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Cyberpunk penny farthing. Sweet.

I didn't think anything could be stupider than a Segway. I was wrong.

20kph top speed, 7km range.

Sounds like it's well suited for a college campus or a multi-modal commute but it wouldn't get me from home to work, much less home again.

It is definitely an attention-getter, though.

If those green contrails are real, then I'll totally get one.

The Yiker didn't look too comfortable. Maybe the Yike has a life as public form of punishment for minor offenses.

It has such a small front wheel it seems like to would be easy to fall over the handelbars errr... wheel.

i second what brad said.

This answers the question I've been getting for years while on the unicycle: "Hey, where's your back wheel?"

One really good use for this: It'd be one way to get suburbanites living in their mile-and-a-half-off-the-beaten-path Sprawlville development tract homes out to the main road to catch a bus.

I foresee stranded Yikers begging passers-by for a spare battery, rather than a spare tube or patch kit.

And I'm really looking forward to A) the first hot-rod Yike with the extra car battery and the first bumper-Yike.

I can't stop laughing at this picture...

via somafab

call me a nerd... when my knees stop working i'm in.

I've got a hunch that thing has no torque at all.

Looks pretty easy to fall off of

I second Willie's point...

...although maybe if you put a car bumper on the front it'd balance things out.

robjdlc, I am under the impression that electric motors have lots of torque. Which is why they're so effective in that Tesla sports car. Am I wrong?

it looks like that back wheel would break on a good ole pittsburgh pothole

warranty that shit... once a week

I am thinking it probably has plenty of torque....

All the carbon and aluminum in the Tesla helps too....

riding upright with arms at your sides like that, I would suggest knocking out all of your teeth, now. Buy a butterfly brace for when you break your collar bone. Then purchase the bike.