Yamaha bike distracts you with the web

Posted in Automotive, Concepts, Personal Transport, Yamaha by Conner Flynn on October 15th, 2007

Aside from distracting you with the wonders of the web, the bike can be easily turned on and off using specific cell phones.Some things are meant to be. Peanut Butter and Jelly, Ben and Jerry, Brad and Angelina. And now apparently, biking while surfing the web. I’m talking about the Bobby prototype electric bike from Yamaha motors. Pedestrians will never know what hit them, while you read your favorite blog. Aside from distracting you with the wonders of the web, the bike can be easily turned on and off using specific cell phones.

Some other features you can use when you are no longer impressed with having the web on 2 wheels are: a collapsible seat, fold-in rear wheel, handlebars and footrests making the bike a breeze to store.

The 2007 Tokyo auto show should be a huge success for the company, since Bobby is only one of 19 concept bikes that Yamaha will be showing there. This years theme is the “Art of Engineering”.

It’s just a prototype for now, so we won’t see web related traffic accidents spike just yet. I have to admit, it would cure boredom in slow moving traffic. Let’s just hope any road rage that it alleviates doesn’t translate into a new form of “Web rage”. In the end, any bike that folds is cool.

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