but very handsome. I especially love the look of the flip up brake handle / control panel. And the center console is very ST:TNG (kids toy version)

yes those braun "defrosters" are literally hairdryers

The Twike !! Unbelievable. The year I graduated highschool - i.e. nearly 30 years ago - , our neighbor's landlord got one, and was proudly showing it off. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. We even got to do a lap around the block in it ! Congratulations !

I love the Mark V Monorail. Looks great

I probably rewatched the horn demo about a dozen times. Thank you.

Yes, they are normal commodity Braun hair dryers, have a black one like that in a drawer somewhere xD

Walks into Twike dealership "I want to be dead within the hour!" salesman: "have we got a deal for you"

Hell yeah that looks like a great project and a sweet result!

The reverse pedal brake ratchet is a bit of genius. Thanks for sharing!

The moment you said "mahogany" I knew you made that piece lol.

imagine hitchiking and thats what stops to pick you up

@CampGareth

5 ай бұрын

"I'll give you a lift but you'll have to pedal" ... no thanks, I'll wait for the next vehicle, hopefully it's at least a car

@tims8603

5 ай бұрын

I would pass.

@BeeJay120

5 ай бұрын

At least it's better than what Mr. Bean got (Mr. Bean's Holiday).

@Okurka.

5 ай бұрын

@@BeeJay120 Mr. Bean owned a McLaren F1.

EV, efficiency and bicycle enthusiast here, and even I had never heard of the Twike. Amazing. Can't wait to see the build video!

I test drove one of these back in the day. You can't forget that these were one the earliest electric vehicles around back then.

Good God, I would not want to handle a steering tiller one-handed while pedaling.

Its a Sinclair C5 1/2. The main advantage is that when you die, you don't need to buy a coffin - they can just bury the whole shooting match without extracting you so it's eco -friendly.

@mig7287

5 ай бұрын

😂😂

@DuncanEllis

5 ай бұрын

the C5 was exactly what I thought of

@MrDuncl

5 ай бұрын

@@DuncanEllis Clive Sinclair had intentions to graduate from the C5 to vehicles like this. There are artist impressions of them. The losses on the C5 and QL computer put paid to that idea,

@DuncanEllis

5 ай бұрын

@@MrDuncl that doesn't surprise me, tbh. I had high hopes for the QL, but the market had moved on - a hobbled machine wasn't going to sell. For myself, I ended up buying an Archimedes instead.

@volo870

4 ай бұрын

Sinclair C5 is awesome. Why so much hate?

This is exactly the kind of video I would expect on this channel when new years resolutions come out.

Subbed. What a hilarious review. Just too dang funny to miss out on any videos from now on.

“Exercise Suppository” 😂

"Human-Electric Hybrid" or 'Electric Chair' as they used to be known 😂

Such an awesome little machine! The temptation is to build my own, however using an all wood approach (wood is a lot stronger that you think, and has the advantages of ease of manufacture, and ease of repair). Fit one of these with a GX 160 lawnmower engine ( 4.8HP continuous), and it becomes a very useful and weather-tolerant small commuter machine.

@peytonmac1131

5 ай бұрын

How would you make it road legal? Can you get a license for a car you build yourself?

That steering looks very precise !

There's no part of this that I don't relate to. Well done, sir. "This'll take this long!" Ah, the lies we tell ourselves.

@mrgw98

5 ай бұрын

"We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy."

1:47 "inside the twink- twike" 😆😆

Excellent vídeo as always

An unbelievably unique and quirky vehicle that is absolutely amazing. Love it!

I'm not sure how else to say this but I live in Switzerland and these are sadly popular here. I live maybe five minutes away from a shop that sells a whole bunch of these bike-car hybrid things - for anyone interested in racing it's allegedly very close to where the former Swiss F1 team was headquartered. They, along with other covered bikes and extremely small electric cars, are very popular here, especially among retirees somehow. They drive me crazy because they all look like Walmart ride-on shoppers for me!! Not that anyone in Europe would understand that connection lol. I live in the absolute middle of nowhere for Swiss standards and yet there are people riding these up and down hilly country roads. I am happy to answer any questions anyone might have because my gosh is this ever the crossover of the century for me haha.

@agingwheels

5 ай бұрын

Wow. Maybe I just don't understand the target audience for these

@djhakase

5 ай бұрын

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The Twike."

@scout8145

5 ай бұрын

I could see it! I just posted another comment about how this seems like it could be really accessible to people with a lot of different disabilities, but it’s imperfect at any of them, because it’s expensive and terrifying. But if you’re a disabled retiree with money to burn who wants to experience the fear of God, this seems like a perfect fit.

@sirBrouwer

5 ай бұрын

I am amazed that I don't see them here in the Netherlands. you do see the people use the velomobiel (ore banana bikes). I mean if done well they could make so many it would be possible to build them cheaper.

