CONCORD, US - Although many have attempted to motorize a bicycle in the past, the company says, none of the solutions have been as elegantly designed as the RevoPower Wheel. Profiled recently in Popular Science, the wheel attaches to a standard bicycle fork like any other front wheel. However, it incorporates a 25-cc gasoline engine boasting 200 miles per gallon, easy installation, light weight (12 lbs.), and intuitive operation with a single throttle/starter interface. The rider can alternate on the fly between engine power and traditional pedalling.
RevoPower Wheel inventor and company founder Steve Katsaros: "We had to pack an engine, fuel delivery, controls, transmission, and a starting mechanism into the 130-millimeter width between standard bicycle fork ends. Additionally, we had to deal with a spinning carburettor and engine, which has never been the case in any other environment.’’
‘’More than 100 million adult bicycles are produced each year, but they take considerable effort to propel over larger distances,’’ according to the company. With the addition of the RevoPower Wheel in 2007, RevoPower thinks that a new lease on life is in store for the bicycle. Of course there have been countless predecessors in ‘powered wheels’, over the years. Slogans like : ‘the wheel that wings my heel’ will go down in history as great examples of poetry…Let’s see where the RevoPower wheel ends up?
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