Comments on: Matra MS1 – The Electric Bicycle Hybrid http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/01/matra-ms1-the-electric-bicycle-hybrid/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:43:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/01/matra-ms1-the-electric-bicycle-hybrid/comment-page-1/#comment-10974 James Smith João Pessoa, Brazil Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:46:02 +0000 http://www.greenpacks.org/?p=983#comment-10974 The ideas are good and do seem to point to a good technology. But the price will keep it from every being anything but a "rich man's toy". Wait! Isn't that what was said about the automobile and the airplane? Little by little, people will think of improvements in utility and price and these may become common. Although I don't see a problem with a normal bicycle. Cheap, effective, and good exercise. They problem is, most people avoid exercise when they can. Then they pay a health club to exercise anyway. LOL The ideas are good and do seem to point to a good technology. But the price will keep it from every being anything but a “rich man’s toy”. Wait! Isn’t that what was said about the automobile and the airplane?

Little by little, people will think of improvements in utility and price and these may become common. Although I don’t see a problem with a normal bicycle. Cheap, effective, and good exercise. They problem is, most people avoid exercise when they can. Then they pay a health club to exercise anyway. LOL

]]> By: Dan http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/01/matra-ms1-the-electric-bicycle-hybrid/comment-page-1/#comment-4279 Dan Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:10:06 +0000 http://www.greenpacks.org/?p=983#comment-4279 This is just a rebuild of the tidalforce bike that was from the U.S. a few years ago. They were also 3500-5000US and didn't really sell enough the company switched to cars, and last I heard had sold there bike technology to a french company. Pity as sell at this price and only in France this won't last. Given that this story is almost a year old, and after a quick google showed that at least one company in the U.K. sell Mantra bikes (but not this model) they may have given up on this very expensive machine already. This is just a rebuild of the tidalforce bike that was from the U.S. a few years ago. They were also 3500-5000US and didn’t really sell enough the company switched to cars, and last I heard had sold there bike technology to a french company. Pity as sell at this price and only in France this won’t last. Given that this story is almost a year old, and after a quick google showed that at least one company in the U.K. sell Mantra bikes (but not this model) they may have given up on this very expensive machine already.

]]> By: Drik http://www.greenpacks.org/2008/09/01/matra-ms1-the-electric-bicycle-hybrid/comment-page-1/#comment-3684 Drik Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:09:15 +0000 http://www.greenpacks.org/?p=983#comment-3684 I really got to get me one of those I really got to get me one of those

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