@CCaleighC

5 ай бұрын

I'm not too sure I get the appeal either haha@@agingwheels. They were the only option for eco-friendly cars for a LONG time here, and there is this culture of people wanting vehicles that are more than bikes but less than cars... but in 2024? Just get a Twizy, Microlino, or an electric bike! Like come on haha.

My fiance is probably very tired of hearing me say "I want this stupid fucking car"

@drewzero1

5 ай бұрын

Every single Aging Wheels video! (Also Garbage Time for me 😂)

@mgkleym

5 ай бұрын

@@drewzero1 I need a tony in my life.

@drewzero1

5 ай бұрын

@@mgkleym Don't we all! For a while I had a Grand Marquis that was a lot like Jeff, but not as smelly.

@906MediaProductions

5 ай бұрын

One came up for sale near me very cheap and I was so close to getting it but someone else had better nugget radar than me. ​@@mgkleym

@thaddeustroyer

5 ай бұрын

Well, I hear is selling... and he was concerned about finding a buyer, Ha!

Dont forget to point out when a trike has the single wheel in front, braking and turning at the same time becomes a fond memory.

Granular. I learned a new meaning for this word today. Thank you. ☮

You had me at weirdo

Yay! Twike! I’ve been looking at these for years and am very excited you are putting one on video. Having watched this, I’m convinced anyone with a brain could build a more stable and sensible version of this. It’s the perfect car for this channel!

@waragh

5 ай бұрын

In norway they are doing something like this, 4 wheels weatherproofing electric. but only 25 km assist because it is a bike. it called podbike.

@Jehty_

5 ай бұрын

​@@waraghthe type of vehicle like that is called Velomobile.

@talyrath

5 ай бұрын

They might not actually be able to... A tricycle has a weird stability paradox. You can make the steering stable (I.e. make it want to go straight) but that increases the amount that it leans and wants to fall over in a curve. Or you can make the stance stable (like a tripod) but then you get zero steering feedback or desire to go straight (like a tripod on casters). This is why there are no 3 wheel ATVs sold in the US anymore. It's physically impossible to make them safe once you get past a certain speed.

@lillexus5589

5 ай бұрын

​@@talyrathnow imagine the fact that in the UK they sold 3 wheeled vehicles that could drive highway speeds, even up to 140km/h

@kmoecub

5 ай бұрын

@@talyrath Trikes are much better when the single wheel is in the back.

I have always loved the twike. It is fantastic. Scary, yes, but it is a great velomobile like thing.

Hearing the ticking when you started, I was waiting for the bomb 💣 to go off💥.

To compare vehicles, it is important to take the drag coefficient and multiply it by the frontal area. If you just want to compare drag confidences alone, then you sold yourself short with the Rivian. The Airbus A380 has a drag coefficient of ~ 0.022!

@drippingwax

5 ай бұрын

I wonder if a boat tail would extend the range or if ten pounds of foam and fiberglass would be too much.

I grew up in Vancouver, I had a full season pass for Expo '86. The focus of that World's Fair was transportation ("Expo '86: A World In Motion"). I do not remember seeing the Twike, though that photo drifting across screen at 2:34 is definitely a photo of Vancouver's waterfront. Things I do remember: Steam Expo because trains are cool, the Japan Rail MAGLEV demonstrator because trains are cool, climbing the concrete sculpture that was like a rolling ocean wave but a section of highway with many modes of transport on it, opening day on SkyTrain which survives as Vancouver's metro system, the lenticular cargo airship that was going to revolutionize mountain side logging ANY DAY NOW, the "Expo Ernie" robot-in-a-spacesuit mascot, and the life size model of a Salyut space station in the Soviet Union pavilion. Canada's national airshow is in Abbotsford just east of Vancouver, and that year we had air demonstration squadrons from USA and France and Italy and Brasil, we had Soviet cargo planes, one of those weird British bombers, an SR-71 on the ground, we had Concorde flybys, it was a wild time.

@darrellstephen3085

5 ай бұрын

I saw it at expo. For me it was extra cool looking.

Seen your specific one you bought on facebook marketplace last year. forgot you bought it. pretty cool

The twike was for many years the most efficient "car" on the streets in switzerland. The owners I know love it and there are even fanclubs and events around it. Sadly even the price of used ones is very high compared to e-bikes. For a sensible country like Switzerland where people don’t drive silly oversized pickup trucks it makes totally sense. Safety wise its much safer than you might think. The batteries are between the rear wheels which make rollover almost impossible. A friend of mine got in an accident with a tram. The twike took hardly any damage and the driver was ok. Since its top speed is about 50mph it might not be invoved in a high speed crash

My last 25mi bike ride I averaged 15mph, and over that my average power was 143w. There are certainly hills that I'd take that 9kw boost on though.

