Science and technology news from Hopkinton Independent School

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

NuVinci Bicycle

Fallbrook Technologies is starting to manufacture a bicycle with a "infinite" gears. It is called NuVinci transmission. This transmission works by having ball bearings around a hub that are kept in by a input disc (attached to the chain from the peddles) and a output disc (attached to the rear wheel). The pull handles on the front cause the whole transmission to tilt therefore increasing to a different gear deppending on the amount of tilt. To learn more about the bike click on THIS!

3 comments:

DOM said...

do you know if they are going to sell it soon?

Marek Bennett said...

Dom --

If you scroll down on www.fallbrooktech.com, you'll see a section entitled AVAILABILITY. It sounds like SOME of their products are available (an upgrade kit, for instance), but they're not yet producing entire bikes with the new transmission system.

Markle said...

I think that Fallbrook technologies didn't build the bike,
they just built the transmission.
Ellsworth bikes built the bike.