It may look like another stealthy e-bike, except for its glaring lack of an obvious drivetrain. Look/Cixi After discussing the benefits of belt drive technology in a recent article, I couldn't ...
For more than 140 years, the bicycle chain has barely changed. Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE), a UK-based recumbent trike maker founded in 1999, thinks it's finally time. ICE has launched PERS ...
Take a closer look at this bike. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. This is indeed a chainless bicycle known as Chainless, powered instead by tungsten gears and what the company calls RTS or Rapid ...
For the last couple of years, French e-mobility company Cixi has been working on a three-wheeled vehicle called Vigoz that's based on its chainless pedaling system. A skeletal prototype has been ...
Pairing dual front- and rear-hub motors, a chainless 'energy recovery' drivetrain, extensive connectivity and a French-made carbon frame, the CIXI Heritage Chainless Altitude is claimed to offer more ...
CeramicSpeed developed its new DrivEn system in conjunction with the University of Colorado’s mechanical engineering department. The innovative crankset does away with the traditional chain drive, ...
We’re all familiar with how regular bikes work, with the pedals connected to the rear wheel via a simple chain drive. This setup is lightweight, cheap, and highly efficient. It’s not the only way to ...