@agingwheels

5 ай бұрын

I'd probably average more like 50W. And not be able to complete the journey

@Bob-nc5hz

5 ай бұрын

@@agingwheels FWIW back during the 19th century when human labour was a significant source of power it was estimated that the average labourer, healthy and well fed, could sustain around 75W over the entire work day. Peak human power can obviously go a lot higher, top-tier cyclists can sustain 400W for an hour, and can burst above 1kW.

@qlum

5 ай бұрын

There is however a difference to biking and this, the position you are in, you can put more energy into peddling this way than on a normal bicycle.

@MattsAwesomeStuff

5 ай бұрын

People were a lot smaller in the 1800s. Average non-athlete but not-overweight guy today can sustain 100w continuously. Olympians are like 175w.

@drippingwax

5 ай бұрын

Can Olympians put out enough power to make toast?

I have one of these in my neighbourhood in Switzerland... it's unusual to say the least

another absolute awesome video :) , i love the plastic bomber ~

i remember seeing one of those around for quite a while about 10 years ago, may not be exactly the same model, but extremely similar, was in switzerland as well, so yea, that checks out. after looking for them, there actually are a few for sale here in switzerland, some with well over 100'000km on them, crazy...

I don't think security is really something I would worry about. Only way someone would probably steal it is if the person is either drunk or stupid.

@batterybuilding

5 ай бұрын

Good thing there are no drunk and/or stupid people in Missouri. 😂

Hooway!!! The Twike is "done"!!!

Truly enjoyed this one.

I grew up seeing one of these parked somewhere on the streets of my village in Germany a few times a week. I never met the owner, but it always made me wonder what driving one must feel like. Now I know.

If you want to use the pedals more efficiently, you should move the seat back quite a bit (if that was even possible), the leg should be straight to almost straight when a pedal is the farthest away from you. I also wonder if it would even be possible to make it feel better on the road, like a steering wheel conversion. If you were to put a motor from a dead coda in it, it would probably make for a fun, but very lethal car.

@HarryLovesRuth

5 ай бұрын

Scrolled until I found this comment. The lack of leg extension was making me crazy. Granted I ride for transportation with my saddle a little low so I can get a foot on the ground quickly. But still, my legs were cramping in sympathy.

@HarryLovesRuth

5 ай бұрын

Scrolled until I found this comment. The lack of leg extension was making me crazy. Granted I ride for transportation with my saddle a little low so I can get a foot on the ground quickly. But still, my legs were cramping in sympathy.

@nobodynoone2500

5 ай бұрын

By the time you fix the issues, it will have 4 wheels and a steering wheel. Aka, not a twike.

Looking forward to your battery video. I am one of the other few people that owns a twike(tw240) and it has a dead lithium factory pack and I wanted to swap it for one with a proper BMS. So I might build the same pack you have.

@alexmacdowell5518

5 ай бұрын

Is that the one that was in the Neiman Marcus dream Christmas catalog?

@greggv8

5 ай бұрын

I'd go for lithium-iron-phosphate. Unlike lithium-ion you can use 80% of the rated capacity.

They are quite common in Switzerland. You can see them all the time in the cities and suburbs.

So, I live in Switzerland and someone in my village had one of these. I've moved away a while ago so my memory is kind of foggy but I can faintly recall seeing him ride it on a two lane highway into the next town once. He also had one of those dinky looking Aixam electric cars that look like a knock-off Smart Fortwo.

This man is singlehandedly responsible for "non-zero chance" being a phrase I use pretty much wherever it's applicable.

@pressureline5320

5 ай бұрын

It really is a phrase that you should use even if it's not applicable.

@NotTheStinkyCheese

5 ай бұрын

@@pressureline5320 you mean that there should be a non zero chance of using that phrase even when it isn't applicable ? ;)

@aarocka11

5 ай бұрын

I heard the phrase “significantly non-zero” used by a guy named Deviant Ollam years ago when he gave an infosec talk. One of my favorite phrases.

@rh4009

5 ай бұрын

@@aarocka11The non-zero chance is an old expression I've heard and used for at least ~20 years, but "significantly non-zero" adds a much needed degree of non-zero-ness. Thanks for mentioning it!

I live in Germany and have seen these on electric car forums and marketplaces before. I really like the idea (and the quirkyness), and I would maybe have bought a used one if they werent so expensive. So its very cool that you now have one and can tell us what we miss out on. A vehicle I almost bought is a city el / mini el. They are even smaller and dont have any pedals, but they are more affordable, somewhat easy to work on and they can be registered as a "moped car", so the top speed is limited to 45 kph and a few other things. That means that, with a moped license you can, starting at age 16, drive it ( You need to be 18 to drive a car in Germany ). You also dont have to pay vehicle tax, you only buy insurance and they will give you a new plate every year. And you dont have to do any technical inspections.

