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The post last week on the Kickbike garnered quite a bit of attention. Many people left comments and I exchanged emails with a few of them, resulting in a news scoop. From the smoky back room of FBUSA I was told that the following information (and pictures) is yet to go public, but we have been given permission to post it. Enjoy the inside scoop and when you see a bunch of adrenaline junkies hurtling down hill on these things, remember you saw and read it here first.
We got the idea after seeing a link to www.gonzlab.com. And then we discovered there is no standing downhill speed record on a scooter in North America (57mph in Australia). And then we built this one, and then we called X-Games………..and now we are building five more with some slight changes including a steering damper and other soon to be shown goodies! Helmets and Leathers required.
Again, we are not going to sell a gravity version of our performance scooter, but we are going to grab a lot of media with it. We are going to field a team of 6 racers for demo events and marketing—-if we are lucky we will be able to find others that want to have a go at a 3.5+ mile downhill hitting speeds over 50mph.
50 mph is some serious speed. Let’s just hope the frame is sturdy so there is not a repeat of this spectacular wipe out Bren Posted a while back. The carnage takes place around the 45 second mark.
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2 comments for this entry ↓
1 brian // Apr 28, 2008 at 10:03 am
well this wasn’t any kinda mogoscooter that is for sure. moses you gonna try that on your mogo footbike? well get a better face shield for sure. mt. evans maybe?
2 Moses // Apr 28, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Brian—
Good call, we are actually going to build this unit on on a Mogo Scooter frame. That frame is built out of trusty steal, at the very least if we wipe like the guy on this video, then we can just weld it back together! A side note to any scooter bombers out there—–we have never broken a frame of this design—ever.
The frame in this photo is part of our fleet of aluminum racing frames that we use primarily for our ‘road’ training. We also thought it was really nifty to set this up with the Maxxis Hookworm, but it was too slow. We are going to lean out that front end with the best 1.5 slick that we can find—–perhaps get another 5mph out of it……….sez we!
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