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- I want your clothes, your boots and your e-bike?
Welcome to Weird and Wonderful Tech,
the 2019 Taipei bike show.
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This is the Moto Parilla Ultra Carbon
and it is the most bonkers e-bike I have ever seen
in my entire life.
In here is a 3000 watt motor
which can enable this thing to travel
at over 100 kilometres an hour,
110 kilometres an hour apparently.
And so, when you're going that fast,
you need to be able to stop.
Fortunately at the front, there are
brake callipers with eight pistons
and a 380 millimetre carbon ceramic rotor.
It's mad, absolutely mad.
And if you want this incredible e-bike,
well, it's yours for 17,000 euros.
I kind of want one.
(laughing)
There's loads of weird and wonderful tech here at Taipei,
but you know what I really want?
It's kind of like some glasses that will attach
to my helmet and then kind of like spin round and stuff.
Yeah, just hope someone has invented that.
Yes!
This is a visor that can strap onto any helmet
from a company called Winbees.
And, well to be fair to it, it does have the advantage
of you can wear prescription glasses underneath it
and then still have the benefits
of a sunglasses lens over the top.
It's also very reasonably priced, 65 dollars.
Kind of a neat idea for some people, I guess.
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This is the Cyclo Plus bike computer which you may remember
as we reported on it last time we were here at Taipei.
It's been updated since then, and it's a bike computer
that's aimed at the commuter market.
And apparently, it does everything.
So you've got bike navigation, an HD camera built in there,
LED lights, anti-theft mechanism and even a bell.
It's pretty impressive, the makers have updated it
since then, they've made it smaller, easier to use,
easier to remove off your bike
and there's gonna be a next round of Kickstarter funding
coming soon, so pretty exciting.
Stay tuned for that, it's quite an interesting product.
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Whoever knew pimp my Brompton was a thing?
This is absolutely incredible.
I think this is my favourite bike
that I've seen at the show so far.
It's a stunning Brompton and the Taiwanese company RIDEA
has pimped it and stuck a load of their components on.
I love how they've colour matched all these gold details
all over the bike with the fillet brazing on the frame.
It's absolutely stunning.
And naturally, it has ceramic bearings
in the drivetrain as well.
(laughing)
I never thought I'd see a Brompton with deep-section
carbon Arrow wheels on it either for all those Arrow gains
when you're unpackin' it, gettin' off the train and stuff.
Anyway, this is so cool, I love it, I want one.
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In addition to your standard road bikes and mountain bikes,
there's loads of weird and wonderful bikes
at the show as well.
And a great example is this brand Lowrider
and this is their Cage model.
I absolutely love it, I think it's just so much fun.
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Yeah, this is an e-scooter with a cage for animals on it.
(laughing)
Cruella de Vil's e-scooter.
One of the trends here at Taipei this year
is definitely for e-bikes, there's loads of e-bikes here.
And while there are plenty of sort of traditional e-bikes
and town bikes, there are also a few bonkers ones.
I showed you that one right at the start,
it was completely mad, but this is a Ryuger Regenke
and it's a one off and it's even more bonkers than that one.
So this motor at the back is a 5000 watt motor, 5000 watts!
You can pedal it like a traditional bike and get assistance
up to the legal 25 kilometres an hour.
But because this is a one off special kind of concept bike,
you can actually turn the limiter off
and well, make it illegal, at which point,
it will take you to a frightening
200 kilometres an hour if you want.
It's kind of like a Tesla motorbike, I guess,
but this isn't aimed as a mass market product.
It cost $250,000 to build, but it's a one off.
But the cool thing is, is it's kind of a design study
so you can expect the ideas that have come from this
will trickle down into more consumer friendly
mass market products such as the braking system.
So you've got traditional disc brakes on here,
but you also have a motorised braking system
that can recharge the batteries similar
to that of a KERS system in a Formula One car,
which I think is pretty exciting to see that in e-bike tech.
Nice.
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It's fast.
How can I slow it down?
(laughing)
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This thing's rapid, it's like a Tesla.
Well that's it for Weird Bikes, Weird and Wonderful Bikes.
This isn't even a bike, at the 2019 Taipei bike show.
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