Thanks to the video and Stay safe ✌️.

I see one of those around here sometimes and now I finally know what it is! While it's and inherently pretty ludicrous vehicle and WAY too expensive, I still find it kinda neat. There's a decent idea there under all the silliness.

Can't wait for the build series, I wish there were more of you so you could do more videos, I love your content so much. It's so quirky which suits me perfectly! Keep up the amazing work and thank you for all the content you do make.

@agingwheels

5 ай бұрын

If there were more of me, I'd just distract myself and not get anything more done.

@drippingwax

5 ай бұрын

There were two Arnold Rimmers once. Nothing good came out of it, except Dave Lister's entertainment.

@no1DdC

5 ай бұрын

@@agingwheels Have you considered trying to find a CityEL as your next weird electric three-wheeler project? It's far cheaper (roadworthy examples sell for about as much as you paid for your broken Twike) and easier to find too, at least if you're willing to import them from Europe - and as an added bonus, it does not have pointless pedal. It even comes with both a steering wheel and a roll cage, making it perhaps 0.5% less deadly (it was crash tested and deemed as safe as a small car of the 1980s against static obstacles, but I haven't found this test yet). I haven't driven it either, but it looks far more competent than the Twike while still being delightfully weird and futuristic in a low-budget '80s direct-to-VHS sci-fi flick kind of way.

Looks like it could REALLY use some kind of dual ratio steering. Center set to low ratio, so it isn't so terrifyingly twitchy, and outer edges higher, so you can made a tight turn without punching someone lol.

@NBSV1

5 ай бұрын

Or, could just mount a wheel or even yoke. They moved away from tiller steering long ago because it’s so hard to control and the short range of motion makes it twitchy.

@Nevir202

5 ай бұрын

@@NBSV1 Assumed the tiller was used for a classification reason, like if it had a wheel it would be classed as a car, with all the regulation thereof. But sure, if wheel is an option, that would be best.

@nobodynoone2500

5 ай бұрын

@@NBSV1 And then add another wheel for stability, remove the pedals and... oh.

A 5-speed internal-gear hub for a vehicle with the speed range of the Twike seems more than a little bit silly if you're actually interested in the human power input. Seen as engines, us humans have a fairly narrow pedaling RPM range (cadence in bicycle-speak) where we have reasonable endurance and efficiency. With only 5 gears to choose from, you're up against a fairly hard compromise about which section of the speed range where you want to be able to add your power to the propulsion. It's reasonably easy to shift this section up/down the speed range. But basically you'll still be left either straining pointlessly at low speeds or spinning out at high speeds. If ypou want to be able to add human power at every speed, it'd either take a fairly serious redesign of the parts using bicycle technology or going to a setup where pedaling charges the battery instead of providing direct drive power.

Love your Twike and love your work!

I first saw a Twike in Interlaken Switzerland in 1998, possibly that one. As a human powered vehicle owner and enthusiast, I recognized then that it was built backwards. In the world of HPV's if there are three wheels, you want two of them in front. That complicates the steering apparatus while making it less twitchy. It massively improves the stability and the smoothness of the ride. As to the Twike's lack of a heater, the Swiss may want that hothouse on wheels of a glass top for their climate, but in more southerly climes the "door" should open the other way or at least lift and move forward on an unequal parallelogram to open. That way it can scoop air while riding with it partly open..

Definitely an interesting vehicle. If I were to redesign one, I'd definitely ditch the delta layout and put two wheels forward for stability and to enable some proper steering. Change the body from a cheese wedge to a teardrop, and voila! Better Twike. All that's left to do is use completely different components so that it isn't a complete electrical nightmare.

@davidjulian8536

5 ай бұрын

You could call it "Aptera".

@Kattbirb

5 ай бұрын

@@davidjulian8536 I certainly could. ;)

@kaasmeester5903

5 ай бұрын

If I were to redesign one, I'd focus on bringing down the price. For the price of a Twike 3 with the largest available battery, you can buy a top trim Kona EV or a Tesla 3, both with more range than this thing. And those vehicles come with Satnav, entertainment system, heating and aircon, fast charging, airbags, cruise control. and so on. It's an interesting runabout. But for what this is, it shouldn't cost more than €15k - €20k.

@MrDuncl

5 ай бұрын

@@kaasmeester5903 It seems very poor value for money compared to the Citroen AMI. I guess that difference is that the AMI is mass produced in low wage Morocco.

@peytonmac1131

5 ай бұрын

Problem is that if you put two wheels at the front and one at the back, it would probably tip over with only one rider. The weight distribution looks like it would only work with two wheels at the back, unless the driver sits in the middle.

Nearly perfect video. The only thing missing is I wish you'd had a friend you convinced to ride along with you, because a Twicycle built for two is kinda sad with only one person.